Country: Australia

Study Design: Clinical trial and observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:

• Children / adolescents

• Early adulthood or midlife

• Aging adults

Number of participants at baseline: 17,000

Year of initial enrollment: 2001

Number of data collection waves: 20, data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being:

• Positive psychological well-being (overall / multidimensional)

• Flourishing (multidimensional)

• Positive affect

• Purpose / meaning in life / ikigai

• Life satisfaction

• Subjective happiness

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

Access information: This dataset is available to all researchers. Researchers must submit an application to access this data. There are no fees required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Siahpush M, Spittal M & Singh, G. (2008). Happiness and life satisfaction prospectively predict self-rated health, physical health, and the presence of limiting, long-term health conditions. American Journal of Health Promotion, 23(1), 18-26.