The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing

Nature Mental Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 30, 2025

Language: Английский

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An exploratory cross-national analysis of the childhood predictors of inner peace in the Global Flourishing Study

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Great efforts have been expended studying how people's childhood affects their life in adulthood. Although attention has mostly focused on 'negative' outcomes, such as mental illness, paradigms like positive psychology encouraged interest desirable phenomena too. Yet amidst this 'positive turn' some desiderata still received scant engagement, including inner peace. This lacuna perhaps reflects the Western-centric nature of academia, with low arousal emotions regarded being relatively undervalued West. But aligning broader to redress Western-centricity is an emergent literature topic. report adds by presenting cross-sectional wave 1 data from most ambitious longitudinal study date peace, namely item - "In general, often do you feel are at peace your thoughts and feelings?" Global Flourishing Study, intended five-year investigating predictors human flourishing involving (in first year) 202,898 participants 22 countries. exploratory paper looks 13 using random effects meta-analysis aggregate all findings, focusing three research questions. First, recalled aspects a child's upbringing predict adulthood, for which impactful factor average was self-rated health growing up, Risk Ratios, relative "good", ranging 0.93 "poor" 1.07 "excellent". Second, associations vary country, effect poor spanning 0.37 Turkey 1.19 Nigeria. Third, relationships robust potential unmeasured confounding, assessed E-values, up confounder association Ratio 1.36 These results shed valuable new light long-term causal dynamics overlooked but important

Language: Английский

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Religious centrality across 22 countries

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Language: Английский

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A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in educational attainment

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Prior research documents strong associations between higher educational attainment and improved health well-being outcomes. Studies on differences, such as those conducted by OECD UNESCO, have focused national trends in attainment. The current study builds existing international surveys of providing supporting evidence for several countries novel various other territories. For example, results demonstrate that country-level aggregate estimates the proportion population attaining a tertiary education from Global Flourishing Study (GFS) aligns fairly well with OECD, correlation [Formula: see text] 95% CI (0.57, 0.94), new may be lower bound estimated education. A major additional contribution this article is insights into contexts across reporting which sociodemographic groups tend to attained levels how these differ countries. We examined differences evaluating (e.g., age, marital status, employment status) achieving more found using data 202,898 participants 22 were post-stratified nationally representative within each country.

Language: Английский

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Childhood predictors of balance in life: a cross-national analysis of the global flourishing study

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Although the importance of balance has been recognized in various specific domains, from work-life to a balanced diet, there curiously little attention life overall (i.e., across all aspects living). As result, is relatively understanding its dynamics, including any childhood factors that may be associated with adulthood. To gain better such factors, we analysed cross-sectional wave 1 data on Global Flourishing Study. This five-year (minimum) panel study investigating predictors human flourishing, involving (in this first year) 202,898 participants 22 countries, and which includes item, "In general, how often are your balance?" Here looked at 13 balance, using random effects meta-analyses aggregate findings main text, focusing three research questions. First, do different child's upbringing predict adulthood?, for most impactful factor was "feel[ing] like an outsider family" when growing up (Risk Ratio = 0.90), least immigration status (0.98). Second, these associations vary by country?, effect being outsider, example, strongest Australia, weakest (not than zero) Egypt, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Turkey. Third, observed relationships robust potential unmeasured confounding, as assessed E-values, case. These results shed new light cross-cultural causal dynamics overlooked topic provide foundation further enquiry.

Language: Английский

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A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in suffering across 22 countries

Communications Medicine, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Suffering has been identified as an important public health issue worthy of closer attention. This preregistered study takes initial step toward developing epidemiology suffering by exploring the distribution in 22 countries and testing for sociodemographic disparities suffering. Using nationally representative data from first wave Global Flourishing Study (N = 202,898), we estimated proportion people who endorsed some/a lot each country. Variation proportions across categories 9 characteristics (age, gender, marital status, employment years education, immigration frequency religious service attendance, affiliation, racial/ethnic identity) were separately We aggregated country-level estimates specific using random effects meta-analyses. find that country-specific populations experiencing varies considerably, ranging 0.24 (Poland) to 0.60 (Türkiye). Country-level results provide evidence cross-national heterogeneity all categories, although variation is greater some than others. Meta-analytic support differences based on education countries, with highest observed among those have separated their spouse, are either unemployed looking a job or endorse none these/other status category, completed 8 fewer education. categories. Our findings lay foundation population-level monitoring population agenda address vulnerable subpopulations.

Language: Английский

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Demographic variation in pain across 22 countries

Communications Medicine, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: May 5, 2025

Language: Английский

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Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood: A Cross-National Analysis with 22 Countries

Applied Research in Quality of Life, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 7, 2025

Abstract A robust body of empirical evidence suggests that forgiveness others is positively related to individual wellbeing. However, less work has been done identify the factors may help children not only forgive better during childhood but also develop into adults who practice more consistently. To support a population health agenda aimed at promotion forgiveness, further research needed potential determinants forgiveness. In this preregistered study, we used first wave nationally representative data from 22 countries included in Global Flourishing Study ( N = 202,898) explore associations 13 characteristics and retrospectively assessed with dispositional forgivingness adulthood. We estimated country-level modified Poisson models which was regressed on all candidate predictors, then aggregated results for 11 predictors were common across using random effects meta-analysis. Risk ratios meta-analyses showed combination (e.g., older birth cohort, female gender), early life conditions or experiences frequent religious service attendance, health, secure family financial status), social circumstances influences when growing up higher quality maternal paternal relationships) associated likelihood Associations somewhat heterogeneous countries. Our findings suggest be important shaping adulthood provide some foci population-level interventions.

Language: Английский

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Life evaluation, life satisfaction, and happiness: assessing inter-relations and 15 childhood and demographic factors across 22 Countries in the Global Flourishing Study

Published: May 13, 2025

Despite a vast literature on subjective wellbeing (SWB), issues remain, including (a) debates around which concepts best represent it, (b) disjointed understanding of relevant factors, and (c) limited appreciation cross-national variation regarding (b). We address these using data from the Global Flourishing Study three constructs pertaining to evaluative SWB (life evaluation, life satisfaction, and, more ambiguously, happiness), examining associations with 15 childhood demographic factors in 202,898 participants 22 countries. Key findings include, for (a), satisfaction being performing construct (in correlations overall flourishing), all significantly associated (with largest employment status among self-reported health factors), patterns varying substantively across countries (suggesting general trends are not universal but differ according local socio-cultural dynamics). The advance methodological, socio-demographic, SWB.

Language: Английский

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Health as a means to flourishing

European Journal of Epidemiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 15, 2025

Language: Английский

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