R Noah Padgett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1734982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Noah Padgett |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Padgett |
| SIGNATURE | PADGETT R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9114-3896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study
When evaluating how countries are faring, there is a widespread tendency to rely on single metrics or indices, whether objective (e.g., GDP) or subjective (e.g., life evaluation). However, flourishing is multidimensional, and societies invariably do better in some ways and less so in others (even if some places get more things “right” than others), so any comprehensive assessment must be multifaceted. We demonstrate this by evaluating 22 countrie…
Harmonic Principles of Wellbeing
Mapping Religious and Spiritual Comfort Worldwide
Prior research highlights the role of religious and spiritual (R/S) comfort in coping with adversity, particularly in Global North contexts. This study examined R/S comfort across 22 countries and various demographics, using representative data from 202,898 individuals participating in the Global Flourishing Study. For each demographic category country-specific proportions of R/S comfort were estimated by country and then pooled using random-effe…
Religious Reading across Borders and Demographics
Previous research on religiosity mainly focuses on religious service attendance and prayer. Less is known about reading and listening to sacred texts (RLST) across cultures. This study examines RLST habits across 22 countries and key demographic groups, using data from 202,898 individuals. The country-specific results are pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The prevalence of RLST varied substantially, from 4% in Japan to 70% in Tanzania,…
Towards a Data-Driven and Globally-Informed Framework of Flourishing
Demographic Variation in Inner Peace Across 22 Countries
Although peace is invariably regarded as a universal good, most research focuses on ‘outer’ forms (e.g., societal relations), with little attention to ‘inner’ peace (IP, i.e., tranquil states of mind). This may reflect the Western-centrism of academia, with low arousal positive states like IP being relatively undervalued in the West. But alongside broader efforts to redress such Western-centricity, an emergent literature is now exploring this con…
Strangers, Friends, and Everything Between
While prior research has demonstrated that social relationships meaningfully shape health and well-being, less is known about how subjective evaluations of the quality of one’s relationships differ across national contexts and across sociodemographic groups within different countries. Using data from the Global Flourishing Study, a large international sample of 202,898 adults from 22 countries, we examined the average level and distributions of s…
Delayed gratification across 22 Countries
Analysis of demographic variation and childhood correlates of financial well-being across 22 countries
Using nationally representative data from 202,898 participants in the Global Flourishing Study, this work examines factors associated with financial well-being across 22 countries. We investigate how demographic factors—including age, gender, marital status, employment status, education, religious service attendance and immigration status—are correlated with financial well-being (as assessed through four dimensions). Additionally, we analyse asso…
Demographic Variation in Balance in Life Across 22 Countries
The importance of balance has been selectively acknowledged in modern scholarship through notions such as work-life balance. However, the broader notion of balance in life has remained underappreciated. This may reflect the Western-centric nature of academia, with balance having received less attention in the West compared to other cultures. But aligning with efforts to make scholarship more globally inclusive, an emergent literature is exploring…
Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood
A robust body of empirical evidence suggests that forgiveness of others is positively related to individual wellbeing. However, less empirical work has been done to identify the factors that may help children not only forgive better during childhood but also develop into adults who practice forgiveness more consistently. To support a population health agenda aimed at the promotion of forgiveness, further research is needed to identify potential d…
From hardship to resilience
This study examines the prospective associations between subjective childhood financial conditions and adult well-being outcomes across 22 countries, with a specific focus on differences between WEIRD and less WEIRD contexts. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data from 202,898 individuals, we analyzed retrospective reports of childhood financial conditions - categorized as "lived comfortably," "got by," "found it difficult," and "fo…
Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling
Person-centered methodologies generally refer to those that take unobserved heterogeneity of populations into account. The use of person-centered methodologies has proliferated, which is likely due to a number of factors, such as methodological advances coupled with increased personal computing power and ease of software use. Using latent class analysis and its extension for longitudinal data, [latent transition analysis (LTA)], multiple underlyi…
Multilevel CFA with Ordered Categorical Data
Within a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework, we investigated the ability of commonly used fit indices to discriminate between correctly specified models and misspecified models. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses were used to evaluate the performance of fit indices. Combining ROC analyses with checks of the convergence rates across Monte Carlo replications and ANOVA for investigating the variation in fit scores acros…
Exploration of Diet Quality by Obesity Severity in Association with Gestational Weight Gain and Distal Gut Microbiota in Pregnant African American Women
Culturally Relevant Resilience
Measuring key components of resilience is vital for understanding cross-cultural dynamics among youth and the environment. The Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) was developed as a cross-cultural measure of resilience and has been used globally. To examine the cross-cultural utility of the CYRM-28, we conducted a systematic review of the literature reporting on the psychometric properties of the measure. Using data representing six coun…
Culturally Relevant Resilience
Measuring key components of resilience is vital for understanding cross-cultural dynamics among youth and the environment. The Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) was developed as a cross-cultural measure of resilience and has been used globally. To examine the cross-cultural utility of the CYRM-28, we conducted a systematic review of the literature reporting on the psychometric properties of the measure. Using data representing six coun…
