ArticleNature. Mental health2025
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing.
Article in Nature. Mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Childhood predictors of religious reading: a cross-national analysis in the Global Flourishing Study.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood antecedents of adult place satisfaction in 22 countries.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Sociodemographic variations of belief in life after death across 22 Countries.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Sociodemographic variation in dispositional forgivingness: a cross-national analysis with 22 countries.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood experiences and adult prayer or meditation in 22 countries around the world.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Cross-Lagged Associations Between Spiritual-Religious Support and Subjective Health Across 23 Societies: Cross-Level Moderation by Healthcare Access and Quality.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Beyond seizure freedom: Reframing recovery in epilepsy.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- Behavioral Tendencies of Success: Toward a Verb-Like Conception of Successful Life Functioning.The journal of positive psychology · 2026Article
- Beyond seizures: A multidimensional approach to non-seizure issues in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Insights from Italian experts.Epilepsia open · 2026Review
- National Estimates of Human Flourishing and Associated Acts of Charity.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Cohort update: waves 2 and 3 of the global flourishing study.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in perceived social trust across 22 countries.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Coordinated outcome-wide analytic methodology for multi-wave analyses of the global flourishing study.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Defining a shift estimand on forgivingness without domesticating forgiveness: Comment on Cowden et al.SSM. Mental health · 2026Article
- Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Adolescent Flourishing: A Within-Person Longitudinal Mediation Model of Self-Esteem.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Swedish Well-Being: The rising importance of age among demographic, personality, and social relationship factors.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- A cross-national study of demographic variation and childhood predictors of traumatic distress.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- The Flourishing Child: Study Protocol for an Acceptability and Feasibility Trial of a Digital Early Childhood Flourishing Intervention.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Childhood predictors of political voice across 22 countries in the global flourishing study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling and intended annual survey data collection for 5 years to assess numerous aspects of flourishing and its possible determinants. The study is intended to expand our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of flourishing around the world. Relations between a composite flourishing index and numerous demographic characteristics are reported. Participants were also surveyed about their childhood experiences, which were analyzed to determine their associations with subsequent adult flourishing. Analyses are presented both across and within countries, and discussion is given as to how the demographic and childhood relationships vary by country and which patterns appear to be universal versus culturally specific. Brief comment is also given on the results of a whole series of papers in the Global Flourishing Study Special Collection, employing similar analyses, but with more-specific aspects of well-being. The Global Flourishing Study expands our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of well-being and provides foundational knowledge for the promotion of societal flourishing.
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