Exploring Sense of Purpose and Conscientiousness as Correlates to Health and Well-Being With Indigenous and Low Socioeconomic Communities on Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver, Canada

Research is needed to better understand factors promoting health and well-being with IndigenousPeoples and people with socioeconomic barriers in Canada, given they face multiple social determi-nants that are barriers to health. Individual dispositions, sense of purpose and conscientiousness, areknown to predict health and well-being in broader samples. In a community-based approach, guidedby Indigenous Elders with traditional ways of knowing, we aimed to determine whether thesemeasures correlate with self-rated health and well-being among Indigenous (n=149) and non-Indigenous (n=151) Peoples in Vancouver, Canada. The majority of participants (mean age 49 years,and 58% male) had relatively low income (=$15,000/year) and educational attainment (更多