OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Research in Quality of Life is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Quality of Life: Twelve Reflections	113
Do Quarantine Experiences and Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Affect the Distribution of Mental Health in China? A Quantile Regression Analysis	68
Global Evidence on the Determinants of Public Trust in Governments during the COVID-19	60
Trends of Positive Youth Development Publications (1995–2020): A Scientometric Review	51
Perceptions of Adolescents, Teachers and Parents of Life Skills Education and Life Skills in High School Students in Hong Kong	43
Leisure Time Sports Activities and Life Satisfaction: Deeper Insights Based on a Representative Survey from Germany	40
“My Entire World Stopped”: College Students’ Psychosocial and Academic Frustrations during the COVID-19 Pandemic	38
The Relationship Between Happiness and Consumption Expenditure: Evidence from Rural China	38
The Efficient Assessment of Self-Esteem: Proposing the Brief Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	30
Health-Related Quality of Life during COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing Impacts of Job Loss and Financial Support Programs in Japan	29
ICT Adoption, Individual Income and Psychological Health of Rural Farmers in China	29
How Trust Makes a Difference: The Impact of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Satisfaction in Germany	28
Mental Disorders Associated with COVID-19 Related Unemployment	26
Satisfaction with HyFlex Teaching and Law-abiding Leadership Education in Hong Kong University Students Under COVID-19	26
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	23
Determinants of Life Satisfaction of Economic Migrants Coming from Developing Countries to Countries with Very High Human Development: a Systematic Review	22
Editorial: Special Issue on Quality of Life among Children and Adolescents in Chinese Societies	21
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	19
Filial Piety, Generativity and Older Adults’ Wellbeing and Loneliness in Denmark and China	17
The Relationships Among Social Media Intensity, Smartphone Addiction, and Subjective Wellbeing of Turkish College Students	17
Well-Being and Health of Children in Rural China: the Roles of Parental Absence, Economic Status, and Neighborhood Environment	17
The impact of exogenous shocks on national wellbeing. New Zealanders’ reaction to COVID-19	17
The Contribution of Positive and Negative Affect to Life Satisfaction across Age	17
Worker Well-Being: What it Is, and how it Should Be Measured	16
Editorial: Children and Adolescent Quality of Life under Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	16

Does Positive Wellbeing Predict Job Performance Three Months Later?	15
Predictors to Happiness in Primary Students: Positive Relationships or Academic Achievement	15
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	13
Family Economic Strain and Adolescent Aggression during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Roles of Interparental Conflict and Parent–Child Conflict	13
Promoting Service Leadership Qualities and Well-Being among University Students: Evaluation Findings in Hong Kong	13
Housing and Subjective Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model	12
Concepts of Health-Related Quality of Life of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children: Parent Perceptions	12
Association Between The Search For Meaning In Life And Well-Being In Chinese Adolescents	12
Who benefits and appreciates more? An evaluation of Online Service-Learning Projects in Mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	12
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	12
Gender Differences in Psychological Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood	11
Emotional Competence as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Internet Addiction and Negative Emotion in Young Adolescents in Hong Kong	11
Multidimensional Retirement Planning Behaviors, Retirement Confidence, and Post-Retirement Health and Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults in Hong Kong	11
Prioritizing Happiness has Important Implications for Mental Health, but Perhaps Only if you Already are Happy	11
Social Policies and Theories on Quality of Life under COVID-19: In Search of the Missing Links	11
The Satisfaction with Life Scale in Adolescent Samples: Measurement Invariance across 24 Countries and Regions, Age, and Gender	10
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	10
Characterizing Hope: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Characteristics of Hope	10
Who is Left Behind? Altruism of Giving, Happiness and Mental Health during the Covid-19 Period in the UK	10
Health-Related Quality of Life of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Germany: a Cross-Sectional Study with Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel	10
