Our Publications

Since its founding in 2016, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University has published over 100 articles in leading academic journals. Below is a sample of our work:

Publications by Topic

Flourishing - Measurement and Promotion

Promotion of Flourishing:

VanderWeele, T.J. and Brooks, A.C. (2023). A public health approach to negative news media: the 3-to-1 solution. American Journal of Health Promotion, 37:447–449.

VanderWeele, T.J. and Lomas, T. (2023). Terminology and the well-being literature. Affective Science, 4:36-40.

Lomas, T. Cowden, R., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). Befriending the butterfly: a multidimensional review of strategies to facilitate happiness and wellbeing. European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 5, 22:1-23.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Activities for flourishing: an evidence-based guide. Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing, 4:79-91.

VanderWeele, T.J., Chen. Y., Long, K.N., Kim, E.S., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2020). Positive epidemiology? Epidemiology, 31:189-193.

Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Millstein, R., von Hippel, C., Howe, R., Tomasso, L. P., Wagner, G., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Psychological well-being as part of the public health debate? Insight into dimensions, interventions, and policy. BMC Public Health, 15;9(12):e033697.

VanderWeele, T.J., McNeely, E., and Koh, H.K. (2019). Reimagining health: flourishing. Journal of the American Medical Association, 321(17):1667-1668.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). On the promotion of human flourishing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 31:8148-8156.

Measurement:

Lee, M., Kubzansky, L.D., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press.

VanderWeele, T.J., Fulks, J., Plake, J.F., and Lee, M.T. (2021). National well-being measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in online samples. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36:248–250.

VanderWeele, T.J., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Allin, P., Farrelly, C., Fletcher, G., Frederick, D.E., Hall, J., Helliwell, J.F., Kim, E.S., Lauinger, W.A., Lee, M.T., Lyubomirsky, S., Margolis, S., McNeely, E., Messer, N., Tay, L., Viswanath, V., Węziak-Białowolska, D., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2020). Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being. Preventive Medicine, 133:106004.

VanderWeele, T.J., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Allin, P., Farrelly, C., Fletcher, G., Frederick, D.E., Hall, J., Helliwell, J.F., Kim, E.S., Lauinger, W.A., Lee, M.T., Lyubomirsky, S., Margolis, S., McNeely, E., Tay, L., Viswanath, V., Węziak-Białowolska, D., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2020). Brief well-being assessments, or nothing at all? Preventive Medicine, 135:106095.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Measures of community well-being: a template. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2:253-275.

Węziak-Białowolska, D., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Flourish index and secure flourish index – validation in workplace settings. Cogent Psychology, 6 (1598926): 1-10.

Węziak-Białowolska, D., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Human flourishing in cross cultural settings: evidence from the US, China, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Mexico. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (Article 1269): 1-13.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). Discussion of: "New statistics for old? - measuring the wellbeing of the UK." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 180:38-39.

Well-Being and the Workplace

Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Lee, M.T., Cowden, R.G., Bialowolski, P., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2023). Psychological caring climate at work, mental health, well-being, and work-related outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study and health insurance data. Social Science & Medicine, 323:115841.

Hanson, J.A. (2021). Work in the Platonic Tradition: A History of Labor and Human Flourishing. Bloomsbury.

Frederick, D.E. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Longitudinal meta-analysis of job crafting shows positive association with work engagement. Cogent Psychology, 7:1,1746733.

Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Bialowolski, P., Sacco, P.L., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2020). Well-being in life and well-being at work: which comes first? Evidence from a longitudinal study. Frontiers in Public Health, 8:103.

Bialowolski, P., McNeely, E., VanderWeele, T.J., and Weziak-Bialowolska, D. (2020). Ill health and distraction at work: costs and drivers for productivity loss. PLoS One, 15(3):e0230562.

VanderWeele, T.J., Węziak-Białowolska, D., Białowolski, P., and McNeely, E. (2019). Re: A comprehensive approach to problems of performance measurement. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 182:797-798.

Frederick, D.E. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Supported employment: meta-analysis and review of randomized controlled trials of individual placement and support. PLoS One, 14(2):e0212208.

Im, Y. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). The role of first-year maternal employment and paternal involvement in behavioral and cognitive development of young children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 39(4):449-465.

