The Warwick Wellbeing, Culture, and Personality Research Group
The research group is committed to exploring the relationships between personality traits, cultural influences, and overall wellbeing. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative methodologies, we investigate various dimensions of wellbeing, including life satisfaction, resilience, and psychological flourishing. By examining how personality traits and different cultural contexts foster or hinder wellbeing, we aim to uncover strategies for promoting mental health and resilience across diverse populations and organisational settings.
Our group employs a range of methodologies, from large-scale surveys and longitudinal studies to qualitative studies and experimental designs. By incorporating insights from psychology, genetics, sociology, and other disciplines, we aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of how culture, personality, and well-being relate to one another.
Meet the Team
Professor Anu Realo (Research Group Leader)
Research interests:
Personality, subjective well-being, social capital, cross-cultural differences
Serkan Deveci (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Leadership behaviour, employee well-being, organisational-based self-esteem), workplace AI usage and AI perceptions
Supervisors: Anu Realo, Luke Hodson, Emmanouil Konstantinidis
Yuxuan Su (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Well-being, positive psychology, gratitude, mental health interventions
Supervisors: Luke Hodson and Anu Realo
Dr Luke Hodson (Assistant Professor, Research Group Co-leader)
Research interests:
Well-being, positive psychology, optimal functioning, character strengths, intervention development and application
Kehan Mei (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Personality, well-being, self-control, sleep, mental health, family environment
Supervisors: Anu Realo and Sakari Lemola
Arij Yehya (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Role of culture and gender in psychological outcomes such as personality traits, resilience, psychotic experiences
Supervisors: Anu Realo and Robin Goodwin
Dr Xiujun Li (Visiting Research Fellow)
Research interests:
Positive psychological traits, well-being, autism
Zilan Zou(PhD Student)
Research interests:
Hope, emotional bias regulation, executive function, cognitive-neural mechanisms of anxiety intervention
Supervisors：
Luke Hodson, Gemma Gray and Friederike Schlaghecken
James Moindrot (Master's student)
MSc in Psychological Research
Term 1 placement project
Supervisor: Anu Realo
Some Recent Publications:
Deveci, S., & Realo, A. (2024). Assessing employee wellbeing in multinational corporations using a multifaceted approach. Manuscript under review.
Mei, K., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., Ming, H., Jiang, Y., & Huang, S. (2024). Perceived social support buffers the associations of household chaos and physical and mental health in rural early adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 96,112-123.https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12260
Mõttus, R., Realo, A., Allik, J., Ausmees, L., Henry, S., McCrae, R. R., & Vainik, U. (2024). Most people’s life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multi-trait, multi-rater, multi-sample data. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126,676-693. https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2024-93961-003Link opens in a new window
Lenneis, A., Das-Friebel, A., Tang, N. K. Y., Sanborn, A. N., Lemola, S., Singmann, H., Wolke, D., von Mühlenen, A., & Realo, A. (2023). The influence of sleep on subjective well-being: An experience sampling study. Emotion, 24, 451-464. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001268Link opens in a new window
Li, X., Bai, X., Conway, C. M., Shi, W., & Wang, X. (2023). Statistical learning for non-social and socially-meaningful stimuli in individuals with high and low levels of autistic traits. Current Psychology, 42(17), 14700-14710. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1007/s12144-022-02703-0
Yehya, A., Khaled, S. M., Sommer, I. E. C. et al. (2023). The Arabic questionnaire for psychotic experiences in patients with psychotic disorders: A clinical validation. BMC Psychiatry, 23, 141. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04649-4
Hodson, L., MacCallum, F., Watson, D., & Blagrove, E. (2021). Dear diary: Evaluating a goal-oriented intervention linked with increased hope and cognitive flexibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110383