ReviewAffective science2023
Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effectiveness of mental health first aid training for nursing students in northwestern China: a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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- Optimism and cognitive functioning trajectories in a cohort of aging men.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Mapping demographic variations in sense of mastery across the world a cross-national analysis of 22 countries in the global flourishing study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Scaling a Brief Digital Well-Being Intervention (the Big Joy Project) and Sociodemographic Moderators: Single-Group Pre-Post Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Sources of stress in online learning scale: development and validation of an instrument to evaluate students' stressors associated with the online learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Who Engages in Well-Being Interventions? An Analysis of a Global Digital Intervention Study.The journal of positive psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Psychological well-being, characterized by feelings, cognitions, and strategies that are associated with positive functioning (including hedonic and eudaimonic well-being), has been linked with better physical health and greater longevity. Importantly, psychological well-being can be strengthened with interventions, providing a strategy for improving population health. But are the effects of well-being interventions meaningful, durable, and scalable enough to improve health at a population-level? To assess this possibility, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars convened to review current knowledge and develop a research agenda. Here we summarize and build on the key insights from this convening, which were: (1) existing interventions should continue to be adapted to achieve a large-enough effect to result in downstream improvements in psychological functioning and health, (2) research should determine the durability of interventions needed to drive population-level and lasting changes, (3) a shift from individual-level care and treatment to a public-health model of population-level prevention is needed and will require new infrastructure that can deliver interventions at scale, (4) interventions should be accessible and effective in racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse samples. A discussion examining the key future research questions follows.
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