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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Quality of Life: Twelve Reflections	122
Global Evidence on the Determinants of Public Trust in Governments during the COVID-19	63
“My Entire World Stopped”: College Students’ Psychosocial and Academic Frustrations during the COVID-19 Pandemic	48
The Efficient Assessment of Self-Esteem: Proposing the Brief Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	40
Health-Related Quality of Life during COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing Impacts of Job Loss and Financial Support Programs in Japan	33
Mental Disorders Associated with COVID-19 Related Unemployment	30
How Trust Makes a Difference: The Impact of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Satisfaction in Germany	30
Satisfaction with HyFlex Teaching and Law-abiding Leadership Education in Hong Kong University Students Under COVID-19	28
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	27
Filial Piety, Generativity and Older Adults’ Wellbeing and Loneliness in Denmark and China	25
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	23
Editorial: Special Issue on Quality of Life among Children and Adolescents in Chinese Societies	22
Worker Well-Being: What it Is, and how it Should Be Measured	21
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	21
The Contribution of Positive and Negative Affect to Life Satisfaction across Age	21
The impact of exogenous shocks on national wellbeing. New Zealanders’ reaction to COVID-19	19
The Satisfaction with Life Scale in Adolescent Samples: Measurement Invariance across 24 Countries and Regions, Age, and Gender	18
Editorial: Children and Adolescent Quality of Life under Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	18
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	18
Who benefits and appreciates more? An evaluation of Online Service-Learning Projects in Mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Prioritizing Happiness has Important Implications for Mental Health, but Perhaps Only if you Already are Happy	16
Gender Differences in Psychological Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood	15
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	15
Characterizing Hope: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Characteristics of Hope	15
Predictors to Happiness in Primary Students: Positive Relationships or Academic Achievement	15

Family Economic Strain and Adolescent Aggression during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Roles of Interparental Conflict and Parent–Child Conflict	15
Social Policies and Theories on Quality of Life under COVID-19: In Search of the Missing Links	15
Association Between The Search For Meaning In Life And Well-Being In Chinese Adolescents	14
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	14
Promoting Service Leadership Qualities and Well-Being among University Students: Evaluation Findings in Hong Kong	14
Can Teleworking Improve Workers’ Job Satisfaction? Exploring the Roles of Gender and Emotional Well-Being	14
Housing and Subjective Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model	14
Why Do Individuals Engage with the Natural World? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Effect of Nature Engagement and Well-Being	13
Effects of Inter-Parental Conflict on Children’s Social Well-Being and the Mediation Role of Parenting Behavior	13
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	13
Unraveling the Relationship between Well-Being, Sustainable Consumption and Nature Relatedness: a Study of University Students	12
Emotional Competence as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Internet Addiction and Negative Emotion in Young Adolescents in Hong Kong	12
Multidimensional Retirement Planning Behaviors, Retirement Confidence, and Post-Retirement Health and Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults in Hong Kong	12
Is Working from Home a Blessing or a Burden? Home Demands as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Work Engagement and Work-Life Balance	12
Family Conflicts, Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation of Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong	11
Health-Related Quality of Life of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Germany: a Cross-Sectional Study with Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel	11
Cultivating the Psychological Well-Being of Early-Childhood Education Teachers: the Importance of Quality Work Life	11
Quality of Life among Adolescents in Hong Kong: General and Gender-Specific Effects of Self-Efficacy and Mindfulness	11
Body Dissatisfaction and Social Anxiety among Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model of Feeling of Inferiority, Family Cohesion and Friendship Quality	11
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	11
Social Contact, Academic Satisfaction, COVID-19 Knowledge, and Subjective Well-being Among Students at Turkish Universities: a Nine-University Sample	10
The Relationship between Children’s School Adaptation, Academic Achievement, Happiness, and Problematic Smartphone Usage: A Multiple Informant Moderated Mediating Model	10
