{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100670"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100670","attributes":{"code":"FT250100670","administering-organisation":"The University of Western Australia","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Western Australia","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-02-16","anticipated-end-date":"2030-02-15","grant-summary":"Understanding Wellbeing in Daily Life: Key Predictors and Causal Mechanisms. Experiences of wellbeing - including positive emotions (hedonic wellbeing) and purpose/meaning (eudaimonic wellbeing) - are key to thriving communities and healthy, productive individuals. However, little is known about the underlying causal factors contributing to daily life changes in states of hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. This project will build a novel, comprehensive model that explains wellbeing fluctuations in daily life in the general population. Subjective, behavioral, and physiological measures are included, with big data methods to identify important predictors and test for causal associations with wellbeing. Findings will enhance our understanding of the mechanisms contributing to variation in wellbeing in daily life.","funding-current":1314708.00,"funding-at-announcement":1286884,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Kristin","familyName":"Gainey","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-2245-6880 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Kristin","familyName":"Gainey","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-2245-6880 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Western Australia","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"WA"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Western Australia","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"WA"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"520108","name":"Testing, Assessment and Psychometrics","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"520403","name":"Learning, Motivation and Emotion","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"5205","name":"Social and Personality Psychology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"520503","name":"Personality and Individual Differences","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"200407","name":"Health Status (Incl. Wellbeing)","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280121","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Psychology","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"The majority (>60%) of Australians report suboptimal levels of wellbeing, with large costs to individuals and society. Poor wellbeing is linked to lower work productivity, more physical health problems, reduced coping with stress, increased mortality, impaired daily functioning, and a weaker national economy, among others. While some determinants of wellbeing are systemic in nature, others can be changed at the individual level, even for those in difficult circumstances. However, research currently neglects key features of wellbeing, focusing predominantly on transient positive emotions rather than more sustainable feelings of meaning and purpose. Furthermore, little is known about what causes and maintains good wellbeing as it is experienced in real time in daily life. This project seeks to understand the psychological, physiological, and behavioural contributors to different types of wellbeing in daily life, using big data methods to build a comprehensive model that illuminates causal relationships. This model will have implications for public health policy, and will inform efforts to increase wellbeing in the general population that lead to healthy and thriving communities. It will also yield a validated measure for Australian researchers to use to index states of wellbeing. To facilitate the application of our findings to Australian communities, we will conduct a workshop disseminating our results to national stakeholders, as well as writing news articles for the public."}}}