A Review of the Literature
We take great pride in our focus on existing research and theory to our efforts. Our expertise is strengthened through the integration of the breadth of research literature in diverse but related fields including:
Well-being
Data Analysis
Mindfulness
Mixed Methods Research
Clinical Psychology
Policy Development
Communication
Positive Psychology
I/O & Consulting
Social Psychology
Below is a bibliography of some of the literature that informs our work, organized by general theme (key articles are highlighted). We invite anyone to submit research that we will review for inclusion.
Selected Bibliography
Why Well-being Matters
Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. (2004). Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(1), 1-31.
Hafner, M., Van Stolk, C., Saunders, C., Krapels, J., & Baruch, B. (2015). Health, wellbeing and productivity in the workplace. RAND EUROPE.
Robertson, I., & Cooper, C. (2011). Well-being: Productivity and happiness at work. Palgrave Macmillan.
Harter, J. K., Schmidt, F. L., & Keyes, C. L. (2003). Well-being in the workplace and its relationship to business outcomes: A review of the Gallup studies. Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived, 2, 205-224.
S. Johnson, I. Robertson, & C.L. Cooper. (2018). Well-being: Productivity and happiness at work, 2nd Ed. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland
Emotional well-being linked to organizational performance
Taris, T. W., & Schreurs, P. J. (2009). Well-being and organizational performance: An organizational-level test of the happy-productive worker hypothesis. Work & Stress, 23(2), 120-136.
Attachment
Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L.M. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: a test of a four-category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 226-244.
Lopez, F.G., & Gormley, B. (2002). Stability and change in adult attachment style over the first-year college transition: Relations to self-confidence, coping, and distress patterns. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 49, 355-364. DOI: 10.1037//0022-0167.49.3.355
Markiewicz, D., Lawford, H., Doyle, AB., & Haggart, N. (2006). Developmental differences in adolescents’ and young adults’ use of mothers, fathers, best friends, and romantic partners to fulfill attachment needs. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 127-140.
Scharfe, E. & Bartholomew, K. (1994). Reliability and stability of adult attachment patterns. Personal Relationships, 1, 23-43.
Shaver, P.R., & Fraley, R.C. (2004). Self-report measures of adult attachment. Retrieved from: labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/measures/newmeasures.html
Belonging
Bollen, K.A., & Hoyle, R.H. (1990). Perceived cohesion: a conceptual and empirical examination. Social Forces, 69, 479-504.
Gullone, E. & Robinson, K. (2005). The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment – Revised (IPPA-R) for Children: a psychometric investigation. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 12, 67-79. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.433
Haussmann, L.R.M., Schofield, J.W., & Woods, R.L. (2007). Sense of belonging as predictor of intentions to persist among African American and white first-year college students. Research in Higher Education, 48, 803-839. DOI: 10.1007/s11162-007-9052-9
Hoffman, M., Richmond, J., Morrow, J., & Salomone, K. (2002). Investigating “sense of belonging” in first-year college students. Journal of College Student Retention, 4, 227-256.
Johnson, D.R., Soldner, M., Leonard, J.B., Alvarez, P., Inkelas, K.K. Longerbeam, S.D. (2007). Examining sense of belonging among first-year undergraduates from different racial/ethnic groups. Journal of College Student Development, 48, 525-542. DOI: 10.1353/csd.2007.0054
Jung, AK. (2014). Interpersonal and societal mattering in work: a review and critique. (2015). The Career Development Quarterly, 63, 194-208.
Schlossberg, N.K. (1989). Marginality and meaning: Key issues in building community. New Directions for Student Services, 48, 5-15.
Tafarodi, R.W., & Swann Jr., W.B. (2001). Two-dimensional self-esteem: theory and measurement. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, 653-673.
Tovar, E., & Simon, M.A. (2010). Factorial structure and invariance analysis of the Sense of Belonging Scales. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling Development, 43, 199-217. DOI: 10.1177/0748175610384811
Faculty Development
Camblin Jr., L.D., & Steger, J.A. (2000). Rethinking Faculty Development. Higher Education, 39, 1-18.
Cardaciotto, L., & Block-Lerner, J. (2016). The person of the professor: Applications of mindfulness and acceptance for faculty well-being and vitality. In J. Block-Lerner & L. Cardiciotto (Eds.). The Mindfulness-Informed Educator: Building Acceptance and Psychological Flexibility in Higher Education (pp. 43-56). New York, NY: Routledge.
Haines, D.J., Davis, L., Rancour, P., Robinson, M., Neel-Wilson, R., & Wagner, S. (2007). A pilot intervention to promote walking and wellness and to improve the health of college faculty and staff. Journal of American College Health, 55, 219-225. DOI: 10.3200/JACH.55.4.219-225
Simpson, D., Marcdante, K., Morzinski, J., Meurer, L., McLaughli, C.,…, Currey, L. (2006). Fifteen years of aligning faculty development with primary care clinician-educator roles and academic advancement at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Academic Medicine, 81, 945-953.