Analysis of demographic variation and childhood correlates of financial well-being across 22 countries
Using nationally representative data from 202,898 participants in the Global Flourishing Study, this work examines factors associated with financial well-being across 22 countries. We investigate how demographic factors—including age, gender, marital status, employment status, education, religious service attendance and immigration status—are correlated with financial well-being (as assessed through four dimensions). Additionally, we analyse asso…
Culturally Relevant Resilience
Measuring key components of resilience is vital for understanding cross-cultural dynamics among youth and the environment. The Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) was developed as a cross-cultural measure of resilience and has been used globally. To examine the cross-cultural utility of the CYRM-28, we conducted a systematic review of the literature reporting on the psychometric properties of the measure. Using data representing six coun…
Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling
Person-centered methodologies generally refer to those that take unobserved heterogeneity of populations into account. The use of person-centered methodologies has proliferated, which is likely due to a number of factors, such as methodological advances coupled with increased personal computing power and ease of software use. Using latent class analysis and its extension for longitudinal data, [latent transition analysis (LTA)], multiple underlyi…
Multilevel CFA with Ordered Categorical Data
Within a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework, we investigated the ability of commonly used fit indices to discriminate between correctly specified models and misspecified models. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses were used to evaluate the performance of fit indices. Combining ROC analyses with checks of the convergence rates across Monte Carlo replications and ANOVA for investigating the variation in fit scores acros…
Exploration of Diet Quality by Obesity Severity in Association with Gestational Weight Gain and Distal Gut Microbiota in Pregnant African American Women
Demographic Variation in Inner Peace Across 22 Countries
Although peace is invariably regarded as a universal good, most research focuses on ‘outer’ forms (e.g., societal relations), with little attention to ‘inner’ peace (IP, i.e., tranquil states of mind). This may reflect the Western-centrism of academia, with low arousal positive states like IP being relatively undervalued in the West. But alongside broader efforts to redress such Western-centricity, an emergent literature is now exploring this con…
Strangers, Friends, and Everything Between
While prior research has demonstrated that social relationships meaningfully shape health and well-being, less is known about how subjective evaluations of the quality of one’s relationships differ across national contexts and across sociodemographic groups within different countries. Using data from the Global Flourishing Study, a large international sample of 202,898 adults from 22 countries, we examined the average level and distributions of s…
Delayed gratification across 22 Countries
Analysis of demographic variation and childhood correlates of financial well-being across 22 countries
Using nationally representative data from 202,898 participants in the Global Flourishing Study, this work examines factors associated with financial well-being across 22 countries. We investigate how demographic factors—including age, gender, marital status, employment status, education, religious service attendance and immigration status—are correlated with financial well-being (as assessed through four dimensions). Additionally, we analyse asso…
Demographic Variation in Balance in Life Across 22 Countries
The importance of balance has been selectively acknowledged in modern scholarship through notions such as work-life balance. However, the broader notion of balance in life has remained underappreciated. This may reflect the Western-centric nature of academia, with balance having received less attention in the West compared to other cultures. But aligning with efforts to make scholarship more globally inclusive, an emergent literature is exploring…
Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood
A robust body of empirical evidence suggests that forgiveness of others is positively related to individual wellbeing. However, less empirical work has been done to identify the factors that may help children not only forgive better during childhood but also develop into adults who practice forgiveness more consistently. To support a population health agenda aimed at the promotion of forgiveness, further research is needed to identify potential d…
From hardship to resilience
This study examines the prospective associations between subjective childhood financial conditions and adult well-being outcomes across 22 countries, with a specific focus on differences between WEIRD and less WEIRD contexts. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data from 202,898 individuals, we analyzed retrospective reports of childhood financial conditions - categorized as "lived comfortably," "got by," "found it difficult," and "fo…
A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study
When evaluating how countries are faring, there is a widespread tendency to rely on single metrics or indices, whether objective (e.g., GDP) or subjective (e.g., life evaluation). However, flourishing is multidimensional, and societies invariably do better in some ways and less so in others (even if some places get more things “right” than others), so any comprehensive assessment must be multifaceted. We demonstrate this by evaluating 22 countrie…
Harmonic Principles of Wellbeing
Mapping Religious and Spiritual Comfort Worldwide
Prior research highlights the role of religious and spiritual (R/S) comfort in coping with adversity, particularly in Global North contexts. This study examined R/S comfort across 22 countries and various demographics, using representative data from 202,898 individuals participating in the Global Flourishing Study. For each demographic category country-specific proportions of R/S comfort were estimated by country and then pooled using random-effe…
Religious Reading across Borders and Demographics
Previous research on religiosity mainly focuses on religious service attendance and prayer. Less is known about reading and listening to sacred texts (RLST) across cultures. This study examines RLST habits across 22 countries and key demographic groups, using data from 202,898 individuals. The country-specific results are pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The prevalence of RLST varied substantially, from 4% in Japan to 70% in Tanzania,…
Towards a Data-Driven and Globally-Informed Framework of Flourishing
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (8 works) · Flourishing (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Quality of Life Research (4 works) · Attendance (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)