The development of the Global Flourishing Study questionnaire: Charting the evolution of a new 109-item inventory of human flourishing

• DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ugqj5_v1
• Publication Date: 2025-04-03T14:41:21Z
• Authors: Tim Lomas; Matt Bradshaw; Brendan Case; Richard Cowden; Steve Crabtree; Cynthia English; Alex Fogleman; Kathryn A. Johnson; Zacc Ritter; Byron R. Johnson; Tyler J. VanderWeele
• Keywords: Flourishing

Given the well-founded critiques of academia as Western-centric, there are increasing efforts to conduct research that is more cross-cultural and global. These dynamics apply all aspects life, including human flourishing, exemplified by new Global Flourishing Study (GFS), a longitudinal panel study investigating predictors components flourishing across over 200,000 participants from 22 geographically culturally diverse countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong [S.A.R China, with mainland China also included 2024 onwards], Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, UK, US). The not only comprehensive in its global reach but conceptual coverage involving 109 distinct questions (comprising one-off intake survey 43 items an annual 71 items, five shared both). This paper elucidates questionnaire development process, giving transparent open accounting multi-phase construction. By describing this process detail, article nature GFS serves useful resource literature broadly (e.g., for scholars undertaking similar endeavours).