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April 08, 2025

Patience Amidst Adversity

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Patience Amidst Adversity

The Patience amidst Adversity grant is a larger grant to Baylor University. Members of the Adolescent Moral Development lab will lead the qualitative component of this larger project.
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April 08, 2025

The Role of Character Strengths and Virtues in the Pursuit of Purpose

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The Role of Character Strengths and Virtues in the Pursuit of Purpose

This study examines the relationship among character strengths, virtues, and purpose.
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Uncovering the Antecedents of Purpose

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Uncovering the Antecedents of Purpose

This exploratory study focuses on the antecedents of purpose.
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February 09, 2024

Cultivating Purpose in K-12 School Settings

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Cultivating Purpose in K-12 School Settings

This study seeks to map the landscape of K-12 school-based purpose interventions and to make empirically-based recommendations regarding how these efforts could be scaled more broadly.
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June 08, 2022

Examining Career and College Planning through the Lens of Purpose in the East and West

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Examining Career and College Planning through the Lens of Purpose in the East and West

We are conducting a three-year longitudinal study of career purpose.
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June 08, 2022

Exploring the Search for Purpose

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Exploring the Search for Purpose

This study seeks to explore the role that patience, conceptualized as the ability to stay calm but actively engaged in the face of frustration or suffering, plays in the search for purpose.
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Recent Publications
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults

Bronk, K. C., Swanson, Z. T., Whitney, W. B., Balkaya-Ince, M., & Schnitker, S. (2025). Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

“I will cherish this experience for a lifetime”: A qualitative exploration of the benefits of intergenerational dialogue in college students

Swanson, Z. T., Nuño, C., Walker, R. V., & Shelton, J. T. (2024).

Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness

Kenny, M. E., Wu, X., Guterres, K. M. P., Gordon, P., Schmidtberger, R., Masters, A., Tanega, C., & Cunningham, S. (2023). Journal of Career Assessment, 10690727231217108. doi: 10.1177/10690727231217108

Promoting decent work and decent life for all: Preparing the next generation through decent education and career development education

Kenny, M. E., Schmidtberger, R., & Masters, A. (2023). Australian Journal of Career Development, 32(3), 187-195. doi: 10.1177/10384162231186115

Family purpose: An empirical investigation of collective purpose

Bronk, K. C., Liechtenstein, H., El Sehity, T., Mitchell, C., Postlewaite, E., Colby, A., Damon, W., & Swanson, Z. (2023). The Journal of Positive Psychology, 19(4), 662-674. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2023.2254738 

A co-citation analysis of purpose: Trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship

Bronk, K.C., Reichard, R.J., & Qi, J. (2023). Journal of Positive Psychology, 18(6), 1012-1026. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2023.2168563

In The News

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Reducing Prejudice Through Virtue? Promising Results From A New Study

- Forbes
January 31, 2025

Family Purpose in Family Firms: What It Looks Like and Why It’s Important

- Family Firm Institute Practitioner Magazine
March 16, 2022

 
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