An exploratory cross-national analysis of the childhood predictors of inner peace in the Global Flourishing Study.

ABSTRACT: Great efforts have been expended studying how people's childhood affects their life in adulthood. Although attention has mostly focused on 'negative' outcomes, such as mental illness, paradigms like positive psychology have encouraged interest in desirable phenomena too. Yet amidst this 'positive turn' some desiderata have still received scant engagement, including inner peace. This lacuna perhaps reflects the Western-centric nature of academia, with low arousal positive emotions regarded as being relatively undervalued in the West. But aligning with broader efforts to redress this Western-centricity is an emergent literature on this topic. This report adds to this by presenting cross-sectional wave 1 data from the most ambitious longitudinal study to date of inner peace, namely as an item

SUBMITTER: Lomas T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12044011 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature