ReviewNature human behaviour2025
Multidimensional versus unidimensional approaches to well-being.
Review in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exploring the factors associated with professional and non-professional dancer well-being: a comprehensive systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Cohort update: waves 2 and 3 of the global flourishing study.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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- 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
- A cross-national study of demographic variation and childhood predictors of traumatic distress.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Mental illness, mental health, and mental well-being.Npj mental health research · 2026Review
- Exploring associations of three evaluative subjective wellbeing measures (Cantril's ladder, life satisfaction, happiness) with 15 childhood and demographic factors across 22 countries.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Toward a holistic understanding of wellbeing: a psychometric evaluation of the 7DHW model in a Portuguese sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Validating the Korean versions of the flourish index and the secure flourish index: a comprehensive psychometric approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A comparative "report card" wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study.Discover global society · 2026Article
- Life Satisfaction is More Strongly Correlated with Flourishing Than Cantril's Ladder.Applied research in quality of life · 2026Article
- Seeds of Hope: Cross-National Analysis of Childhood Predictors of Hope in 22 Countries.Applied research in quality of life · 2025Article
- The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing.Nature. Mental health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Interest in the scientific study of well-being has grown substantially, spanning various disciplines and sectors of society, while also gaining greater relevance in policymaking. In this Perspective, we compare and contrast unidimensional versus multidimensional understandings of well-being, and corresponding measures of life satisfaction or life evaluation versus flourishing. We consider conceptual, empirical, pragmatic and policy arguments that have been put forward for each of these understandings and measurement approaches. While we argue that well-being needs to be conceptually and scientifically understood, and empirically studied, as a multidimensional construct, we acknowledge the pragmatic and policy challenges of doing so and how in some circumstances relying on a unidimensional assessment may sometimes be practically necessary. We put forward some proposals as to how researchers and policymakers might navigate these various challenges.
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