Family, Marriage, and Parenting

Chen, Y., Mathur, M.B., Case, B.W., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Marital transitions during earlier adulthood and subsequent health and well-being in mid- to late-life among female nurses: an outcome-wide analysis. Global Epidemiology, 5:100099.

Wilkinson, R., Nakamura, J., Kim, E.S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Social support and social strain from children and subsequent health and well-being among older U.S. adults. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40:2980-3003.

Chen, Y., Hinton, C., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). School types in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in young adulthood: An outcome-wide analysis. PLoS One 16(11): e0258723.

VanderWeele, T.J., Mathur, M.B., and Chen, Y. (2019). Media portrayals and public health implications for suicide and other behaviors. JAMA Psychiatry, 76:891-892.

Mathur, M. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Finding common ground in meta-analysis “wars” on violent video games. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14:705–708.

Chen, Y., Haines, J. Charlton, B., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Positive parenting improves multiple aspects of health and well-being in young adulthood. Nature Human Behavior, 3:684-691.

Chen, Y. Kubzansky, L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Parental warmth and flourishing in mid-life. Social Science and Medicine, 220:65-72.

Li, S., Kubzansky, L.D., VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. Nurses in mid and late life. PLoS One, 13(12): e0207778.

Social Connectedness and Belonging

Hong, J.H., Nakamura, J., Sahakari, S., Chopik, W., Shiba, K., VanderWeele, T.J. and Kim, E. (2024). The silent epidemic of loneliness: identifying the antecedents of loneliness using a lagged exposure-wide approach. Psychological Medicine, in press.

Hong, J.H., Berkman, L.F., Chen, F.S., Shiba, K., Chen, Y., Kim, E.S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Are loneliness and social isolation equal threats to health and well-being? An outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, 23:101459.

Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Bialowolski, P., Lee, M.T., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2022). Prospective associations between social connectedness and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and health insurance claims data. International Journal of Public Health, 67, Article 1604710: 1-9.

Kim, E.S., Chen, Y., Kawachi, I., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Health and Place, 66:102420.

Kim, E.S., Whillans, A.V., Lee, M.T., Chen, Y. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Volunteering and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 59:176-186.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Measures of community well-being: a template. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2:253-275.

Li, S., Hagan, K., Grodstein, F., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Social integration and healthy aging among U.S. women. Preventive Medicine Reports, 9:144-148.

Religious Communities

Original Empirical Research:

Shiba, K., Cowden, R. G., Gonzalez, N., Ransome, Y., Nakagomi, A., Chen, Y., Lee, M. T., VanderWeele, T. J., and Fancourt, D. (2022). Associations of online religious participation during COVID-19 lockdown with subsequent health and well-being among UK adults. Psychological Medicine, 1–10.

Chen, Y., Kim, E.S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Religious service attendance and subsequent health and well-being throughout adulthood: evidence from three prospective cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49:2030–2040.

Chen, Y., Koh, H.K., Kawachi, I., Botticelli, M., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Religious service attendance and deaths related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide among US health care professionals. JAMA Psychiatry, 77:737-744.

Kim, E.S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Mediators of the association between religious service attendance and mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188:96-101.

Pawlikowski, J., Białowolski, P., Węziak-Białowolska, D., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Religious service attendance, health behaviors and well-being – an outcome wide longitudinal analysis. European Journal of Public Health, 9:1177-1183.

Chen, Y. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Associations of religious upbringing with subsequent health and well-being from adolescence to young adulthood: an outcome-wide analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 187:2355–2364.

Li, S., Kubzansky, L.D., VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. Nurses in mid and late life. PLoS One, 13(12): e0207778.

VanderWeele, T.J., Yu, J., Cozier, Y.C., Wise, L., Argentieri, M.A., Rosenberg, L., Palmer, J.R., and Shields, A.E. (2017). Religious service attendance, prayer, religious coping, and religious-spiritual identity as predictors of all-cause mortality in the Black Women’s Health Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 185:515-522.

Li, S., Okereke, O.I., Chang, S.-C., Kawachi, I., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2016). Religious service attendance and depression among women – a prospective cohort study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 50:876-884.

