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Objective: This study investigates long-term associations between sibling love in adolescence and health and well-being in adulthood., Background: Previous scholarship indicates that better sibling relationships have the potential to promote well-being during adolescence, yet little is known about whether greater love within sibling relationships leads to improved outcomes across life domains in adulthood., Method: The study uses data from Add Health, a large national sample of U.S. adolescents and leverages the main study sample (N = 5,804) and sibling pairs subsample (N = 1,244) to examine longitudinal associations, using a series of regression models adjusting for a wide range of covariates, of one-year increases in love between siblings (love for siblings and love from siblings) with 32 indicators of physical health, health behavior, mental health, psychological well-being, social factors, and civic/prosocial behavior approximately 20 years later., Results: Results indicated that greater love for siblings was associated with select outcomes in adulthood, specifically: better sleep health (reduced risk of sleep apnea and sleep disturbance) and psychological well-being (higher optimism) and civic behavior (higher likelihood of voting) in adulthood, and greater love from siblings was associated with reduced risk of anxiety and depression. Overall, greater sibling love (assessed in both directions) was not associated with the majority of outcomes assessed in adulthood., Conclusion: These findings suggest that greater sibling love during adolescence is related to better outcomes for some important indicators of health and well-being. However, it did not show strong relationships across outcomes from domains of health and well-being. There is a need to better understand whether the associations between sibling love and long-term health are causal, and whether relevant interventions are feasible and effective., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Tyler J. VanderWeele reports receiving licensing fees from, and partial ownership of, Flourishing Metrics., (Copyright © 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Background: A sense of hopelessness is rising at alarming levels among adolescents in the United States. There is urgent need to understand the potential implications of being hopeful on adolescents' future health and wellbeing., Methods: This study utilized data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 11,038, mean age at baseline = 15 years) to prospectively examine the relationship between baseline hope and a wide range of outcomes 12 years later. Thirty-eight outcomes were examined in the domains of physical health, health behavior, mental health, psychological well-being, social factors, and civic and prosocial behavior. Regression models were used to regress each outcome on baseline hope separately. Models controlled for a wide range of factors as well as prior values of the exposure (hope) and outcomes., Results: Having hope for the future in adolescence was associated with improvements in 11 subsequent outcomes after Bonferonni correction, including higher cognition and self-rated health, less physical inactivity, fewer depressive symptoms, lower perceived stress, and improvement on a number of psychological and social factors including greater happiness, more satisfaction with parenting, and increased voting and volunteering in adulthood. There were also a number of associations that were close to the null, which are equally important to explore and understand., Implications: The results of the study may have important implications for hope-based efforts and programs aimed at improving the lives of young people and promoting their current and future well-being., (Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)

Objective: Negative life events have the potential to undermine an individual's ability to function and thrive, but less is known about the implications of changes in subjective appraisals of those events for long-term well-being. This research examines how exposure to negative life events and subsequent changes in the perceived impact of those events are related to longer-term well-being in adulthood., Method: Drawing on three waves of data from the Midlife in the United States study (M1: 1995-1996, M2: 2004-2006, M3: 2013-2014), we applied the analytic template for outcome-wide longitudinal designs to investigate associations of (a) negative life event exposure between M1 and M2 and (b) change in the perceived impact of negative life event exposure assessed at M2 with 25 outcomes across several domains of well-being assessed approximately 9 years later at M3: psychological distress, psychological well-being, social well-being, prosociality, physical health, and health behavior., Results: Whereas negative life event exposure was associated with worse subsequent well-being on selected outcomes (5/25 in total) in some domains, positive change in the perceived impact of negative life event exposure was associated with better well-being on one or more outcomes in most domains (11/25 in total). Effect sizes in both sets of analyses were generally small, with more consistent associations found for psychological and social outcomes., Conclusion: Subjective appraisals of negative life events (particularly positive changes in those appraisals over time) may be more closely related to individual well-being in the long run than mere exposure to negative life events themselves. The findings bring attention to the possibility that positive changes in a person's subjective appraisal of negative life events could have beneficial consequences for long-term well-being., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Psychological climate for caring (PCC) is a psychosocial factor associated with individual work outcomes and employee well-being. Evidence on the impacts of various psychological climates at work is based mostly on self-reported health measures and cross-sectional data. We provide longitudinal evidence on the associations of PCC with subsequent diagnosed depression and anxiety, subjective well-being, and self-reported work outcomes. Employees of a US organization with a worker well-being program provided data for the analysis. Longitudinal survey data merged with data from personnel files and health insurance claims records comprising medical information on diagnosis of depression and anxiety were used to regress each outcome on PCC at baseline, adjusting for prior values of all outcomes and other covariates. PCC was found to be associated with lower odds of subsequent diagnosed depression, an increase in overall well-being, mental health, physical health, social connectedness, and financial security, as well as a decrease in distraction at work, an increase in productivity/engagement and possibly in job satisfaction. There was little evidence of associations between PCC and subsequent diagnosed anxiety, character strengths, and work-family conflict. Work policies focused on improving PCC may create a promising pathway to promoting employee health and well-being as well as improving work-related outcomes., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr. McNeely reports receiving grants and personal fees from Aetna Inc. and from the Levi Strauss Foundation. She also reports serving as director of SHINE at Harvard (Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise); Support is made possible through SHINE from multiple companies. Dr. VanderWeele reports receiving grants and personal fees from Aetna Inc. and from the John Templeton Foundation. Dr. Weziak-Bialowolska reports receiving support from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism2014–2021 (UMO-2020/37/K/HS6/02772). Other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. The research findings represent the perspective of the authors and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of any organization., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)