Anzo Nguyen , Kady Carr , Michael Fitzgerald , Michael Sawada , Christopher Belanger , Daniel Danford Dussault , Vinh Nguyen , Elizabeth Kristjansson , Claire E. Kendall
{"title":"Integrating siloed data: A methodological approach to housing research in Ottawa, Canada","authors":"Anzo Nguyen , Kady Carr , Michael Fitzgerald , Michael Sawada , Christopher Belanger , Daniel Danford Dussault , Vinh Nguyen , Elizabeth Kristjansson , Claire E. Kendall","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Siloed data hinder the development of meaningful data tools on social and health issues. Housing is a social determinant of health that in recent years has become a major affordability issue in Canada. Data tools that provide a comprehensive overview of housing are necessary to support evidence-based policy, but housing data in Canada are siloed within a disparate array of data stewards. We describe the process of identifying and acquiring housing datasets from a wide variety of sources to create an integrated housing profile for Ottawa, Canada using a natural neighbourhood construct. We disseminated this knowledge through interactive maps and storytelling narratives. We offer recommendations to facilitate research using secondary data from multiple sources, including developing professional networks for inter-organizational collaboration, standardizing metadata across data stewards, and using creative narratives to integrate data in dissemination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100282"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144563519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Soma , P. Verweij , A. Francis , D. van Wonderen
{"title":"Citizens’ support to nature in Aruba—A study on sustainability and wellbeing","authors":"K. Soma , P. Verweij , A. Francis , D. van Wonderen","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Islands worldwide comprise about 6.7 % of Earth's land surface area, and are home to about 10 % of the world’s population. In addition, estimates suggest that islands host about 20 % of global areas defined as nature ecosystems. Unfortunately, extinction rates on islands are as high as 95 % of birds, 90 % of reptiles, 69 % of mammals and 68 % of plants. A collapse of biodiversity will threaten human life, health and wellbeing in future. The main aim of this article is to investigate the influence of contextual nature-related and socio-economic factors on subjective wellbeing perceptions among the Aruban inhabitants. A total of 771 residents of Aruba responded to a survey in 2023/2024. The results show that they exhibit very similar patterns in strongly prioritizing nature. Whereas 89 % of Dutch-born inhabitants reported having a very strong or strong connection with nature, this was true for 74 % of Aruba-born inhabitants, and 80 % of the people born elsewhere. Moreover, the results show that for socio-economic factors, the highest risk of wellbeing was reported to be income limitations. Only a share of 36 % of Aruba-born worked in the tourist branch, whereas 55 % of the residents born elsewhere did. Hence, in the relative intensive tourism industry in Aruba, the local communities have relatively low involvement in the tourism sector. Overall, this research contributes to deepening insights into the need for a shift towards a regenerative tourism approach, relying on the involvement and capabilities of local communities to foster sustainability and resilience to achieve the desired Sustainable Development Goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care home provision in southeast Asian countries: A systematic review","authors":"Kwan Foong Chee , Christine Milligan , Siobhan Reilly , Caroline Swarbrick , Say Leong Ooi , Serena Leow , Alyssa Yen Lyn Ding , Po Ling Chen , Kenneth Leow","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100279","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100279","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><div>This systematic review consolidates research evidence showing how the physical and social environments contribute to the experiences and wellbeing of older adults living in Residential Care Homes (RCHs) in Southeast Asia (SEA).</div></div><div><h3>Background</h3><div>The growing demand for RCHs in SEA is occurring at a time when a lack of understanding of the quality of the care environment is evident. Little is known about the relevance of these findings for SEA settings where culturally-driven expectations and the physical and social care environments are very different.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A systematic search of the literature published between 2000 to 2023 was undertaken to capture research evidence.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>35 studies reviewed from SEA countries indicate that both constructed and natural surroundings significantly impact residents' life experiences and overall wellbeing. Interactions and relationships within the care settings appear vital for residents' quality of life while cultural subtleties in the design and usage of these environments highlight how regional differences in perceptions of privacy and dignity greatly affect wellbeing outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Implication and Conclusion</h3><div>The review highlights how cultural differences influence the design and use of residential care home environments, with regional variations in concepts of privacy and dignity significantly affect well-being outcomes. These distinctions between the SEA model and Western approaches offer deeper insights into the culturally-specific factors contributing to the success of RCHs in SEA. Gaining such understanding is crucial for formulating care practices that are both culturally attuned and effective, tailored specifically to meet the distinctive needs of diverse older communities living in a RCH in SEA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100279"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gina Martin , Matt Treble , Cerina Dubois , Maria Ojala , Violeta Faulkner , Tasha Roswell , Kiffer Card , Jason Gilliland , Alina Cosma
