The Role of Purposeful Work Goals in Promoting Meaning in Life and in Schoolwork During Adolescence

By D. Yeager, Matthew J. Bundick. 2009

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Safety Research

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Ryan D. Duffy
2. Carol S. Dweck
3. B. Allan
4. D. Yeager
5. Richard P Douglass
6. P. Hill
7. Jeff J. Kosovich
8. R. Lazowski

In Education

1. Carol S. Dweck
2. D. Yeager
3. Chris S. Hulleman
4. Gregory Walton
5. Richard P Douglass
6. Dave Paunesku
7. B. Allan
8. Carissa Romero

In Safety Research

1. D. Yeager
2. Chris S. Hulleman
3. Carol S. Dweck
4. Gregory Walton
5. Richard P Douglass
6. Jeff J. Kosovich
7. K. Barron
8. Ryan D. Duffy

Citations in the corpus

• How Supportive of Their Specific Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are? (2013, background): “Such institutional supports have been included in research on purpose and positive youth development (e.g., Mariano & Damon, 2008; Shamah, 2011; Yeager & Bundick, 2009; Youniss, McLellan, & Yates, 1999).”
• Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement (2015, background): “…interventions encourage students to reflect on how working hard and learning in school can help them accomplish meaningful goals beyond the self, such as contributing to their community or being examples for other people (Yeager & Bundick, 2009; Yeager, Henderson, D’Mello, et al., 2014).”
• Classifying adolescents’ conceptions of purpose in life (2010, background): “However, the emerging work on purpose with adolescents seems to suggest that they indeed are capable of considering these constructs (eg, Bronk & Finch, 2010 ; Burrow et al, 2010; Yeager & Bundick, 2009 ).”
• Student Motivation: Current Theories, Constructs, and Interventions Within an Expectancy-Value Framework (2016, background): “…much enjoyment from chemistry (i.e., intrinsic value); however, learning chemistry may be valuable because it enables the student to pursue a medical degree (i.e., utility value) or solve an important social problem, such as creating clean water in impoverished nations (Yeager & Bundick, 2009 ).”
• Meaning in life and work: A developmental perspective (2015, background): “Finally, adolescents who report purposeful career goals also report higher meaning in life (Yeager & Bundick, 2009).”
• Adolescent Purpose Development: Exploring Empathy, Discovering Roles, Shifting Priorities, and Creating Pathways (2014, background): “Some research has examined purpose in specific domains, including the impact of purposeful career goals on schoolwork (Yeager & Bundick, 2009) and the role of religion and spirituality in adolescent purpose (Mariano & Damon, 2008; Tirri Seana Moran is now on the Department of Psychology faculty at…”