Chosen jquery plugin - Get the selected text/ label (not value) of multiple selection

Question

I have a chosen multi-select box as below

No matter how many items are selected, I want to get only the current (single) selected label.
I found that params.selected can get the selected value, but what I need is the selected label.

I also cannot use $("#purposes option:selected").text() because it get multiple selected labels,

 $("#purposes").chosen().on("change", function(event, params) { console.log(params.selected); //this works for value only });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.jquery.min.js"></script> <select class="chosen-select" id="purposes" multiple data-placeholder="Purposes"> <option value="1">Massaging</option> <option value="2">Downloading</option> <option value="3">Research</option> <option value="4">Travel arrangements</option> <option value="8">Banking</option> <option value="9">OTHERS</option> </select>

Answer 1

You could find the option with the selected value and get its label by .text()

$(this).find(`option[value=${params.selected}]`).text()

 $("#purposes").chosen().on("change", function(event, params) { console.log($(this).find(`option[value=${params.selected}]`).text()) });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.jquery.min.js"></script> <select class="chosen-select" id="purposes" multiple data-placeholder="Purposes"> <option value="1">Massaging</option> <option value="2">Downloading</option> <option value="3">Research</option> <option value="4">Travel arrangements</option> <option value="8">Banking</option> <option value="9">OTHERS</option> </select>