Topic
Wellbeing research, explained
7 open-access wellbeing studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Fatigue drives work and social disability in long COVID clinics
Among 3,754 UK post-COVID clinic patients, 53% had moderately severe functional impairment (WSAS ≥20); fatigue (FACIT-F) was the strongest predictor of high WSAS, ahead of depression and brain fog.
- Most PCS patients still ill in year two
In a German nested case-control follow-up, 67.6% of PCS cases remained symptomatic at phase 2 while 78.5% of recovered controls stayed well; symptoms stayed nonspecific without lab evidence of viral persistence.
- Who gets happier from humor-based wellbeing exercises?
More extraverted women gained more from writing down three funny things each day, but people's baseline sense of humor did not change how much any humor exercise helped.
- How do stigma and acceptance shape life after a stoma?
Among 259 Chinese stoma patients, stigma was severe and psychosocial adaptation poor; disability acceptance improved adaptation and statistically mediated stigma’s harmful association.
- Are people happier when their personality matches their region?
Swiss adults whose pattern of Big Five traits resembled their canton's typical profile reported higher wellbeing, but other ways of measuring 'fit' gave null or even opposite results.
- Does strengths-focused parenting predict teens' later wellbeing?
Teens who felt their parents recognised their strengths were happier at the same moment, but that parenting did not predict how their wellbeing changed months later.
- Does practising Tai Chi make older adults happier, and why?
Older adults who did eight weeks of Tai Chi reported more confidence in managing their emotions and higher wellbeing than a control group, and part of the wellbeing gain ran through that emotional confidence.