A new podcast, Is working from home unhealthy? from Better Off at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explores the upsides and downsides of working from home.  SHINE’s Executive Director Eileen McNeely is interviewed by Better…

A new paper in PLOS ONE explores how working from home (WFH) impacts work engagement, performance and job satisfaction.  “Working from home and subsequent work outcomes: Pre-pandemic evidence,” authored by Ying Chen, Dorota…

A new paper in Social Science & Medicine explores caring climate at work and its impact on work outcomes and employee well-being. “Psychological caring climate at work, mental health well-being, and work-related outcomes: Evidence from a…

A new paper in Sustainability explores whether the importance assigned to well-being domains may be associated with actual self-reported well-being in these same domains.  “Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the…

A new paper in Scientific Reports explores suffering and its consequences for health and well-being.  Although suffering is a ubiquitous part of the human experience, the extant empirical literature on suffering is characterized by a…

A new paper in Frontiers in Public Health examines the radiation exposures which accumulate over time for flight crews. Flight attendants (FA) and pilots are consistently exposed to a complex variety of physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial…

A new paper in BMC Public Health examines demographic differences in flourishing, defined as “complete well-being” and consisting of six domains: emotional health, physical health, purpose, character strengths, social connectedness, and financial…

A new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology explores the distinctions between depression and suffering.  Authors Richard G. Cowden, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele used a cross-sectional sample of flight…

Dorota Węziak-Białowolska of SHINE and Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program was interviewed by the Harvard Gazette about our recent study exploring the role of character in physical and mental health.  The research team – Weziak-Bialowolska,…

The Harvard Gazette did a feature story focused on our recent study exploring the role of character in physical and mental health. The research team – Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and…