Community Well-being

SHINE is interested in how companies can positively impact the communities in which they operate. Some companies run volunteer efforts, some provide resources sorely needed, and others collaborate across sectors to promote well-being through new services or operations. For example, we have studied two anchor institutions, a financial institution and a whole health provider have partnered to incentivize place-based activity in order to promote a greater sense of belonging, increased financial security, and physical activity. Other topics of interest include how volunteerism affects individual and company flourishing and how employee well-being can affect the people they serve—such as how the well-being of teachers and health care providers can impact the well-being of students and patients.


PUBLICATIONS

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden, Piotr Bialowolski, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely. Psychological caring climate at work, mental health well-being, and work-related outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study and health insurance data. Social Science & Medicine (2023).

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Eileen McNeely, Ying Chen, Richard G. Cowden and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the Subsequent Experience of Well-Being. Sustainability (2022).

Ying Chen, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Eileen McNeely, & Tyler J. VanderWeele. Longitudinal associations between domains of flourishing. Scientific Reports (2022).

Matthew T. Lee, Eileen McNeely, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Karen A. Ryan, Kay D. Mooney, Richard G. Cowden, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Demographic Predictors of Complete Well-beingBMC Public Health (2022).

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski,  Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely. Prospective associations between strengths of moral character and health: longitudinal evidence from survey and insurance claims data. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2022).

J. Höltge, R.G. Cowden, Matthew T. Lee, A. O. Bechara, S. Joynt, S. Kamble, V.V Khalanskyi, L. Shtanko, N.M.T. Kurniati, S. Tymchenko, V.L. Voytenko, E. McNeely, and T.J. VanderWeele. A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network. The Journal of Positive Psychology (2022).

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely.  Prospective Associations Between Social Connectedness and Mental Health.  Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey and Health Insurance Claims Data. International Journal of Public Health (2022).

McNeely, Eileen. Business as a platform for human flourishing: now what do we do with that?  Emerald Publishing (2022).

Weziak‐Bialowolska, D. (2022). Commentary on “The protective effects of wellbeing and flourishing on long-term mental health risk”. SSM – Mental Health. 2, 135907 (2022).

Bialowolski, P., Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Lee, M. T., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T. J., & McNeely, E. The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data. Social Science & Medicine (2021).

Bialowolski, P., & Weziak-Bialowolska, D. (2021). Good credit, bad credit – the differential role of credit sources in life satisfaction. Journal of Consumer Affairs (2021).

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Eileen McNeely. Psychometric Properties of Flourishing Scales From a Comprehensive Well-Being Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology (2021).

Bialowolski P, Weziak-Bialowolska D, McNeely E. The role of financial fragility and financial control for well-being. Social Indicators Research (2021).

Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely. A socially responsible financial institution – The bumpy road to improving consumer well-being. Evaluation and Program Planning (2021).

Piotr Białowolski & Florian Chávez-Juárez. Household Financial Portfolios in an Emerging Economy⁠—The Case of Chile. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, DOI (2019).

Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Tyler J. Vanderweele. The impact of savings and credit on health and health behaviours: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. International Journal of Public Health (2019).

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely, Tyler J. VanderWeele. Human Flourishing in Cross Cultural Settings. Evidence from the US, China, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and MexicoFrontiers in Psychology (2019).