Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Euromov, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, Vermont, USA.
Stress Health. 2024 Oct;40(5):e3464. doi: 10.1002/smi.3464. Epub 2024 Aug 14.
Purpose in life is an aspect of well-being associated with less subjective stress. The present research sought to expand this literature by testing the association between both dispositional and momentary purpose with stress in daily life using a micro-longitudinal study design. Participants (N = 303) reported their dispositional purpose at baseline and reported their momentary purpose and stress three times a day for 8 days. Between-person, dispositional purpose was associated with less momentary stress across the 8 days tested with linear regression (β = -0.29, 95% CI = -0.39, -18, p < 0.001); it was unrelated to variability in stress (β = 0.05, 95% CI = -0.05, 0.14, p = 0.310). In contrast, the within-person analysis tested with multilevel modelling indicated that in moments when participants felt more purpose-driven than their average, they felt more stressed (b = 0.09, 95% CI = 0.06, 0.12, SE = 0.01, p < 0.001). This association was slightly stronger among participants with relatively lower dispositional purpose (b = -0.04, SE = 0.02, 95% CI = -0.08, -0.01, p = 0.032). This study replicated the negative association between dispositional purpose and subjective stress when stress was measured at moments in daily life. It also found that feeling more purpose-driven than usual in the moment is stressful, a counterintuitive finding that, if replicated, suggests that striving for purpose can be stressful in the moment, even if feeling more purposeful in general is associated with lower stress.
生活目的是与主观压力较小相关的幸福感的一个方面。本研究旨在通过使用微观纵向研究设计，测试在日常生活中与压力相关的性格目的和瞬间目的，来扩展这一文献。参与者（N=303）在基线时报告了他们的性格目的，在 8 天内每天三次报告了他们的瞬间目的和压力。个体间的性格目的与 8 天内的瞬间压力呈负相关（β=-0.29，95%CI=-0.39，-18，p<0.001）；它与压力的变化无关（β=0.05，95%CI=-0.05，0.14，p=0.310）。相比之下，使用多层建模进行的个体内分析表明，在参与者感到比平均水平更有目的的时刻，他们感到更有压力（b=0.09，95%CI=0.06，0.12，SE=0.01，p<0.001）。在性格目的相对较低的参与者中，这种关联稍强（b=-0.04，SE=0.02，95%CI=-0.08，-0.01，p=0.032）。本研究复制了在日常生活中的时刻测量压力时，性格目的与主观压力之间的负相关。它还发现，在当下比平时更有目的感会带来压力，这是一个违反直觉的发现，如果得到证实，这表明即使总体上感到更有目的感与较低的压力相关，追求目的感在当下也可能是有压力的。
