Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research
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Kubzansky, Laura D.
Kim, Eric S.
Boehm, Julia K.
Davidson, Richard J.
Huffman, Jeffrey C.
Loucks, Eric B.
Lyubomirsky, Sonja
Picard, Rosalind W.
Schueller, Stephen M.
Trudel-Fitzgerald, Claudia
Date Issued
March 3, 2023
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Springer International Publishing
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Kubzansky, Laura D., Kim, Eric S., Boehm, Julia K., Davidson, Richard J., Huffman, Jeffrey C. et al. 2023. "Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research."
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Psychological well-being, characterized by feelings, cognitions, and strategies that are associated with positive functioning (including hedonic and eudaimonic well-being), has been linked with better physical health and greater longevity. Importantly, psychological well-being can be strengthened with interventions, providing a strategy for improving population health. But are the effects of well-being interventions meaningful, durable, and scalable enough to improve health at a population-level? To assess this possibility, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars convened to review current knowledge and develop a research agenda. Here we summarize and build on the key insights from this convening, which were: (1) existing interventions should continue to be adapted to achieve a large-enough effect to result in downstream improvements in psychological functioning and health, (2) research should determine the durability of interventions needed to drive population-level and lasting changes, (3) a shift from individual-level care and treatment to a public-health model of population-level prevention is needed and will require new infrastructure that can deliver interventions at scale, (4) interventions should be accessible and effective in racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse samples. A discussion examining the key future research questions follows.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00167-w
