OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Research in Quality of Life is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Government Stereotypes Affect Life Satisfaction: a Good Government Matters More Than a Government That Does Good	84
From Play To Progress: The Impact of Extracurricular Activities on Early Childhood Development and Inequality	36
Colombia: Unlivable but Happy?	34
Monitoring Wellbeing as a Warning Indicator: the U.S. Crisis of Deaths of Despair	34
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	32
Eudaimonia in Sourdough: Understanding Well-Being in the Sensory Experiences of Artisanal Activities	31
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	31
The Impact of Age, COVID-19 and Physical Activity on Life Satisfaction in the European Union: A Cross-Sectional Analysis	30
Thought Self-Leadership and Life Satisfaction among Older Volunteers: the Opposing Mediating Roles of Resilience and Death Anxiety	30
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	28
Long Working Hours and Job Satisfaction in Platform Employment: An Empirical Study of On-Demand Delivery Couriers in China	28
Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States	28
Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study	28
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	27
Antecedents and Child Quality-of-Life Outcomes of Parental Psychological Control: Observations, Unresolved Issues, and Future Research Directions	24
Unrevealing the Mediating Mechanisms Between Material Deprivation and Children’s Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being	24
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	23
Perceived Parental Psychopathology and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: Indirect Effects through Psychopathy	23
School Acceptance and Support Moderate the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior: A Longitudinal Study	23
Inter-Connections Among Multidimensional Domains of Quality of Life in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Hong Kong: A Network Analysis	20
The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?	20
Health-Related Quality of Life: Measurement Tools, Predictors and Modifiers	18
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	18
Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress	18
What Explains the Association Between Child Poverty and Depressive Symptoms? Serial Mediation Effects of Child Maltreatment Victimization and Smartphone Addiction	17

Do personality traits matter for wellbeing in Ghana? Who is poor but happy and non-poor but unhappy?	17
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis	17
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	17
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	17
The Ties that Bind Us: How Social Cohesion and Institutional Quality Shape Subjective Well-Being in Africa	17
Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses	16
The Paradox of Parental Workaholism: How Incongruence Promotes Student Engagement and Congruence Reduces Student Engagement	16
The Impact of Citizens’ Satisfaction with National-level Institutions and Conditions on Their Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from 137 Countries	16
Does the Dibao Program Improve Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in China? Perceptions of Pathways of Poverty Attribution and Income Inequality	16
Bidirectional Mediating Effects between Problematic Internet Use and Obesity-Related Eating Behavior on College Students’ Sub-Health Status: A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis	16
Longitudinal Relation between Childhood Maltreatment and Prosocial Behaviors: The Parallel Mediators of Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness	15
50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues	15
The Impact of Short-Term Study in China Programs: Voices of Hong Kong University Students	15
Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation	15
Spatial Patterns of Subjective Well-Being on the Aquitaine Coastline, France	14
Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain	14
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Minnesota Long-Stay Resident Quality of Life Survey	14
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	14
Understanding Teacher Educators' Quality of Life: Insights from the PERMA Model	13
Having a Partner or Living with a Partner: Differences in Life Satisfaction and Mental Health	13
Co-parenting Pathways from Grandparents’ Psychological Control to Parents’ Depressive Symptoms	13
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	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
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
Material Conditions and Their Relationship with Affective Components of Subjective Well-being in Children	13
Gender Differences in Desired Alone Time Among Canadian Parents of Young Children	12
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	12
Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line	12
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	12
Trajectories of Canadian Workers’ Well-Being During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	11
Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world	11
Lack of Family Intimacy as a Sufficient Condition for Impaired Social-Emotional Competence in Chinese Students: Evidence from a Large-Scale Qualitative Comparative Analysis Within the Cumulative Risk	11
Parenting Attitudes and Korean Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Dependency: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression	11
Editorial: Geography of Happiness and Well-being	11
Universal Basic Income and Autonomous Work Motivation: Influences on Trajectories of Mental Health in Employees	11
Perceived Unfairness Moderates the Association Between Relative Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being: Findings from an East Asian Country	11
‘Bad Jobs’ in Europe: Derivation and Analysis of a Wellbeing-Related Job Quality Threshold	10
Health-related Quality of Life among Children Living with Rare Diseases in China: a Nationwide Study	10
Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing	10
Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran	10
Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment	10
Intergenerational Relationship Types and Attitude Toward Retirement: Do Gender and Number of Children Matter?	10
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	10
Eudaimonic Well-Being Promotes Subjective Well-Being Through Perceived Job Quality: a Multilevel Mediation Analysis across 116 Countries	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	10
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	10
“Withdrawal Syndrome”: The Effects of Acts of Microaggression in the Classroom on Racialized Students	9

Father Identity Enactment and Paternal Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Roles of Contexts	9
