Resources

Measures

Well-Lit 6

Hou, H., Chin, T. C., Slemp, G. R., & Oades, L. G. (2021). Wellbeing literacy: Conceptualization, measurement, and preliminary empirical findings from students, parents and school staff. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(4), 1485. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041485

Publications

2023 Publications

• Yaden, D. B., Giorgi, S., Kern, M. L., Adler, A., Ungar, L. H., Seligman, M. E. P., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2023). Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(2), 272–280. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000408

2022 Publications

• De Ruyter, D., Oades, L.G., Waghid, Y., Ehrenfeld, J., Gilead, T. and Singh, N.C. (2022) in Duraiappah, A.K., van Atteveldt, N.M., Borst, G., Bugden, S., Ergas, O., Gilead, T., Gupta, L., Mercier, J., Pugh, K., Singh, N.C. and Vickers, E.A. (eds.) Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence based Assessment. New Delhi: UNESCO MGIEP.DOI: https://doi.org/10.56383/XBXZ7711
• Oades, L.G., Hou, H., Francis, J.J., Baker, L., and Huang, L. (2022). Well-being Literacy: Language Use as a Way to Contextualize the Process of Positive Education. (pp.91-103). In K-A. Allen, M. J. Furlong, D. A. Vella-Brodrick & S. M. Suldo, (Eds.). The handbook of positive psychology in schools: Supporting Process and Practice (3rd ed.). Taylor and Francis. ISBN: 978-03-67-85586-4

2021 Publications

• Baker, L.M., Oades, L.G., and Raban, B. (2021). Wellbeing literacy and early childhood education.  NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 23(2), pp. 4 – 19. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.404572037365614
• Giorgi, S., Nguyen, K. Le, Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Yaden, D. B., Kosinski, M., … Park, G. (2021). Regional personality assessment through social media language. Journal of Personality, 00, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12674
• Hou, H., Chin, T.-C., Slemp, G. R., & Oades, L. G. (2021). Wellbeing Literacy: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Preliminary Empirical Findings from Students, Parents and School Staff. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041485
• Oades, J., Baker, L., Francis, J., & Taylor, J. (2020). Wellbeing Literacy and Positive Education. In M. Kern & M. Wehmeyer (Eds,). The Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64537-3_13
• Oades, L., Hou, H., Francis, J., Baker, L., Huang, L. Wellbeing Literacy: Language Use a Way to Contextualise the Process of Positive Education. In K-A. Allen, M. Furlong, S. Suldo, D. Vella-Brodrick (Eds,). Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools (Third Edition): In Support of Positive Educational Processes. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
• Oades, J., Taylor, J., Francis, J., & Baker, L. Wellbeing Literacy as an Emancipatory and Transformative Capability. In M. White & F. McCallum (Eds,). Wellbeing and Resilience Education: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Education Systems. Routledge.

Past Publications

• Carpenter, J., Preotiuc-Pietro, D., Flekova, L., Giorgi, S., Hagan, C., Kern, M. L., Buffone, A. E. K., Ungar, L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2017). Real Men Don’t Say “Cute”: Using Automatic Language Analysis to Isolate Inaccurate Aspects of Stereotypes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(3), 310–322. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616671998
• Francis, J., Chin, T. C., & Vella-Brodrick, D. (2020). Examining Emotional Literacy Development Using a Brief On-Line Positive Psychology Intervention with Primary School Children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(20), 7612. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/20/7612
• Huang, L., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2020). Strengthening University Student Wellbeing: Language and Perceptions of Chinese International Students. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17(15), 5538. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155538
• Jaidka, K., Giorgi, S., Schwartz, H., Kern, M., Ungar, L., & Eichstaedt, J. (2020). Estimating geographic subjective well-being from Twitter: A comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 201906364. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906364117
• Johnston, A., Oades, L., & Slemp, G. (2017). Toward Building Sustainable Wellbeing Literacy in Higher Education: Strategies and Indicators of Success. Hogrefe Publishing. http://evelynemeens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Wellbeing-in-educational-systems.pdf#page=48
• Kern, M. L., McCarthy, P. X., Chakrabarty, D., & Rizoiu, M.-A. (2019). Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(52), 26459 LP – 26464. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917942116
• Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Yaden, D. B., Schwartz, H. A., Giorgi, S., Park, G., Hagan, C. A., Tobolsky, V., Smith, L. K., Buffone, A., Iwry, J., Seligman, M. E. P., & Ungar, L. H. (in press). Closed- and open-vocabulary approaches to text analysis: A review, quantitative comparison, and recommendations. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000349
• Oades, L. G. (2017). Wellbeing Literacy: The Missing Link in Positive Education BT - Future Directions in Well-Being: Education, Organizations and Policy. In M. A. White, G. R. Slemp, & A. S. Murray (Eds.) (pp. 169–173). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56889-8_29
• Oades, L. (2020). Towards a wellbeing literate society. In Eds Andrews, K., Papps, F., Mancini, L., Nicholson-Perry, K., Senior, G., & Brymer, E., Innovations in a Changing World (pp14-18). Australian College of Applied Psychology, Australia.
• Oades, L. G., & Johnston, A. L. (2017). Wellbeing literacy: The necessary ingredient in positive education. Psychology and Behavioural Science International Journal, 3(5), 1-3.
• Oades, L. G., Ozturk, C., Hou, H., & Slemp, G. R. (2020). Wellbeing literacy: A language-use capability relevant to wellbeing outcomes of positive psychology intervention. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(5), 696–700. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1789711
• Pongiglione, B., Margaret, L. K., D Carpentieri, J., Schwartz, H. A., Neelaabh, G., & Alissa, G. (2020). Do children’s expectations about future physical activity predict their physical activity in adulthood? http://hdl.handle.net/11565/4031499
• De Ruyter, D., Oades, L., & Waghid, Y., 2020 Meaning(s) of Human Flourishing and Education. Research brief by the International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment. An initiative by UNESCO MGIEP. https://d1c337161ud3pr.cloudfront.net/files%2Fa8cd2349-650b-4312-8950-750fe87497e0_Flourishing%20and%20Education.pdf