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New Paper on How Character Strengths Can Help Your Health and Well-Being

In a recent paper titled Character Strengths Involving an Orientation to Promote Good Can Help Your Health and Well-Being. Evidence From two Longitudinal Studies, Harvard researchers, Dorota Weziak-Białowolska, Piotr Białowolski of SHINE, and Tyler J. VanderWeele of The Human Flourishing Program, examine the impact of an orientation to promote good on flourishing outcomes. Not much is known about the benefits of health and well-being of an orientation to promote good,…

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New Paper on the Psychological Climate for Caring and Work Outcomes

In the latest paper titled Psychological Climate for Caring and Work Outcomes: A Virtuous Cycle, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, and Eileen McNeely of SHINE, and Carlued Leon and Tamar Koosed of Manaus, LCC, examine the relationship between climate for caring and work outcomes (job satisfaction, work engagement, and work quality). The research team found that caring climate contributes to improved engagement, work quality and productivity. They also found that in…

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New Paper Debating a Brief Assessment of Well-being vs Nothing at All

A new paper called “Brief Well-being Assessments, or nothing at all?” in the journal Preventive Medicine, debates the advantages and disadvantages of restricting items in a well-being assessment. In a recent paper on recommendations for the measurement of well-being put forward a number of preliminary proposals for different settings (VanderWeele et al., 2020a).  The recommendations in the paper varied depending on the context and purposes of the well-being assessment and took account…

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How CVS-Aetna and SHINE are Building a Healthier Workforce

Join SHINE Director, Eileen McNeely, and Vice President of Well-being at CVS Health, Kay Mooney, at the HeroForum19: Thriving Organizations conference in Portland, Oregon September 10-12, 2019.  Here’s a description of the session titled How CVS-Aetna and Harvard Faculty are Building a Healthier Workforce: We are facing unprecedented levels of obesity, chronic disease and stress due to a massive biological-cultural mismatch that we have collectively created in the U.S. and globally. Employers are feeling…

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New Paper on Human Flourishing in Cross-Cultural Settings

A new paper published by SHINE researchers investigates human flourishing in five culturally distinct populations. In this study we present two measures of human flourishing with psychometric support for their application to culturally distinct populations. Comparisons were made between states of human flourishing in Cambodia, China, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and United States. Although both measures have been shown to have satisfactory psychometic properties in the working adults population in the US…

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New paper on the Flourish Index & Secure Flourish Index as validation in the workplace

A new paper examines psychometric properties of the Flourish Index (FI) and Secure Flourish Index (SFI) in the workplace setting.  Written by Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska and Eileen McNeely of SHINE and Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, this paper specifically explores the psychometric properties of the FI and SFI in the working population of 5565 office and manufacturing employees of two US Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. This study…

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New Paper on Reimagining Health & Flourishing in JAMA

A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) authored by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Human Flourishing Program – Harvard), PhD, Eileen McNeely, PhD (SHINE – Harvard) ; Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH (Culture of Health – Harvard) explores how even more holistic measures of “well-being” from medicine, psychology, economics, sociology, and government, while come closer to capturing an individual’s complete well-being, still often fall short. The authors propose that in contrast to…

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Announcing SHINE’s Executive Leadership Well-being Survey

SHINE’s research focuses on the health and well-being of the workplace.  While our research up to date has been mostly around the workforce – from office employees to  factory workers and the supply chain – we are adding a new cohort, CEOs and senior management. As noted by Dr. Eileen McNeely, while Harvard and others have conducted significant research on workplace well-being, the focus has been on employee well-being and little…

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