VanderWeele, T.J., Li, S., Tsai, A., and Kawachi, I. (2016). Association between religious service attendance and lower suicide rates among US women. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(8):845-851.

Li, S., Stamfer, M., Williams, D.R. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2016). Association between religious service attendance and mortality among women. JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016;176(6):777-785.

Summary, Synthesis and Commentary:

VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). Effects of religious service attendance and religious importance on depression: examining the meta-analytic evidence. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 31:21-26.

VanderWeele, T.J. and Chen, Y. (2020). Religion as a social determinant of health. American Journal of Epidemiology, 189:1464-1466.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Religious communities. In: Kivimaki, M., Batty, D.G., Kawachi, I., and Steptoe, A. (eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Epidemiology. Routledge, 114-135.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Religious communities, health, and well-being - Address to the US Air Force Chaplain. Military Medicine, 183:105-109.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). Religion and health: a synthesis. In: Balboni, M.J. and Peteet, J.R. (eds.). Spirituality and Religion within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, p 357-401.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). Religious communities and human flourishing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26:476-481.

VanderWeele, T.J., Li, S. and Kawachi, I. (2017). Re: Religious service attendance and suicide rates. JAMA Psychiatry, 74:197-198.

VanderWeele, T.J., Palmer, J.R., and Shields, A.E. (2017). Re: Church attendance and mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology, 185:526-528.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). Physical activity and physical and mental well-being in church settings. American Journal of Public Health, 107:1023-1024.

VanderWeele, T.J., Jackson, J.W., and Li, S. (2016). Causal inference and longitudinal data: a case study of religion and mental health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(11):1457-1466.

Spirituality in Medicine and Public Health

VanderWeele, T.J., Balboni, T.A., Koh, H.K. (2022). Religious service attendance and implications for clinical care, community participation and public health. American Journal of Epidemiology, 191:31-35.

Balboni, T.A., VanderWeele, T.J., Doan-Soares, S.D., Long, K.N.G., Ferrell, B., Fitchett, G., Koenig, H.G., Bain, P., Puchalski, C., Steinhauser, K.E., Sulmasy, D.P., and Koh, H.K. (2022). Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health. JAMA, 328:184-197.

VanderWeele, T.J., Long, K. and Balboni, M.J. (2021). On tradition-specific measures of spiritual well-being. In: M. Lee, L.D. Kubzansky, and T.J. VanderWeele (Eds.). Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press, Chapter 16: 482-498.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Spiritual well-being and human flourishing: conceptual, causal, and policy relations. In: A.B. Cohen (Ed.). Religion and Human Flourishing. Baylor University Press, 43-54.

Koenig, H.G., Peteet, J.R., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Religion and psychiatry: clinical applications. British Journal of Psychiatry - Advances, 26:273-281.

Koenig, H.G., Al-Zaben, F., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Religion and psychiatry: recent developments in research. British Journal of Psychiatry - Advances, 26:262-272.

Chen, Y., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Spirituality, religion and suicide. In: D.H. Rosmarin and H.G. Koenig (Eds.): Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, p. 27-40.

Long K.N.G., Gregg R.J., VanderWeele, T.J., Oman, D., and Laird, L.D. (2019). Boundary Crossing: meaningfully engaging religious traditions and religious institutions in public health. Religions, 10(7):412.

Idler, E., Levin, J., VanderWeele, T.J., and Khan, A. (2019). Partnerships between public health agencies and faith communities. American Journal of Public Health, 109:346-347.

VanderWeele, T.J., Balboni, M.J., Balboni, T.A. (2018). The Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard: from research to education. In Oman, D. (ed.). Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health: Evidence, Implications, and Resources. Springer-Verlag, p. 371-382.

Balboni, M.J. and Balboni, T.A. (2018). Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine. Oxford University Press.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Is forgiveness a public health issue?American Journal of Public Health, 108:189-190.

VanderWeele, T.J., Balboni, T.A., Koh, H.K. (2017). Health and spirituality. JAMA, 318(6):519-520.

VanderWeele, T.J. and Koenig, H.G. (2017). A course on religion and public health at Harvard. American Journal of Public Health, 107:47-49.

Other Well-Being Research

Lomas, T., Bartels, M., Van De Weijer, M., Pluess, M., Hanson, J., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). The architecture of happiness. Emotion Review, in press.