The Impact of Residents' Leisure Time Allocation Mode on Individual Subjective Well-being: The Case of China	10
Happy but Vegetarian? Understanding the Relationship of Vegetarian Subjective Well-Being from the Nature-Connectedness Perspective of University Students	10
Family Conflicts, Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation of Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong	9
Student’s Quality of Life at the University: a Qualitative Study	9
Socioeconomic Status, Peer Social Capital, and Quality of Life of High School Students During COVID-19: A Mediation Analysis	9
Arts and Cultural Activities and Happiness: Evidence from Korea	9
The Relationship between Children’s School Adaptation, Academic Achievement, Happiness, and Problematic Smartphone Usage: A Multiple Informant Moderated Mediating Model	9
Body Dissatisfaction and Social Anxiety among Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model of Feeling of Inferiority, Family Cohesion and Friendship Quality	9
Developing Social Entrepreneurship as an Intervention to Enhance Disadvantaged Young People’s Sense of Self-Worth and Career Competence in Hong Kong	9
Subjective Wellbeing and the Social Responsibilities of Business: an Exploratory Investigation of Australian Perspectives	9
Unraveling the Relationship between Well-Being, Sustainable Consumption and Nature Relatedness: a Study of University Students	8
The Significance of Family Structure in Internalizing (Anxious/Depressed) and Externalizing (Aggressive/Delinquent) Problems among Chinese Adolescents	8
Measurement of Quality of Life in Spanish Regions	8
Quality of Life among Adolescents in Hong Kong: General and Gender-Specific Effects of Self-Efficacy and Mindfulness	8
The Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Self-Reported Health: Evidence from Ecuador	8
Happy but Unequal: Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia	8
Access to Epidemic Information and Life Satisfaction under the Period of COVID-19: the Mediating Role of Perceived Stress and the Moderating Role of Friendship Quality	8
Alternative Recipes for Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Five World Regions	8
Work Transitions, Gender, and Subjective Well-Being	8
Social Contact, Academic Satisfaction, COVID-19 Knowledge, and Subjective Well-being Among Students at Turkish Universities: a Nine-University Sample	8
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	8
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	8
Work, Leisure, and Life Satisfaction for Employees with Physical Disabilities in South Korea	7
Family, Collectivism, and Loneliness from a Cross-Country Perspective	7
Effects of Inter-Parental Conflict on Children’s Social Well-Being and the Mediation Role of Parenting Behavior	7
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	7
Enriching Lives: How Spending Time with Pets is Related to the Experiential Well-Being of Older Americans	7
On the Role of Mental Health Activities for Teachers’ Work and Life	7
Is Working from Home a Blessing or a Burden? Home Demands as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Work Engagement and Work-Life Balance	7

Why Do Individuals Engage with the Natural World? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Effect of Nature Engagement and Well-Being	7
Unemployed at Midlife: Coping Strategies that Safeguard Well-Being	7
The Role of a “Happy Personality” in the Relationship of Subjective Social Status and Domain-Specific Satisfaction in China	7
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	7
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	6
Social Capital, Negative Event, Life Satisfaction and Sustainable Community: Evidence from 37 Countries	6
Who Becomes Unhappy when Income Inequality Increases?	6
Social Status and Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Adults: Mediating Effect of Future Time Perspective	6
Exploring the Relationship between Social Class and Quality of Life: the Mediating Role of Power and Status	6
Influence of Positive Parenting Styles on Self-Regulated Learning in Chinese Adolescents Testing the Mediating Effects of Self-Esteem	6
Health-Related Quality of Life, Functioning and Social Experiences in People with Psychotic Disorders	6
Can Teleworking Improve Workers’ Job Satisfaction? Exploring the Roles of Gender and Emotional Well-Being	6
Organizational Work-Home Culture and its Relations with the Work–Family Interface and Employees’ Subjective Well-being	6
Are all Life Domains Created Equal? Domain Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Research	6
Effects of Paternalistic Leadership on Quality of Life of Grassroots Officials in China: Mediation Effects of Burnout	6
Educational Expectations of Left-behind Children in China: Determinants and Gender Differences	6
Between Work Conditions and Job Outcomes: Testing a Nomological Network of Life Satisfaction	6
