The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness is pleased to announce the winners of its 2021 Early Career Seed Grant.
- Internet Use, Well-Being and Personal Attitudes: Does Type of Online Activity or Total Hours of Engagement Matter? – Dr. Pedro Antonio de la Rosa Fernández-Pacheco, postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program
- Much of the existing literature on internet use and well-being focuses on poor mental health outcomes, but the picture may be more complicated than that. This project will assess the effect of different internet usage types on a wide set of outcomes among younger adults – including happiness, well-being, health, and lifestyle. In addition, this project will assess how these outcomes may differ between generational categories (millennials vs. centennials).
- Student Belongingness within the Complex Landscape of Higher Education – Stephanie Taube, research fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
- Belonging and positive well-being are closely linked. Individuals with a strong sense of belonging are more likely to report themselves as healthy and satisfied with life. Despite diversity and inclusion initiatives, self-reported belonging in the workplace and classroom remains consistently lower among historically underrepresented groups. This project will address the question of what it means to “belong” as a student, with a goal of helping two- and four-year colleges improve sense of belonging among their students. Data collection will include interviews with Harvard University and University of Massachusetts Boston students of differing backgrounds with regard to race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and parental educational attainment.