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Record W4409968466 · doi:10.1038/s44220-025-00423-5

The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing

2025· article· en· W4409968466 on OpenAlexaff
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Byron R. Johnson, Piotr Białowolski, Rebecca Bonhag, Matt Bradshaw, Thomas Breedlove, Brendan Case, Ying Chen, Zhuo Job Chen, Victor Counted, Richard G. Cowden, Pedro Antonio de la Rosa, Chris Felton, Alex Fogleman, Cristina B. Gibson, Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, Craig Gundersen, Sung Joon Jang, Kathryn A. Johnson, Blake Victor Kent, Eric S. Kim, Young-Il Kim, Hayami K. Koga, Matthew T. Lee, Noemi Le Pertel, Tim Lomas, Katelyn Long, Lucía Macchia, Christos Makridis, Lesley Markham, Julia S. Nakamura, Nicholas Norman-Krause, Chukwuemeka N. Okafor, Sakurako S. Okuzono, Suzanne T Ouyang, R. Noah Padgett, Jason Paltzer, James L. Ritchie‐Dunham, Zacc Ritter, Rajesh Srinivasan, John Ssozi, Dorota Węziak‐Białowolska, Renae Wilkinson, Robert D. Woodberry, Jennifer Susan Wortham, George Yancey

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Mental Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersTempleton World Charity FoundationTempleton Religion TrustFetzer InstituteJohn Templeton Foundation
KeywordsFlourishingPromotion (chess)Distribution (mathematics)PsychologyData collectionWell-beingSocial sciencePolitical scienceSocial psychologySociologyPoliticsLawMathematics

Abstract

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The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling and intended annual survey data collection for 5 years to assess numerous aspects of flourishing and its possible determinants. The study is intended to expand our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of flourishing around the world. Relations between a composite flourishing index and numerous demographic characteristics are reported. Participants were also surveyed about their childhood experiences, which were analyzed to determine their associations with subsequent adult flourishing. Analyses are presented both across and within countries, and discussion is given as to how the demographic and childhood relationships vary by country and which patterns appear to be universal versus culturally specific. Brief comment is also given on the results of a whole series of papers in the Global Flourishing Study Special Collection, employing similar analyses, but with more-specific aspects of well-being. The Global Flourishing Study expands our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of well-being and provides foundational knowledge for the promotion of societal flourishing.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.432
Teacher spread0.413 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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