Who Becomes Unhappy when Income Inequality Increases?	10
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	10
Developing Social Entrepreneurship as an Intervention to Enhance Disadvantaged Young People’s Sense of Self-Worth and Career Competence in Hong Kong	10
Who is Left Behind? Altruism of Giving, Happiness and Mental Health during the Covid-19 Period in the UK	10
Socioeconomic Status, Peer Social Capital, and Quality of Life of High School Students During COVID-19: A Mediation Analysis	10
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	9
Work, Leisure, and Life Satisfaction for Employees with Physical Disabilities in South Korea	9
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	9
The Impact of Residents' Leisure Time Allocation Mode on Individual Subjective Well-being: The Case of China	9
Alternative Recipes for Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Five World Regions	9
The Significance of Family Structure in Internalizing (Anxious/Depressed) and Externalizing (Aggressive/Delinquent) Problems among Chinese Adolescents	9
Happy but Unequal: Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia	8
On the Role of Mental Health Activities for Teachers’ Work and Life	8
Longitudinal Relations Between Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction Over 15 Years	8
Family, Collectivism, and Loneliness from a Cross-Country Perspective	8
Women’s Parliamentary Representation and Sustainable Development Goals: a Cross-Country Evidence	8
Relationship between Internet Use and Negative Affect	8
The Impact of Childhood Emotional Abuse on Adolescents’ Subjective Happiness: the Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence	8
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Mental Health Among Chinese Migrant and Left-Behind Children: A Meta-analysis	8
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	8
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	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	7
Organizational Work-Home Culture and its Relations with the Work–Family Interface and Employees’ Subjective Well-being	7
Domain-Specific Growth Mindsets and Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being Among Adolescents in Hong Kong	7
Household Happiness and Fuel Poverty: a Cross-Sectional Analysis on Turkey	7
Effects of Father-Adolescent and Mother-Adolescent Relationships on Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Early Adolescents	7
The Association between Subjective Well-being and Regime Type across 78 countries: the moderating role of Political Trust	7
Educational Expectations of Left-behind Children in China: Determinants and Gender Differences	7

European Union Cohesion Policy: Socio-Economic Vulnerability of the Regions and the COVID-19 Shock	7
Enriching Lives: How Spending Time with Pets is Related to the Experiential Well-Being of Older Americans	7
Housing Conditions and Adolescents’ Socioemotional Well-being: An Empirical Examination from China	7
Are all Life Domains Created Equal? Domain Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Research	7
Assessing Detrimental Influences of Fear of Missing Out on Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Self-Presentation, Upward Contrast, and Social Media Stalking	7
Social Capital, Negative Event, Life Satisfaction and Sustainable Community: Evidence from 37 Countries	6
Social Status and Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Adults: Mediating Effect of Future Time Perspective	6
The Influence of Parental Migration on Left-behind Children’s Mental Health in China: the Mediating Roles of Daily Stress and Sense-Making	6
Between Work Conditions and Job Outcomes: Testing a Nomological Network of Life Satisfaction	6
Is Paid Inflexible Work Better than Unpaid Housework for Women’s Mental Health? The Moderating Role of Parenthood	6
The Rapid Decline of Happiness: Exploring Life Satisfaction among Young People across the World	6
The Contribution of Sex to Quality of Life in Modern Societies	6
The Long Arm of an Unsupportive Work-Family Culture in Work Organizations: Crossover to the Partner’s Work-Family Balance Satisfaction in Dual-Earner Couples	6
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	6
The Age and Gender Effect on Four Forms of Peer Victimization among Chinese Children and Adolescents	6
A Study on the Relationship Between Marital Socioeconomic Status, Marital Satisfaction, and Depression: Analysis Based on Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (APIM)	6
Workplace flexibility, work–family interface, and psychological distress: differences by family caregiving obligations and gender	6
Gender Differences in Children’s Psychological Well-Being in Mainland China: Risk and Protective Factors	6
Influence of Positive Parenting Styles on Self-Regulated Learning in Chinese Adolescents Testing the Mediating Effects of Self-Esteem	6
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	6
The Mediating Effect of Financial Motives in the Association between Entrepreneurial Experience and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Japan	6
