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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
School Acceptance and Support Moderate the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior: A Longitudinal Study	62
Unrevealing the Mediating Mechanisms Between Material Deprivation and Children’s Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being	36
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	35
Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study	34
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	30
How Government Stereotypes Affect Life Satisfaction: a Good Government Matters More Than a Government That Does Good	27
Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States	26
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	26
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	24
Past and Present Subjective Well-being: the Role of Contrast and Memory	23
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	23
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	23
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	22
Eudaimonia in Sourdough: Understanding Well-Being in the Sensory Experiences of Artisanal Activities	22
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis	19
Health-Related Quality of Life: Measurement Tools, Predictors and Modifiers	19
Perceived Parental Psychopathology and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: Indirect Effects through Psychopathy	19
Happier Elderly Residents. The Positive Impact of Physical Activity on Objective and Subjective Health Condition of Elderly People in Nursing Homes. Evidence from a Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Tr	19
The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?	19
Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses	19
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	19
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	18
Educational Expectations of Left-behind Children in China: Determinants and Gender Differences	18
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	18

Gender Differences in Children’s Psychological Well-Being in Mainland China: Risk and Protective Factors	17
Validation of the Short‐Form 36 Health Survey (SF‐36) for use in Mexican older persons	17
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	16
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Minnesota Long-Stay Resident Quality of Life Survey	16
Does the Dibao Program Improve Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in China? Perceptions of Pathways of Poverty Attribution and Income Inequality	16
Co-parenting Pathways from Grandparents’ Psychological Control to Parents’ Depressive Symptoms	16
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
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	15
Spatial Patterns of Subjective Well-Being on the Aquitaine Coastline, France	14
Transmission of Educational Outcomes Across Three Generations: Evidence From Migrant Workers’ Children in China	14
50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues	13
Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation	13
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	13
Having a Partner or Living with a Partner: Differences in Life Satisfaction and Mental Health	12
The Impact of Citizens’ Satisfaction with National-level Institutions and Conditions on Their Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from 137 Countries	12
Material Conditions and Their Relationship with Affective Components of Subjective Well-being in Children	12
The Role of Environmental, Economic, and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in the Quality of Life in Spain	12
Understanding Teacher Educators' Quality of Life: Insights from the PERMA Model	12
The Impact of Short-Term Study in China Programs: Voices of Hong Kong University Students	12
Universal Basic Income and Autonomous Work Motivation: Influences on Trajectories of Mental Health in Employees	12
Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain	12
The Influence of Intelligence in Young Adulthood on Quality of Life in Midlife: a Danish Cohort Study of 893 Men	11
Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran	11
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	11
Gender Differences in Desired Alone Time Among Canadian Parents of Young Children	10
Parenting Attitudes and Korean Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Dependency: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression	10
Perceived Unfairness Moderates the Association Between Relative Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being: Findings from an East Asian Country	10
Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line	10
Using Autonomous Teams to Improve Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities	10
Trajectories of Canadian Workers’ Well-Being During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world	10
‘Bad Jobs’ in Europe: Derivation and Analysis of a Wellbeing-Related Job Quality Threshold	9
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	9
Do Affective States Influence the Receptivity of Hope Intervention? A Three-Week Self-Administered Online Hope Intervention	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
Housing and Subjective Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model	9
“Withdrawal Syndrome”: The Effects of Acts of Microaggression in the Classroom on Racialized Students	9
Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing	9
Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data	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	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
Housing Conditions and Adolescents’ Socioemotional Well-being: An Empirical Examination from China	8
Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona	8
The Breakup of Binational Couples: Analyzing the Importance of Cultural Dissimilarity in the Couple Well-Being	8
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	8
Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment	8
Women’s Mental Health During COVID-19 in South Africa	8
Sonja Lyubomirsky: Pioneer in the Empirical Study of Happiness and Well-Being Interventions	8
Intergenerational Relationship Types and Attitude Toward Retirement: Do Gender and Number of Children Matter?	8

Perspectives on Well-being of Older Adults and Young People in Taiwan- A Q-Methodology Study	7
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
Longitudinal Associations of Gratitude with Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being: A Two-Wave Study	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
Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model	7
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	7
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	7
Cultivating the Psychological Well-Being of Early-Childhood Education Teachers: the Importance of Quality Work Life	7
Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping	7
Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies	7
Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes	7
Why Do Individuals Engage with the Natural World? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Effect of Nature Engagement and Well-Being	7
Informal Caregivers’ Benefits of Residing in a Neighborhood with High Social Participation: A Multilevel Analysis in Japan	7
Ming-Chang Tsai: A Pioneer in Comparative Quality of Life Research	7
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
Gratitude as a Protective Factor for Cybervictimisation and Anxiety Symptomatology: A Prospective Study	7
The Impact of Covid19 on the Urban–Rural Happiness	6
The Indirect Effect of Mindfulness in Marriage in the Relationship Between Digital Stress and Dyadic Adjustment: An Investigation of Dyadic Effects	6
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	6
Editorial: Children and Adolescent Quality of Life under Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	6
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	6
“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement	6
How can the Social Family Climate Contribute to Emotional Intelligence in Preventing Suicidal Ideation and Promoting Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents?	6
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	6
Psychosocial Influences on Coping and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research	6
The Higher the Education, the Less Leisure Time? - An Empirical Analysis from CTUS	6
Generational Differences in Subjective Well-Being in Australia	6
Trajectories of Self-Control in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Academic, Psychological, and Career Development among Chinese College Students	6
The Effects of Parental Labor Migration on Children’s Mental Health in Rural China	6
The Dual Effects of Passion on Leisure Wellbeing: Toward a Theory of Engagement in Diverse Leisure Activities	5
Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	5
Valuing the Wellbeing Associated with Psychosocial Factors at Work	5
Cyberbullying Following Cyber-Victimization Among Chinese Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Normative Beliefs About Aggression	5
Correction to: Free-Market, Perfect Market and Welfare State Perspectives on “Good” Markets: an Empirical Test	5
“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?	5
Conceptualization of self-oriented parenting perfectionism and its Associations with parents’ wellbeing among Chinese parents	5
Exploring the Association between Multidimensional Poverty and Depression Using Structural Equation Models	5
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	5
Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses	5
Ethnic Disparities and the Psychological Trauma of Maltreated Children: Evidence from Three Multi-ethnic Counties in China	5
Correction to: Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	5
Gender Disparities in Childhood Poverty and Employment Quality among Young Adult Workers in South Korea	5
“Helping Others Makes Me Feel Better”: Trait Gratitude, Resilience, and Helping Behavior Improve Mental Health during a COVID-19 Lockdown	5
Happily Distant or Bitter Medicine? The Impact of Social Distancing Preferences, Behavior, and Emotional Costs on Subjective Wellbeing During the Epidemic	5
Patterns of Sexuality, Adjustment to Aging and Satisfaction with Life: A Cluster Analysis of Adults Across the Lifespan	4
What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana	4
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	4
Early Childhood Care Trends and Associations with Child Health Well-being in China: Evidence from the CHNS 1991 to 2011 Data	4
Examining the Pathways from General Trust Through Social Connectedness to Subjective Wellbeing	4
A Multilevel Longitudinal Study of Individual, Household and Village Factors Associated with Happiness Among Adults in the Southernmost Provinces of Thailand	4
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Metaphors on Anxiety Symptoms Among Chinese Graduate Students: The Mediation Effect of Worry	4
Assessing Human Development in Nepal through Descriptive and Cluster Analysis: Progress and Disparities	4
A Meta-Analysis of Neighbourhood Interventions on Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health	4
Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effects of Economic and Subjective Poverty on Life Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Hong Kong	4
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	4
Determinants of Life Satisfaction and Self-Perceived Health in Nationally Representative Population-Based Samples, Canada, 2009 to 2018	4
What Constitutes Well-being? Five Views Among Adult People from the Netherlands on what is Important for a Good Life	4
The Rugged Resilience Measure: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Brief Measure of Personal Resilience	4
Why are adolescents harshly punished by parents more vulnerable to bullying victimization? Evidence across nine countries	4
Social Relationships as Mediators of Material Deprivation, School Bullying Victimization, and Subjective Well-Being among Children Across 25 Countries: A Global and Cross-National Perspective	4
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	4
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	4
The relationship between problematic social media use and health behavior: An exploratory specification curve analysis of large-scale survey data	4
Wellbeing Heterogeneity within and Among University Students	4
Is Educational Aspiration Mismatch Associated With Depressive Symptomatology? An Analysis of Mother-Adolescent Dyads	4
Confidence in Societal Institutions Extends Citizens’ Radius of Trust, Leading to Even Greater Life Satisfaction in Societies with Stronger Rule of Law	4
Exploring the Work-Life Spillover of Voice Practices: The Role of Voice Instrumentality in Improving the Quality of Employees’ Lives	4
Impact of Institutional Quality on the Quality of Life in Africa: An Economic Approach	4
Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response	4
Changes in Job Strain in the US, Europe and Korea	4