Does Your Life Have Purpose? The Answer Could Affect How Long You Live.

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▼ Having a strong purpose in life may have not only mental benefits, but also physical ones.
A new study suggests that purposeful living is linked to decreased risk of early death in those older than age 50. The new results were published Thursday (May 23) in the journal JAMA Network Open.
A group of researchers at the University of Michigan analyzed data from nearly 7,000 people older than 50 who were enrolled in a national study that began in 1992 and who filled out a psychological questionnaire in 2006.
Participants were asked to rank how strongly  they feltabout statements such as "I enjoy making plans for the future and working to make them a reality" and "my daily activities often seem trivial and unimportant to me"; the people were then given a "life purpose score." The researchers then compared these scores with mortality rates of the participants over the next five years. During that time, 776 of the participants died.
Participants with the lowest life-purpose scores were more than twice as likely to die during the follow-up period, compared with participants with the highest life-purpose scores, the study found. In particular, those with lower life-purpose scores were more likely to die from heart or blood conditions.
The findings held even after the researchers took into account certain factors that could affect people's sense of life purpose or their risk of death, such as whether the participants had depression.
"There seems to be no downside to improving one's life purpose, and there may be benefits," (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Jack Sparrow

No one has the answer to this eternal question.

ssangra

It depends....life sometimes let one reach a goal that one has set and sometimes it leads u to different goals of it's own violation. How u remain agile, flexible and adaptive to change,  navigate and make urself and ur family happy is all that matters.  As some zen saying said....a leaf that falls from the bough into the river travels further if it goes with the flow than if it clings to the rock. Somehow this zen saying has remained at the back of my mind as I navigate my life

Rhett_Bassard

14:38

gori100

It seems to coincide with what I already thought!

warlikeprince

I think every life on the Earth has a meaning and purpose...