Sense of Purpose

This topic is covered in depth at purpose-meaning-and-wellbeing. See that article for Martela & Steger's three dimensions of meaning (coherence, significance, purpose), beneficence as a fourth SDT need, and Killingsworth & Gilbert's mind-wandering and happiness research. The bidirectional relationship between purpose and physical activity (Yemiscigil & Vlaev 2021) is also covered there.

Related: self-determination-theory, resilience, gratitude-and-well-being, authentic-pride-patterns