OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Research in Quality of Life is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
School Acceptance and Support Moderate the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior: A Longitudinal Study	58
How Government Stereotypes Affect Life Satisfaction: a Good Government Matters More Than a Government That Does Good	43
The Effect of COVID-19 Information Overload on Emotional Eating in Post-pandemic Period in China: The Mediating Role of Fear of COVID-19 and the Moderating Role of Self-compassion	33
Unrevealing the Mediating Mechanisms Between Material Deprivation and Children’s Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being	33
Long Working Hours and Job Satisfaction in Platform Employment: An Empirical Study of On-Demand Delivery Couriers in China	32
The Impact of Age, COVID-19 and Physical Activity on Life Satisfaction in the European Union: A Cross-Sectional Analysis	29
From Play To Progress: The Impact of Extracurricular Activities on Early Childhood Development and Inequality	29
The Mediating Role of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in The Relation Between Cognitive Function and Life Satisfaction Among Malaysian Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Do Gender and Age Matter	27
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	26
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	26
Eudaimonia in Sourdough: Understanding Well-Being in the Sensory Experiences of Artisanal Activities	25
Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States	25
Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study	25
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis	23
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	23
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	23
Perceived Parental Psychopathology and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: Indirect Effects through Psychopathy	23
Health-Related Quality of Life: Measurement Tools, Predictors and Modifiers	22
The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?	22
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	22
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	21
Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses	21
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	20
The Impact of Citizens’ Satisfaction with National-level Institutions and Conditions on Their Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from 137 Countries	19
Does the Dibao Program Improve Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in China? Perceptions of Pathways of Poverty Attribution and Income Inequality	19

Why are City Residents Less Happy than the Rest of the Population in Developed Countries? Studying the Urban-Rural Happiness Gap in Denmark Using Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition	17
The Paradox of Parental Workaholism: How Incongruence Promotes Student Engagement and Congruence Reduces Student Engagement	17
The Mediation of Exam-oriented Cultural Capital: Economic Capital and Educational Inequality of Chinese High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closures	16
The Impact of Short-Term Study in China Programs: Voices of Hong Kong University Students	16
Having a Partner or Living with a Partner: Differences in Life Satisfaction and Mental Health	16
Longitudinal Relation between Childhood Maltreatment and Prosocial Behaviors: The Parallel Mediators of Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness	15
Bidirectional Mediating Effects between Problematic Internet Use and Obesity-Related Eating Behavior on College Students’ Sub-Health Status: A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis	15
50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues	15
Understanding Teacher Educators' Quality of Life: Insights from the PERMA Model	15
Co-parenting Pathways from Grandparents’ Psychological Control to Parents’ Depressive Symptoms	14
Spatial Patterns of Subjective Well-Being on the Aquitaine Coastline, France	14
Material Conditions and Their Relationship with Affective Components of Subjective Well-being in Children	14
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Minnesota Long-Stay Resident Quality of Life Survey	14
The Role of Environmental, Economic, and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in the Quality of Life in Spain	13
Validation of the Short‐Form 36 Health Survey (SF‐36) for use in Mexican older persons	13
Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain	13
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	12
Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data	12
Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation	12
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	12
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	12
Perceived Unfairness Moderates the Association Between Relative Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being: Findings from an East Asian Country	12
Universal Basic Income and Autonomous Work Motivation: Influences on Trajectories of Mental Health in Employees	11
Trajectories of Canadian Workers’ Well-Being During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Parenting Attitudes and Korean Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Dependency: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression	11
Gender Differences in Desired Alone Time Among Canadian Parents of Young Children	11
Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world	11
Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line	11
Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran	11
Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing	10
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	10
Do Affective States Influence the Receptivity of Hope Intervention? A Three-Week Self-Administered Online Hope Intervention	10
Using Autonomous Teams to Improve Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities	10
Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona	9
“Withdrawal Syndrome”: The Effects of Acts of Microaggression in the Classroom on Racialized Students	9
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	9
The Breakup of Binational Couples: Analyzing the Importance of Cultural Dissimilarity in the Couple Well-Being	9
Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment	9
Intergenerational Relationship Types and Attitude Toward Retirement: Do Gender and Number of Children Matter?	9
Sonja Lyubomirsky: Pioneer in the Empirical Study of Happiness and Well-Being Interventions	9
‘Bad Jobs’ in Europe: Derivation and Analysis of a Wellbeing-Related Job Quality Threshold	9
The Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on State Anxiety in the Regular Epidemic Prevention and Control Phase in the Context of Informatization: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model	9
Why do Middle-Aged Adults Report Worse Mental Health and Wellbeing than Younger Adults? An Exploratory Network Analysis of the Swiss Household Panel Data	9
