Mahala Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahala Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahala |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5776-9967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agentic Recombination of Health Behaviors into Adult Health Lifestyles
We advance health lifestyle research by developing the concept of agentic recombination to capture how individuals uniquely combine health behaviors to form adult health lifestyles. Using data from the 2005 to 2019 Transition to Adulthood Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine intergenerational transmission of health behaviors, directionality of health behaviors, and health lifestyles. We find significant parent/adult child …
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience
Religious commitment has long been associated with health and happiness in the United States. However, despite a period of drastic decline in religious affiliation among Americans, much less is known about how nonreligious commitments promote wellbeing. We use novel measures that capture variation among the nonreligious to assess whether aspects of nonreligious experience might replicate religion's health-promoting features. We analyse how wellbe…
Getting Moving" and Being "Active Fit
There's Research on That
This article draws a decade of experience editing and publishing TheSocietyPages.org , and four more years editing Contexts magazine. Both projects work to bring sociological research and insight to broader public audiences, visibility, and impact. Here we build upon Herbert Gans' original call for public sociology and his emphasis on the translation and dissemination of sociological research, insight, and context on social issues and problems fo…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
There's Research on That
This article draws a decade of experience editing and publishing TheSocietyPages.org , and four more years editing Contexts magazine. Both projects work to bring sociological research and insight to broader public audiences, visibility, and impact. Here we build upon Herbert Gans' original call for public sociology and his emphasis on the translation and dissemination of sociological research, insight, and context on social issues and problems fo…
There's Research on That
This article draws a decade of experience editing and publishing TheSocietyPages.org , and four more years editing Contexts magazine. Both projects work to bring sociological research and insight to broader public audiences, visibility, and impact. Here we build upon Herbert Gans' original call for public sociology and his emphasis on the translation and dissemination of sociological research, insight, and context on social issues and problems fo…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
Getting Moving" and Being "Active Fit
Agentic Recombination of Health Behaviors into Adult Health Lifestyles
We advance health lifestyle research by developing the concept of agentic recombination to capture how individuals uniquely combine health behaviors to form adult health lifestyles. Using data from the 2005 to 2019 Transition to Adulthood Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine intergenerational transmission of health behaviors, directionality of health behaviors, and health lifestyles. We find significant parent/adult child …
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience
Religious commitment has long been associated with health and happiness in the United States. However, despite a period of drastic decline in religious affiliation among Americans, much less is known about how nonreligious commitments promote wellbeing. We use novel measures that capture variation among the nonreligious to assess whether aspects of nonreligious experience might replicate religion's health-promoting features. We analyse how wellbe…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Happiness (2 works) · Life satisfaction (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works)