Longitudinal Associations of Gratitude with Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being: A Two-Wave Study	9
Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona	9
Sonja Lyubomirsky: Pioneer in the Empirical Study of Happiness and Well-Being Interventions	9
The Impact of Belief in a Just World on the Association between Developmental Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms	9
Bicultural Acceptance Attitude as a Protective Factor Against the Effect of Acculturative Stress on Life Satisfaction Among Korean Multicultural Adolescents	9
When Stressed and Misaligned, Leisure Crafting Rebuilds: Mediating Role of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between College Students’ Leisure Crafting and Subjective Wellbeing	9
The Breakup of Binational Couples: Analyzing the Importance of Cultural Dissimilarity in the Couple Well-Being	9
Perspectives on Well-being of Older Adults and Young People in Taiwan- A Q-Methodology Study	9
Informal Caregivers’ Benefits of Residing in a Neighborhood with High Social Participation: A Multilevel Analysis in Japan	9
Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Policy in Mainland China	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
Daniel Kahneman: A Pioneer in Human Judgment and Decision-Making	8
The Impact of Covid19 on the Urban–Rural Happiness	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	8
Mixed-Sex Peer Interactions and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents	8
How can the Social Family Climate Contribute to Emotional Intelligence in Preventing Suicidal Ideation and Promoting Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents?	8
“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement	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
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	8
Transition Patterns of Intergenerational Solidarity and Digital Communication During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea: Association with Older Parents’ Cognitive Decline	8
Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies	8
The Indirect Effect of Mindfulness in Marriage in the Relationship Between Digital Stress and Dyadic Adjustment: An Investigation of Dyadic Effects	8
Addressing the Long-term Intergenerational Effects of Parental Psychological Distress and Offspring Loneliness on their Psychological Distress: Roles of the Dual Filial Piety Profiles	8
Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes	8
Economic Insecurity, Perceived Stress, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study on Mental Health	8
Women’s Mental Health During COVID-19 in South Africa	8
The Higher the Education, the Less Leisure Time? - An Empirical Analysis from CTUS	8
A Multidimensional Index of Social Quality of Life (MISQL)	8
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	8
The Role of Spirituality and Beliefs in the Future in the Mental Health of Chinese Adolescents During the Pandemic	7
Research on Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction: Progress and Opportunities	7
Gender Disparities in Childhood Poverty and Employment Quality among Young Adult Workers in South Korea	7
“Helping Others Makes Me Feel Better”: Trait Gratitude, Resilience, and Helping Behavior Improve Mental Health during a COVID-19 Lockdown	7
Psychosocial Influences on Coping and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research	7
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Capital as Tools for Managing Fluctuations in Well-Being Throughout the Voyage of Life	7
Gratitude as a Protective Factor for Cybervictimisation and Anxiety Symptomatology: A Prospective Study	7
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	7
Happily Distant or Bitter Medicine? The Impact of Social Distancing Preferences, Behavior, and Emotional Costs on Subjective Wellbeing During the Epidemic	7
Correction to: Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	7
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	7
Differential Impacts of Urban Risk Perception on Subjective Well-Being during COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Quality of Urban Life among Korean and Foreign Residents in Seoul	7
Valuing the Wellbeing Associated with Psychosocial Factors at Work	7
Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model	7
Trajectories of Self-Control in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Academic, Psychological, and Career Development among Chinese College Students	7
Cyberbullying Following Cyber-Victimization Among Chinese Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Normative Beliefs About Aggression	7
Exploring the Association between Multidimensional Poverty and Depression Using Structural Equation Models	7
Data-Driven Knowledge for Impact in Quality of Life Research	7
What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana	6
Wellbeing Heterogeneity within and Among University Students	6
Confidence in Societal Institutions Extends Citizens’ Radius of Trust, Leading to Even Greater Life Satisfaction in Societies with Stronger Rule of Law	6
Changes in Job Strain in the US, Europe and Korea	6
Measuring Care Work-Related Quality of Life: A Rasch Validation Study of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Workforce (ASCOT-Workforce)	6
Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses	6
Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effects of Economic and Subjective Poverty on Life Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Hong Kong	6
Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response	6
Assessing Human Development in Nepal through Descriptive and Cluster Analysis: Progress and Disparities	6
Perceived Economic Hardship and Adolescent Short-form Video Addiction: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	6
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	6
The relationship between problematic social media use and health behavior: An exploratory specification curve analysis of large-scale survey data	6
“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?	6
A Meta-Analysis of Neighbourhood Interventions on Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health	6
Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions in Research on Social-Emotional Learning Programs and Teacher Well-Being	6
Conceptualization of self-oriented parenting perfectionism and its Associations with parents’ wellbeing among Chinese parents	6
Patterns of Sexuality, Adjustment to Aging and Satisfaction with Life: A Cluster Analysis of Adults Across the Lifespan	6
Impact of Institutional Quality on the Quality of Life in Africa: An Economic Approach	6
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	6
The Dual Effects of Passion on Leisure Wellbeing: Toward a Theory of Engagement in Diverse Leisure Activities	6
Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction:	6
Living Near Contamination: The Impacts on Personal Well-Being	6