The Warwick Wellbeing, Culture, and Personality Research Group
The research group is committed to exploring the complex 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 integrating insights from psychology, genetics, sociology, and other disciplines, we strive to generate comprehensive understandings of the complex interplay between culture, personality, and wellbeing.
Meet the Team
Professor Anu Realo (Team Lead)
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
Yuxuan Su (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Well-being, positive psychology, gratitude, mental health interventions
Dr Luke Hodson (Assistant Professor)
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
Arij Yehya (PhD Student)
Research interests:
Role of culture and gender in psychological outcomes such as personality traits, resilience, psychotic experiences
Dr Xiujun Li (Visiting Research Fellow)
Research interests:
Positive psychological traits, well-being, autism
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Some Recent Publications:
Deveci, S., & Realo, A. (2024). Assessing employee wellbeing in multinational corporations using a multifaceted approach. Manuscript under review.
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
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
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
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