Lomas, T. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). The complex creation of happiness: multidimensional conditionality in the drivers of happy individuals and societies. Journal of Positive Psychology, in press.

Lomas, T., Case, B.W., Cratty, F.J., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). A global history of happiness. International Journal of Wellbeing, 11:68-87.

Nakamura, J.S., Delaney, S.W, Diener, E., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. (2021). Are all domains of life satisfaction equal? Differential associations with health and well-being in older adults. Quality of Life Research, 31:1-14.

Kim, E.S., Delaney, S.W., Tay, L., Chen, Y., Diener, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). Life satisfaction and subsequent physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health in older adults. Milbank Quarterly, 99:209-239.

Lee, M.T., Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Mooney, K.D., Lerner, P.J., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). Self-assessed importance of domains of flourishing: demographics and correlations with well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 16:137-144 .

VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Challenges estimating total lives lost in COVID-19 decisions: consideration of mortality related to unemployment, social isolation, and depression. JAMA, 324:445-446.

Białowolska, P., Węziak-Białowolska, D., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). The impact of savings and credit on health and health behaviours: an outcome wide longitudinal approach. International Journal of Public Health, 64:573-584.

Meaning and Purpose

Nakamura, J.S., Ryff, C.D., Chen, Y., Folk, D., Heine, S.J., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. (2022). What makes life purposeful? Identifying the antecedents of a sense of purpose in life using a lagged exposure-wide approach. SSM – Population Health, 19:101235.

Okuzono, S.S., Shiba, K., Kim, E.S., Shirai, K., Kondo, N., Fujiwara, T., Kondo, K., Lomas, T., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Kawachi, I., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Ikigai and subsequent health and wellbeing among Japanese older adults: longitudinal outcome-wide analysis. Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 21:100391.

Kim, E.S., Nakamura, J.S., Chen, Y., Ryff, C.D., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Sense of purpose in life and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: an outcome-wide analysis. American Journal of Health Promotion, 36:137-147.

Hanson, J.A. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2021). The Comprehensive Measure of Meaning: psychological and philosophical foundations. In: M. Lee, L.D. Kubzansky, and T.J. VanderWeele (Eds.). Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press, Chapter 12: 339-376.

Hanson, J.A. (2020). Perspectives on and standards of life's meaningfulness: a reply to Landau. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23:561–573.

Chen, Y., Kim, E.S., Shields, A.E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Antecedents of purpose in life: evidence from a lagged exposure-wide analysis. Cogent Psychology, 7:1825043.

Chen, Y., Kim, E.S., Koh, H.K., Frazier, A.L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Sense of mission and subsequent health and well-being among young adults: an outcome-wide analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(4):664-673.

Character and Formation

Character:

Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Cowden, R.G., Bialowolski, P., Bechara, A.O., Chen, Z.J., Cook, K.V., Kurniati, N.M.T., Suwartono, C., Widyarini, N., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well-being: multi-study evidence from three on-western longitudinal samples. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54:449-464.

Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Lee, M.T., Bialowolski, P., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2023). Prospective associations between strengths of moral character and health. Longitudinal evidence from survey and insurance claims data. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 58:163–176

VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Virtues, mental health, and human flourishing. In: J.R. Peteet (ed.). Virtues in Psychiatric Practice. Oxford University Press.

Wilson, M.F. (2022). High-fidelity experiments, situationism, and the measurement of virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, 56:263-281.

Węziak-Białowolska, D., Białowolski, P., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2021). Character strengths involving an orientation to promote good can help your health and well-being. Evidence from two longitudinal studies. American Journal of Health Promotion, 35:388-398.

Forgiveness:

Ho, M. Y., Worthington, E., Cowden, R., Bechara, A. O., Chen, Z. J., Gunatirin, E. Y., Joynt, S., Khalanskyi, V.V., Korzhov, H., Kurniati, N.M.T., Rodriguez, N., Salnykova, A., Shtanko, L., Tymchenko, S., Voytenko, V.L., Zulkaida, A., Mathur, M. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). International REACH Forgiveness Intervention: A multi-site randomised controlled trial. BMJ Public Health, 2:e000072.