{"title":"Psychometric properties of an Adapted Climate Change Coping Scale in a sample of Canadian adolescents","authors":"Gina Martin , Matt Treble , Cerina Dubois , Maria Ojala , Violeta Faulkner , Tasha Roswell , Kiffer Card , Jason Gilliland , Alina Cosma","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100325","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100325","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is a threat to the health and wellbeing of adolescents. Many adolescents express concern, worry, and anxiety about climate change. Yet, how adolescents are coping with their thoughts and feelings about climate change is not well understood. The objective of this research was to explore the psychometric properties of an Adapted Climate Change Coping Scale (CCCS-A) in a non-probabilistic sample of approximately 800 Canadian adolescents. Exploratory factor analysis was utilized. Internal reliability was assessed, and convergent validity was examined through analysis of correlations with related constructs. Correlations with wellbeing and mental health measures were also explored. The results indicated that four dimensions of coping with thoughts and feelings about climate change (de-emphasizing, distracting, problem-focused coping, and meaning-focused coping) were operationalized through a scale with 16-items. This extends prior scales in that it includes both measures of de-emphasizing and distracting coping within a single survey tool. Evidence of construct validity was found, and the internal reliability of subscales were good (ω ranged from 0.79 to 0.88). The sub-scales showed evidence of convergent validity. Additionally, all coping dimensions were positively associated with wellbeing, while associations with mental health problems were mixed across coping dimensions. The CCCS-A is a survey tool with demonstrated validity and reliability that captures a range of coping strategies adolescents use in response to climate change. This addresses a critical gap in climate change and mental wellbeing research by presenting a validated tool to assess adolescent climate change coping mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145617957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practising wellbeing: Non-representational approaches to asylum seekers’ and refugees’ therapeutic landscape experiences","authors":"Josephine Biglin","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of enforced marginality within the UK asylum system, exploring informal and place-based forms of wellbeing is significant. Drawing on two sensory ethnographies in urban allotments and a creative participatory project conducted in the city, this article uses non-representational theory (NRT) as a lens to explore asylum “seekers” and “refugees” therapeutic landscape experiences in Manchester, England. The contribution of NRT to the study of therapeutic landscape experiences in recent years has recognised the active, embodied, affective and performative nature of the place-wellbeing nexus. This has allowed for an exploration of the relationship beyond neoliberal, individualistic and biomedical frameworks of health and wellbeing. Through vignettes the article illuminates where participants, against a backdrop of marginalisation and oppression, carved out space and time to engage in different embodied practices that alongside materiality, time and space, power and positionality, sensory experience and incorporeality created atmospheres in flux and opened the body to be positively affected. The findings not only have implications for how we define wellbeing in therapeutic landscape research conducted with socially excluded groups, but using NRT as a lens allows us to consider what else is happening in a therapeutic landscape experience, including the potential for disrupting forms of Othering.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145617961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care","authors":"Tess Osborne , Thomas A Lowe , Louise Meijering","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100295","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Informal caring is often framed as an individualised activity, with support networks positioned as peripheral rather than integral to sustaining care. This paper challenges such framings by theorising social support as a structuring force within landscapes of care, shaping how informal dementia caring is organised, negotiated, and experienced. Drawing on qualitative interviews and graphic elicitation with carers, the study foregrounds ‘caring <em>with</em>’ to explore the co-participatory, distributed, and relational dimensions of caring. While landscapes of care have been widely used to explore how care unfolds across social and spatial contexts, limited attention has been given to how carers themselves are supported within these landscapes. The findings reveal that community actors, such as friends, neighbours, and community networks, not only alleviate carer burden but actively co-produce care, redistributing responsibilities and reconfiguring caring relationships. By centring social support within landscapes of care, this paper calls for a repositioning of social support in studies on care: not as an adjunct to care, but as fundamental to how care itself is sustained and negotiated over time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily T Murray , Avril Keating , Cara Booker , Claire Cameron , Sam Whewall , Stephen Jivraj
{"title":"Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland","authors":"Emily T Murray , Avril Keating , Cara Booker , Claire Cameron , Sam Whewall , Stephen Jivraj","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research has shown that English adolescents who lived in the most deprived coastal neighbourhoods had worse mental health up to 11 years later than if they had lived in equivalent inland neighbourhoods. We used the same twelve waves (2009–2022) of Understanding Society, to examine whether this association was explained by the places the study members lived (31 objectively measured built, social, economic and educational indicators linked via residential lower-super output areas) or their collective individual socio-demographics when they were adolescents (aged 10–15yrs). Coastal youth (<em>n</em> = 764) were exposed to worse average levels of sixteen environmental measures and better average levels for five environmental measures, than their peers inland (<em>n</em> = 4157). The concentration of area deprivation was also greater for