The Subjective Well-Being of Chilean Children Living in Conditions of High Social Vulnerability	6
Measuring Specific Purpose Orientations in Working Adults	6
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	6
The Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS): Further Evidence of Factorial Structure, Reliability, and Relations with Other Indicators of Subjective Wellbeing	6
The Relationship Between Political Participation and Life Satisfaction Depends on Preference for Non-Democratic Solutions	6
The Key to Work–Life Balance is (Enriched) Job Design? Three-Way Interaction Effects with Formalization and Adaptive Personality Characteristics	5
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Sources of Resilience: Mechanisms of the Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Mental Health Among Migrant Children in China	5
Demands, Resources, Well-Being and Strain: Meta-Analyzing Moderator Effects of Workforce Racial Composition	5
Is there an Upside to Social Withdrawal? Considering Well-Being among Socially Withdrawn Emerging Adults	5
COVID-19 and Subjective Well-Being in Urban Pakistan in the Beginning of the Pandemic: A Socio-Economic Analysis	5
Network and solitude satisfaction as modifiers of disadvantages in the quality of life of older persons who are challenged by exclusion from social relations: a gender stratified analysis	5
Life Satisfaction of Gifted and Average Adolescents in Hong Kong: Validation of the Chinese Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS)	5
Professional Financial Advice and Subjective Well-Being	5
Reconsidering the Conceptualization of Resilience: The Experiences of Refugee and Immigrant Youth in Montreal	5
Can the Government Make Us Happier? Institutional Quality and Subjective Well-Being Across Europe	5
The effect of job quality on quality of life and wellbeing in later career stages: A multilevel and longitudinal analysis on older workers in Europe	5
The Effects of Urban Living Conditions on Subjective Well-Being: The Case of German Foreign Service Employees	5
The Willingness to get Vaccinated Against SARS-CoV-2 Virus among Southeast Asian Countries: Does the Vaccine Brand Matter?	5
Do High Performance Work Systems Improve Workplace Well-Being in SMES? Implications for Financial Performance	5
Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping	5
Quality of Life among Caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability, and Typical Development	4
The Rugged Resilience Measure: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Brief Measure of Personal Resilience	4
Contextual Influence of Risk and Protective Factors on Chinese Adolescent Psychological Well-Being, Delinquent Behavior and Academic Performance: the Role of Family and Friends	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
Narrative Economics, Public Policy and Mental Health	4
Ethnic Disparities and the Psychological Trauma of Maltreated Children: Evidence from Three Multi-ethnic Counties in China	4
Applied Research in Quality of Life: A Computational Literature Review	4
The Mediating Roles of Subjective Well-being Increasing Strategies and Emotional Autonomy Between Adolescents’ Body Image and Subjective Well-being	4
The Mental Health Benefits of kind University Climate: Perception of Kindness at University Relates to Longitudinal Increases in Well-Being	4
A Path Model of Meaning in Life among University Students: The Roles of Gratitude, Self-Concept Clarity and Self-Construal	4
Double Jeopardy: The Roles of Job Autonomy and Spousal Gender Ideology in Employed Women’s Mental Health	4
Community Members Prioritise Indicators of Both Mental Health and Wellbeing to Define Flourishing and Quality of Life: Towards The Total Psychological Health Framework	4
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	4
Cultural Participation and Subjective Well-Being of Indigenous in Latin America	4
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	4
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	4
Free-Market, Perfect Market and Welfare State Perspectives on “Good” Markets: an Empirical Test	4
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	4
The Life Satisfaction of Owner-Manager Entrepreneurs When the Business of Business is not only Business	4
Importance Weighting in the Domain-of-Life Approach to Subjective Well-Being: the Consideration of Age	4
COVID-19 and Higher Education: A Qualitative Study on Academic Experiences of African International Students in the Midwest	4
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	4
The Effects of Parental Labor Migration on Children’s Mental Health in Rural China	4
A Strengths-Based Longitudinal Career Intervention for Junior Secondary School Students with Special Educational Needs: a Mixed-method Evaluation	4
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	4
The Impact of Household Assets on Child Well-being: Evidence from China	4
Development of the Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS): Content-Related Validity Evidence Based on Adolescents’ and Expert Reviewers’ Perspectives	4