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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
School Acceptance and Support Moderate the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior: A Longitudinal Study	46
Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study	37
How Government Stereotypes Affect Life Satisfaction: a Good Government Matters More Than a Government That Does Good	36
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	31
Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States	31
Unrevealing the Mediating Mechanisms Between Material Deprivation and Children’s Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being	28
The Impact of Age, COVID-19 and Physical Activity on Life Satisfaction in the European Union: A Cross-Sectional Analysis	26
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	26
Eudaimonia in Sourdough: Understanding Well-Being in the Sensory Experiences of Artisanal Activities	26
Long Working Hours and Job Satisfaction in Platform Employment: An Empirical Study of On-Demand Delivery Couriers in China	25
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	25
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	24
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	24
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
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	23
Perceived Parental Psychopathology and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: Indirect Effects through Psychopathy	22
Educational Expectations of Left-behind Children in China: Determinants and Gender Differences	22
Health-Related Quality of Life: Measurement Tools, Predictors and Modifiers	22
The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?	21
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	21
Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses	21
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	20
Does the Dibao Program Improve Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in China? Perceptions of Pathways of Poverty Attribution and Income Inequality	19
The Impact of Citizens’ Satisfaction with National-level Institutions and Conditions on Their Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from 137 Countries	19
Gender Differences in Children’s Psychological Well-Being in Mainland China: Risk and Protective Factors	19

Bidirectional Mediating Effects between Problematic Internet Use and Obesity-Related Eating Behavior on College Students’ Sub-Health Status: A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis	19
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	19
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	18
Transmission of Educational Outcomes Across Three Generations: Evidence From Migrant Workers’ Children in China	18
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Minnesota Long-Stay Resident Quality of Life Survey	17
Spatial Patterns of Subjective Well-Being on the Aquitaine Coastline, France	15
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	15
The Impact of Short-Term Study in China Programs: Voices of Hong Kong University Students	14
50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues	14
Having a Partner or Living with a Partner: Differences in Life Satisfaction and Mental Health	14
Validation of the Short‐Form 36 Health Survey (SF‐36) for use in Mexican older persons	14
The Role of Environmental, Economic, and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in the Quality of Life in Spain	13
Material Conditions and Their Relationship with Affective Components of Subjective Well-being in Children	13
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	13
Understanding Teacher Educators' Quality of Life: Insights from the PERMA Model	13
The Paradox of Parental Workaholism: How Incongruence Promotes Student Engagement and Congruence Reduces Student Engagement	13
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	13
Co-parenting Pathways from Grandparents’ Psychological Control to Parents’ Depressive Symptoms	13
Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation	13
Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line	12
Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain	12
Gender Differences in Desired Alone Time Among Canadian Parents of Young Children	12
Universal Basic Income and Autonomous Work Motivation: Influences on Trajectories of Mental Health in Employees	12
Housing and Subjective Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model	11
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	11
Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data	11
Perceived Unfairness Moderates the Association Between Relative Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being: Findings from an East Asian Country	11
Parenting Attitudes and Korean Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Dependency: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression	11
Using Autonomous Teams to Improve Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities	10
Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world	10
Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona	10
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	10
Trajectories of Canadian Workers’ Well-Being During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing	10
‘Bad Jobs’ in Europe: Derivation and Analysis of a Wellbeing-Related Job Quality Threshold	10
Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran	10
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	10
Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment	10
Do Affective States Influence the Receptivity of Hope Intervention? A Three-Week Self-Administered Online Hope Intervention	10
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
The Breakup of Binational Couples: Analyzing the Importance of Cultural Dissimilarity in the Couple Well-Being	9
“Withdrawal Syndrome”: The Effects of Acts of Microaggression in the Classroom on Racialized Students	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