coastal youth compared with their inland peers. When longitudinal models were fitted between environmental measures and SF-12 mental functioning scores (MCS) during adulthood (age 16+), only local crime and higher education participation were independently associated with MCS [Top 20 % vs Bottom 20 % (95 % Confidence interval): -1.20 (-2.38, -0.03) and Middle 20 % vs Worse 20 %: 1.07 (0.09, 2.05)] after adjustment for socio-demographics. As well, the amplified effect of area deprivation on MCS in coastal, compared to inland, areas was reduced the most by adjustment for individual socio-demographics [interaction term coastal*Top20 % deprived area: -5.1 (-8.1, -2.2) to -4.3 (-7.0, -1.6)], rather than the two environmental measures [further reduced to -3.9 (-6.7,-1.1)]. Results from this paper suggest policies to improve young adult’s mental health in England should target the socioeconomic circumstances of households in the most deprived coastal areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imogen M. Sloss , Jasmine Zhang , Alison Pearson , Dillon T. Browne
{"title":"The association between well-being and belonging differs across census-defined neighbourhoods for Ontario youth","authors":"Imogen M. Sloss , Jasmine Zhang , Alison Pearson , Dillon T. Browne","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The goal of the current study was to explore the association between belonging and well-being in children and youth. Close attention was paid to the role of neighbourhoods, where associations were permitted to operate differentially across youths’ local environment, in addition to individual and interpersonal factors that may account for this effect modification. Data came from a regional survey in Southern Ontario designed to monitor well-being in young people (n = 1842; aged 9-18 years). Youth provided their forward sortation area (FSA), permitting linkage with 2021 census-defined socioeconomic status (SES) and immigration levels. Two-level multilevel models revealed statistically significant variance in well-being at neighbourhood (11.1%) and individual (88.9%) levels (plus error). A random slope was observed for belonging, suggesting that the belonging/well-being association varied across neighbourhoods. Greater well-being was observed in youth born outside of Canada, and when youth reported higher family or friend support, and neighbourhood safety and resources. Effect modification (moderation) on the belonging/well-being association was observed for gender, family support, country of birth, and neighbourhood safety. Findings affirm theoretical models suggesting that well-being in young people emerges in a complex multilevel ecology. There is an ongoing need for public health programs that are sensitive to local geographic differences, while considering the role of belonging within the proximal and distal social contexts of young people.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural lives and perceived well-being in commercializing landscapes of northern Laos","authors":"Wai Phyoe Maung , Yoth Vanhnasin , Sithong Thongmanivong , Andi Patiware Metaragakusuma , Alimata Sidibe , Grace Yee Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The government of Laos views agricultural commercialization as a key policy instrument for improving the livelihoods of farm households and contributing to rural development. Recent studies indicate that these commercialization processes are not solely state-driven but are often actively embraced by local communities. Here, we examine how contemporary farming practices in the commercialized landscapes of northern Laos influence farmers’ perceptions of well-being and fairness. Using a combination of participatory methods, an adapted well-being framework, and a multidimensional equity lens, we analyze rural life in northern Laos. The findings reveal that foreign agricultural investments have increased income and asset accumulation, particularly through rubber and sugarcane sales, but economic gains are distributed unevenly. Land-poor farmers are increasingly reliant on wage labor, contributing to growing social inequalities. The paper highlights how social pressures alongside government policies are driving the shift toward industrial agricultural practices and commercial plantations. Additionally, it touches upon the ‘capability approach’, emphasizing access to forests and land as key components of well-being. The central argument is that perceptions of fairness in agricultural commercialization are influenced by factors such as land rights recognition, equitable land distribution, and participation in decision-making processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145415155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Run with feeling: A qualitative content analysis of runner sentiment in Metro Vancouver","authors":"Stella R. Harden, Nadine Schuurman","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100326","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines features associated with runner sentiment, or feelings, based on qualitative narratives in the form of Strava social media posts among 72 men and 65 women in Metropolitan Vancouver, Canada. Posts were drawn from an Open Authorization (OAuth) portal recruiting runners who used Strava, a popular fitness-tracking social media platform. First, sentiment analysis detected the emotional polarity of posts along a spectrum between -1 to +1, indicating extreme negativity and extreme positivity, respectively. Then, a content analysis of highly positive (0.8 to 1) and negative (-1 to -0.7) posts was conducted to determine the topics associated with extreme runner sentiment. The content analysis resulted in six categories and 26 sub-categories. The categories, in order of frequency, were (1) psychological aspects, (2) interpersonal experience, (3) weather, (4) surroundings, (5) physical experience, and (6) path. Results from this study demonstrate the nuanced personal characteristics influencing runner preferences and experiences. Findings provide insight into factors that may promote or inhibit wellbeing during runs by using direct accounts from Strava runner narratives, a population primarily only studied through quantitative mapping.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145617960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}