The Willingness to get Vaccinated Against SARS-CoV-2 Virus among Southeast Asian Countries: Does the Vaccine Brand Matter?	5
European Union Cohesion Policy: Socio-Economic Vulnerability of the Regions and the COVID-19 Shock	5
Cultivating the Psychological Well-Being of Early-Childhood Education Teachers: the Importance of Quality Work Life	5
The Subjective Well-Being of Chilean Children Living in Conditions of High Social Vulnerability	5
Is Paid Inflexible Work Better than Unpaid Housework for Women’s Mental Health? The Moderating Role of Parenthood	5
The Data Envelopment Analysis and Equal Weights/Minimax Methods of Composite Social Indicator Construction: a Methodological Study of Data Sensitivity and Robustness	5
Effect of Volunteering and Pensions on Subjective Wellbeing of Elderly–are there Cross-Country Differences?	5
Female Parliamentarians and the Distribution of National Happiness	5
Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect	5
The Mediating Effect of Financial Motives in the Association between Entrepreneurial Experience and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Japan	5
PERMA-Profiler for the Evaluation of well-being: Adaptation and Validation in a Sample of University Students and Employees in the Mexican Educational Context	5
Quality of Life among Caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability, and Typical Development	5
Effects of Father-Adolescent and Mother-Adolescent Relationships on Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Early Adolescents	5
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Mental Health Among Chinese Migrant and Left-Behind Children: A Meta-analysis	5
Longitudinal Relations Between Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction Over 15 Years	5
Household Happiness and Fuel Poverty: a Cross-Sectional Analysis on Turkey	5
The Impact of Childhood Emotional Abuse on Adolescents’ Subjective Happiness: the Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence	5
The Age and Gender Effect on Four Forms of Peer Victimization among Chinese Children and Adolescents	5
Housing Conditions and Adolescents’ Socioemotional Well-being: An Empirical Examination from China	5
Measuring Specific Purpose Orientations in Working Adults	5
Women’s Parliamentary Representation and Sustainable Development Goals: a Cross-Country Evidence	5
Navigating Risk Discourses: a Narrative Analysis of Parental Experiences in the Career and Life Development of Youth not in Education, Employment, or Training	4
Positive Affect, Self-Efficacy, Goal-Related Variables, and Life Satisfaction: the Role of Goal Attainment and Domain Value	4
The Association between Subjective Well-being and Regime Type across 78 countries: the moderating role of Political Trust	4
Domain-Specific Growth Mindsets and Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being Among Adolescents in Hong Kong	4
Demands, Resources, Well-Being and Strain: Meta-Analyzing Moderator Effects of Workforce Racial Composition	4
The Mental Health Benefits of kind University Climate: Perception of Kindness at University Relates to Longitudinal Increases in Well-Being	4
Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping	4
Is there an Upside to Social Withdrawal? Considering Well-Being among Socially Withdrawn Emerging Adults	4
Importance Weighting in the Domain-of-Life Approach to Subjective Well-Being: the Consideration of Age	4
Workplace flexibility, work–family interface, and psychological distress: differences by family caregiving obligations and gender	4
The Relationship Between Political Participation and Life Satisfaction Depends on Preference for Non-Democratic Solutions	4
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	4
Drivers of Subjective Well-being in Spain: Are There Gender Differences?	4
The Influence of Parental Migration on Left-behind Children’s Mental Health in China: the Mediating Roles of Daily Stress and Sense-Making	4
Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand when and how Money Buys Happiness: a Cross-Sectional and Intervention Study	4
Profiles of Employability and their Career and Psychological Implications among Unemployed Youth	4
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Sources of Resilience: Mechanisms of the Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Mental Health Among Migrant Children in China	4
The Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS): Further Evidence of Factorial Structure, Reliability, and Relations with Other Indicators of Subjective Wellbeing	4
Narrative Economics, Public Policy and Mental Health	4
Development of the Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS): Content-Related Validity Evidence Based on Adolescents’ and Expert Reviewers’ Perspectives	4
The Life Satisfaction of Owner-Manager Entrepreneurs When the Business of Business is not only Business	4
Do High Performance Work Systems Improve Workplace Well-Being in SMES? Implications for Financial Performance	4