Association between healthy lifestyle practices and life purpose among a highly health-literate cohort: a cross-sectional study

Nobutaka Hirooka, Takeru Kusano, Shunsuke Kinoshita, Ryutaro Aoyagi, Hidetomo Nakamoto

BMC Public Health · 2021 · 27 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

Our results suggest that individuals who have a better health-related lifestyle gain a higher sense of life purpose. In other words, a healthy lifestyle predicts a purpose in life. Our findings posit that examining the causal relationship between healthy lifestyle and purpose in life may be a more efficient approach toward health promotion.

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