Sood, A., Prasad, K., Schroeder, D., & Varkey, P. (2011). Stress management and resilience training among department of medicine faculty: a pilot randomized clinical trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26, 858-861. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1640-x
Flourishing
Keyes, C.L.M. (2006). Mental health in adolescence: Is America’s youth flourishing? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76, 395-402. DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.76.3.395
Keyes, C.L.M. (2007). Promoting and protecting mental health as flourishing. American Psychologist, 62, 95-108. DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.2.95
Organizational Resilience
Vogus, T.J., & Sutcliffe, K.M. (2007). Organizational resilience: Toward a theory and research agenda. Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 3418-3422. DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4414160.
Vogus, T.J., & Sutcliffe, K.M. (2012). Organizational mindfulness and mindful organizing: a reconciliation and path forward. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 11, 722-735.
Positive Psychology
Kaczor, C. (2015). Aristotle, Aquinas, and Seligman on Happiness. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 34, 196-204.
Knoor, H.H., & Delle Fave, A. (Eds.). (2013). Well-being and Cultures: Perspectives from Positive Psychology. Dordrecht: Springer.
Lambert, L., Passmore, H., & Holder, M.D. (2015). Foundational frameworks of positive psychology: Mapping well-being orientations. Canadian Psychology, 56, 311-321.
Schueller, S.M. (2009). Promoting wellness: Integrating community and positive psychology. Journal of Community Psychology, 37, 922-937. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20334
Seligman, M.E.P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive psychology. American Psychologist, 55, 5-14. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.55.1.5
Psychological Well-being
Ryff, C.D. (1989). Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 1069-1081.
Ryff, C.D. (2013). Psychological well-being revisited: Advances in the science and practice of eduaimonia. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 83, 10-28. DOI: 10.1159/000353263
Ryff, C.D., & Singer, B.H. (2006). Best news yet on the six-factor model of well-being. Social Science Research, 35, 1103-1119. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.01.002
Resilience and Thriving
Carver, C.S. (1998). Resilience and thriving: Issues, models, and linkages. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 245-266.
Khanna, N., MacCormack, J., Kutsyuruba, B., McCart, S., & Freeman, J. (2014). Critical Factors for Youth Thriving. Retrieved from ymcagta.org/-/media/pdfs/news/thriving_youth/critical_factors_for_youth_thriving_report.pdf
Okello, W.K., & Perez II, D. (2018). “Don’t believe the hype”: Complicating the Thriving Quotient for Latino undergraduate men at selective institutions. About Campus, 22, 27-31. DOI: 10.1002/abc.21312
O’Leary, V.E. (1998). Strength in the face of adversity: Individual and social thriving. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 425-446.
O’Leary, V.E. & Ickovics, J.R. (1995). Resilience and thriving in response to challenge: an opportunity for a paradigm shift in women’s health. Women’s Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy, 1, 121-142.
Schreiner, L.A. (2013). Thriving in college. New Directions for Student Services, 143, 41-52. DOI: 10.1002/ss.20059
Schreiner, L. A., Kammer, R., Primrose, B., & Quick, D. (2011). Predictors of thriving in students of color: Differential pathways to college success. In annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Charlotte, NC.
Schreiner, L.A., Pothoven, S., Nelson, D., & McIntosh, E. (2009, November). The Thriving Quotient: Advancing the assessment of student success. In annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Self-determination theory
Ryan, R.M., & Deci, E.L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 68-78. DOI: 10.1037110003-066X.55.1.68
Subjective Well-being
Diener, E. (Ed.). (2009). The Science of Well-being: the Collected Works of Ed Diener. Social Indicators Research Series, 37. Dordrecht: Springer.
Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: the science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. American Psychologist, 55, 34-43. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.55.1.3
Diener, E., Suh, E.M., Lucas, R.E., & Smith, H.L. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302.
Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi, D., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2010). New well-being measures: Short scales to assess flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social Indicators Research, 97, 143-156. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9493-y
Dodge, R., Daly, A.P., Huyton, J., Sanders, L.D. (2012). The challenge of defining well-being. International Journal of Well-being, 2, 222-235. DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v2i3.4
Trust and Well-being
Helliwell, J.F., & Wang, S. (2011). Trust and wellbeing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 1, 42-78. DOI: doi:10.5502/ijw.v1i1.9
Policy, Practice, and Well-being
Adler, A., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2016). Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6, 1-35. DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v6i1.429
Diener, E., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2004). Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, 1-31.
Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (2012). World Happiness Report. Retrieved from http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2012/
Ickovics, J.R., & Park, C.L. (1998). Paradigm shift: Why a focus on health in important. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 237, 244.
McCrea, R., Walton, A., & Leonard, R. (2016). Developing a model of community wellbeing and resilience in response to change. Social Indicators Research, 129, 195-214. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1099-y