Cultural Wellbeing Models

Research papers related to Cultural And Indigenous Models

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Wellbeing travels through culture

Several of this week’s papers treat wellbeing as something shaped by place, institutions, media, and community perspectives. A clear through-line: measures and programs need cultural grounding, rather than one-size-fits-all tools.

Indigenous wellbeing frameworks challenge public and global health approaches that individualize or compartmentalize wellbeing, emphasizing holistic and ecological values.
Cross-cultural wellbeing research can test whether stress, autism-related assessments and family wellbeing, or workplace self-expression are being understood too narrowly.
Wellness can be studied as a community-based activity, as in group dance, or as an individualised consumer logic embedded in digital platforms.

Indigenous wellbeing on its own terms

A systematic scoping review for decolonial public and global health: Indigenous frameworks and models of wellbeing from Turtle Island and Moananuiākea

It maps Indigenous-developed wellbeing models from Turtle Island and Moananuiākea, centering holistic approaches and ecological values in public and global health.

Measurement of social and emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes in first nations children: A systematic review

It reviews whether mental health and social-emotional wellbeing tools for First Nations children in Australia are culturally valid and can support culturally safe assessment practices.

Being Heard, Being Valued, Being Understood—Aboriginal Community Perspectives on Adapting a Healthy Lifestyle Program for Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia: A Qualitative Study

It asks Aboriginal community representatives how to adapt a healthy lifestyle program for Boorloo/Perth in culturally safe, place-based ways.

Culture inside stress and voice

Cross-cultural associations between behavioural, emotional, and cognitive differences in autistic children and parental wellbeing: evidence from five countries

It examines links between autistic children’s behavioural, emotional, cognitive, and adaptive differences and parental wellbeing across five countries.

Cross-cultural impact of information anxiety on employee mental health in digital workplaces: a comparative study between Chinese and Western contexts

It compares how information anxiety affects employee mental health in Chinese and Western digital workplaces, including job stress and support.

Culture of silence: Is self-expression a matter of personality or organisational culture? Evidence from public health institutions

It studies whether self-expression among Ghanaian public health workers is shaped more by personality traits or perceived organisational cultural values.

Wellness in public life

Community-based square dancing is associated with improved physical and mental health in older adults: a 12-week randomized controlled trial in China

It tests square dancing, a culturally embedded group exercise in China, as a way to support older adults’ physical, mental, and social health.

Wellness creep into music streaming platforms: From pure chill to aural slop

It critiques how Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music fold individualised wellness culture into interfaces, playlists, and platform discourse.

Summary written from this week's papers and fact-checked against their abstracts.