TY  - JOUR
AU  - Supke, Max
AU  - Schäfer, Sarah K
AU  - Meier, Jana
AU  - Hamada, Hiro Taiyo
AU  - Yamada, Makiko
AU  - Wessa, Michele
AU  - Lieb, Klaus
TI  - Positive mental states and their relation to psychosocial resources: protocol of a systematic review focusing on cultural moderators.
JO  - BMJ open
VL  - 15
IS  - 8
SN  - 2044-6055
CY  - London
PB  - BMJ Publishing Group
M1  - DKFZ-2025-01696
SP  - e103821
PY  - 2025
N1  - Protocoll of a systematic review
AB  - Fostering well-being and positive mental states are major aims of many strategies for the promotion of public mental health. Such strategies become increasingly important since many people worldwide suffer from psychological distress and mental disorders, resulting in substantial individual and societal costs. Within the last years, there is a shift from strategies solely focusing on the reduction of mental distress to those also aiming at the promotion of positive mental states. Correlates, that is, psychosocial resources, of positive mental states may represent a starting point for those interventions. To date, a comprehensive systematic review on those correlates is still missing as well as knowledge on culture-related differences.A systematic review and meta-analysis on the longitudinal link between psychosocial resources (eg, income, optimism, social support and community coherence) and hedonic and eudaimonic positive mental states (eg, life satisfaction, happiness and forward-looking attitude) will be conducted. Using Hofstede's dimensions of culture and global metrics of Education, Industrialisation, Richness and Democratic values (EIRDness), we will examine culture-related moderators of these associations. The systematic review will be conducted following standards of the Cochrane Collaboration and will be reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyse guidelines. Literature searches for primary studies will be carried out across four databases (APA PsycNet, Embase, Scopus and the Web of Science Core Collection), including all publications up to 27 January 2025. Screening at the level of titles and abstracts will be performed with the help of artificial intelligence software (ASReview). Study quality will be assessed using an adapted version of the Newcastle Ottawa Scale. We will employ multilevel meta-analyses of correlation coefficients, with cultural variables being examined as moderators.This systematic review does not require ethics approval, as it solely uses previously published data. Materials and data used for this review will be shared via open repositories (https://osf.io/2xkhs/). Results will be published in an international, peer-reviewed journal and presented at conferences including plain language summaries. OSF REGISTRATION DOI : https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/K7X52.
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH (Other)
KW  - Meta-Analysis (Other)
KW  - Quality of Life (Other)
KW  - Systematic Review (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40812806
DO  - DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103821
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/303506
ER  -