Women’s Mental Health During COVID-19 in South Africa	9
Review of the Book Community Prevention of Child Labor. Evidence-based Practices to Promote the Psychological Well-being of Minors. Maya Jariego, I. (2021). Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making	8
Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping	8
The Impact of Belief in a Just World on the Association between Developmental Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms	8
Economic Insecurity, Perceived Stress, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study on Mental Health	8
Perspectives on Well-being of Older Adults and Young People in Taiwan- A Q-Methodology Study	8
Informal Caregivers’ Benefits of Residing in a Neighborhood with High Social Participation: A Multilevel Analysis in Japan	8

Father Identity Enactment and Paternal Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Roles of Contexts	8
Bicultural Acceptance Attitude as a Protective Factor Against the Effect of Acculturative Stress on Life Satisfaction Among Korean Multicultural Adolescents	8
PERMA-Profiler for the Evaluation of well-being: Adaptation and Validation in a Sample of University Students and Employees in the Mexican Educational Context	8
The Impact of the Pandemic on Health and Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers of Older People: Results from a Cross-National European Survey in an Age-Related Perspective	7
Trajectories of Self-Control in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Academic, Psychological, and Career Development among Chinese College Students	7
Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes	7
The Higher the Education, the Less Leisure Time? - An Empirical Analysis from CTUS	7
Transition Patterns of Intergenerational Solidarity and Digital Communication During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea: Association with Older Parents’ Cognitive Decline	7
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	7
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	7
“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement	7
Mixed-Sex Peer Interactions and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents	7
Longitudinal Associations of Gratitude with Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being: A Two-Wave Study	7
The Indirect Effect of Mindfulness in Marriage in the Relationship Between Digital Stress and Dyadic Adjustment: An Investigation of Dyadic Effects	7
The Impact of Covid19 on the Urban–Rural Happiness	7
Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies	7
Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Policy in Mainland China	7
Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model	7
Gratitude as a Protective Factor for Cybervictimisation and Anxiety Symptomatology: A Prospective Study	7
Generational Differences in Subjective Well-Being in Australia	7
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	7
The Role of Spirituality and Beliefs in the Future in the Mental Health of Chinese Adolescents During the Pandemic	7
How can the Social Family Climate Contribute to Emotional Intelligence in Preventing Suicidal Ideation and Promoting Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents?	6
Correction to: Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	6
Exploring the Association between Multidimensional Poverty and Depression Using Structural Equation Models	6
Psychosocial Influences on Coping and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research	6
Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses	6
Conceptualization of self-oriented parenting perfectionism and its Associations with parents’ wellbeing among Chinese parents	6
Gender Disparities in Childhood Poverty and Employment Quality among Young Adult Workers in South Korea	6
Cyberbullying Following Cyber-Victimization Among Chinese Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Normative Beliefs About Aggression	6
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Capital as Tools for Managing Fluctuations in Well-Being Throughout the Voyage of Life	6
Happily Distant or Bitter Medicine? The Impact of Social Distancing Preferences, Behavior, and Emotional Costs on Subjective Wellbeing During the Epidemic	6
A Meta-Analysis of Neighbourhood Interventions on Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health	6
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	6
Valuing the Wellbeing Associated with Psychosocial Factors at Work	6
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	6
“Helping Others Makes Me Feel Better”: Trait Gratitude, Resilience, and Helping Behavior Improve Mental Health during a COVID-19 Lockdown	6
Assessing Human Development in Nepal through Descriptive and Cluster Analysis: Progress and Disparities	6
Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effects of Economic and Subjective Poverty on Life Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Hong Kong	5
Wellbeing Heterogeneity within and Among University Students	5
“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?	5
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	5
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	5
“Good Kids” or “Bad Kids”: An Action Research on Strengthening Juvenile Delinquents’ Social bonds	5
Intergenerational Relationships and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Unmet Home- and Community-based Care Needs	5
Resilience and Mental Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Testing the Moderation Model of Physical Activity and Religiosity	5
The relationship between problematic social media use and health behavior: An exploratory specification curve analysis of large-scale survey data	5
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	5
Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction:	5
The Dual Effects of Passion on Leisure Wellbeing: Toward a Theory of Engagement in Diverse Leisure Activities	5
What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana	5
Participatory Research Methods and Tools for Promoting Children's Psychological Well-Being: A Systematic Review	5
Perception of School Climate and Positive Youth Development in Poverty-Stricken Rural China: The Mediating Role of Intentional Self-Regulation	5
Confidence in Societal Institutions Extends Citizens’ Radius of Trust, Leading to Even Greater Life Satisfaction in Societies with Stronger Rule of Law	5
Patterns of Sexuality, Adjustment to Aging and Satisfaction with Life: A Cluster Analysis of Adults Across the Lifespan	5
Living Near Contamination: The Impacts on Personal Well-Being	5
Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response	5
Changes in Job Strain in the US, Europe and Korea	5
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	5
EuroQol EQ-5D-3L Quality of Life Population Norms for Sierra Leone	5
Is Educational Aspiration Mismatch Associated With Depressive Symptomatology? An Analysis of Mother-Adolescent Dyads	5
Impact of Institutional Quality on the Quality of Life in Africa: An Economic Approach	5