Bechara, A.O., Chen, Z.J., Cowden, R.G., Worthington, E.L., Toussaint, L., Rodriguez, N., Murillo, H.G., Ho, M.Y., Mathur, M.B., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Do forgiveness campaign activities improve forgiveness, mental health, and flourishing? International Journal of Public Health, 69:1605341.

Long, K., Worthington, E.L., VanderWeele, T.J. and Chen, Y. (2020). Forgiveness of others and subsequent health and well-being in mid-life: a longitudinal study on female nurses. BMC Psychology, 8:104.

Long, K., Chen, Y., Potts, M., Hanson, J., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Spiritually motivated self-forgiveness and divine forgiveness, and subsequent health and well-being among middle-aged female nurses: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (Article 1337):1-12.

Chen, Y., Harris, S.K, Worthington, E.L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Religiously or spiritually-motivated forgiveness and subsequent health and well-being among young adults: an outcome-wide analysis. Journal of Positive Psychology, 187:2355-2364.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Is forgiveness a public health issue? American Journal of Public Health, 108:189-190.

Love:

VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). On an analytic definition of love. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 25:105-135.

Hanson, J. (2022). 'That is giving a banquet’: neighbor-love as spiritualizing romantic loves in Works of Love. Journal of Religious Ethics, 50:196-218.

Lee, M.T. (2021). Love as a foundational principle for humanistic management. In Michael Pirson (Ed.). Love and Organization: Lessons of Love for Human Dignity, Leadership and Motivation. Routledge.

Chen, Y., Haines, J. Charlton, B., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Positive parenting improves multiple aspects of health and well-being in young adulthood. Nature Human Behavior, 3:684-691.

Chen, Y. Kubzansky, L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Parental warmth and flourishing in mid-life. Social Science and Medicine, 220:65-72.

Hope and Optimism:

Long, K.N.G., Wilkinson, R., Cowden, R.G., Chen, Y., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Hope in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood: an outcome-wide longitudinal study. Social Science & Medicine, 347:116704.

VanderWeele, T.J. and Kubzansky, L.D. (2021). Facets of optimism. American Psychologist, 76:1191-1193.

Long, K.N.G., Kim, E.S., Chen, Y., Wilson, M.F., Worthington, E.L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). The role of hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Global Epidemiology, 2:100018.

Volunteering:

Nakamura, J.S., Lee, M.T., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. Informal helping and subsequent health and well-being in older U.S. adults. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, in press.

Nakamura, J.S., Shiba, K., Jensen, S.M., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. (2023). Who benefits from helping? Moderators of the association between informal helping and mortality. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57:1058-1068.

Nakamura, J.S., Lee, M.T., Chen, F.S., Archer Lee, Y. Fried, L.P., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. (2022). Identifying pathways to increased volunteering in older US adults. Scientific Reports, 12:12825.

Suffering, Adversity, and Growth:

VanderWeele, T.J., Cowden, R.G., Kelly, P., and Peteet, J.R. (2023). The need for the scientific study of the transformation of suffering. International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology, 12(1).

Kaftanski, W. And Hanson, J. (2022). Suffering, authenticity, and meaning in life: toward an integrated conceptualization of well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1079032.

Cowden, R.G., Seidman, A.J., Duffee, C., Węziak-Białowolska, D., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Associations of suffering with facets of health and well-being among working adults: longitudinal evidence from two samples. Scientific Reports, 12:20141.

Cowden, R.G., Węziak-Białowolska, D., McNeely, E., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Are depression and suffering distinct? an empirical analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:970466.

Cowden, R.G., Rueger, S.Y., Davis, E.B., Counted, V., Kent, B.V., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T.J., Rim, M., Lemke, A.W., Glowiak, K.J., and Worthington, E.L. (2021). Suffering, mental health, and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study of U.S. adults with chronic health conditions. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2:100048.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Suffering and response: directions in empirical research. Social Science and Medicine, 224:58-66.

Education, Character, and Flourishing:

VanderWeele, T.J. and Hinton, C. (2024). Metrics for education for flourishing: A framework. International Journal of Wellbeing, 14, Article 3197: 1-35.

VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). The importance, opportunities, and challenges of empirically assessing character for the promotion of flourishing. Journal of Education, 202:170–180.