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
Women’s Mental Health During COVID-19 in South Africa	9
Housing Conditions and Adolescents’ Socioemotional Well-being: An Empirical Examination from China	9
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
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

Economic Insecurity, Perceived Stress, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study on Mental Health	8
Cultivating the Psychological Well-Being of Early-Childhood Education Teachers: the Importance of Quality Work Life	8
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
Informal Caregivers’ Benefits of Residing in a Neighborhood with High Social Participation: A Multilevel Analysis in Japan	8
Longitudinal Associations of Gratitude with Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being: A Two-Wave Study	8
Perspectives on Well-being of Older Adults and Young People in Taiwan- A Q-Methodology Study	8
Why Do Individuals Engage with the Natural World? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Effect of Nature Engagement and Well-Being	8
“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement	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
Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes	7
How can the Social Family Climate Contribute to Emotional Intelligence in Preventing Suicidal Ideation and Promoting Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents?	7
Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model	7
The Impact of Covid19 on the Urban–Rural Happiness	7
Ming-Chang Tsai: A Pioneer in Comparative Quality of Life Research	7
Gratitude as a Protective Factor for Cybervictimisation and Anxiety Symptomatology: A Prospective Study	7
Gender Disparities in Childhood Poverty and Employment Quality among Young Adult Workers in South Korea	6
Correction to: Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	6
Happily Distant or Bitter Medicine? The Impact of Social Distancing Preferences, Behavior, and Emotional Costs on Subjective Wellbeing During the Epidemic	6
Cyberbullying Following Cyber-Victimization Among Chinese Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Normative Beliefs About Aggression	6
Valuing the Wellbeing Associated with Psychosocial Factors at Work	6
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	6
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	6
The Higher the Education, the Less Leisure Time? - An Empirical Analysis from CTUS	6
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	6
Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Policy in Mainland China	6
Ethnic Disparities and the Psychological Trauma of Maltreated Children: Evidence from Three Multi-ethnic Counties in China	6
Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	6
The Effects of Parental Labor Migration on Children’s Mental Health in Rural China	6
Conceptualization of self-oriented parenting perfectionism and its Associations with parents’ wellbeing among Chinese parents	6
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	6
The Role of Spirituality and Beliefs in the Future in the Mental Health of Chinese Adolescents During the Pandemic	6
Generational Differences in Subjective Well-Being in Australia	6
The Indirect Effect of Mindfulness in Marriage in the Relationship Between Digital Stress and Dyadic Adjustment: An Investigation of Dyadic Effects	6
“Helping Others Makes Me Feel Better”: Trait Gratitude, Resilience, and Helping Behavior Improve Mental Health during a COVID-19 Lockdown	6
Psychosocial Influences on Coping and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research	6
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	6
Exploring the Association between Multidimensional Poverty and Depression Using Structural Equation Models	6
Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies	6
Mixed-Sex Peer Interactions and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents	6
Trajectories of Self-Control in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Academic, Psychological, and Career Development among Chinese College Students	6
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	6
A Meta-Analysis of Neighbourhood Interventions on Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health	5
Editorial: Children and Adolescent Quality of Life under Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	5
Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response	5
Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses	5
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	5
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	5
Is Educational Aspiration Mismatch Associated With Depressive Symptomatology? An Analysis of Mother-Adolescent Dyads	5
Changes in Job Strain in the US, Europe and Korea	5
Wellbeing Heterogeneity within and Among University Students	5
The Dual Effects of Passion on Leisure Wellbeing: Toward a Theory of Engagement in Diverse Leisure Activities	5
“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?	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
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	5
Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction:	5
What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana	5
Assessing Human Development in Nepal through Descriptive and Cluster Analysis: Progress and Disparities	5
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Capital as Tools for Managing Fluctuations in Well-Being Throughout the Voyage of Life	5
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	5
The relationship between problematic social media use and health behavior: An exploratory specification curve analysis of large-scale survey data	5
Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effects of Economic and Subjective Poverty on Life Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Hong Kong	5
Early Childhood Care Trends and Associations with Child Health Well-being in China: Evidence from the CHNS 1991 to 2011 Data	5