Country: United States

Study Design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:​ Children / adolescents at enrollment

Number of participants at baseline: 16,882 (later expanded with 10,923 additional participants)

Year of initial enrollment: 1996

Number of data collection waves: 18; data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being:

• Optimism

• Positive Affect

• Purpose / Meaning in Life / Ikigai

• Life Satisfaction

• Positive Parenting Practices

Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times of well-being was assessed: High

Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): High

Measures of physical health: ​

• Self-rated / questionnaire-based health

• Self-report medical history or medication use

Access information:

This dataset is available to all researchers.

Researchers are required to submit an application to access this data. Fees are required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Chen Y, Kim E, Koh H, Frazier A & VanderWeele T. (2019). Sense of mission and subsequent health and well-being among young adults: an outcome-wide analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(4), 664-673.