Site: midus.wisc.edu
Updated 5/16/22
Country: United States
Study design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time
Participant age range:
- Early adulthood or midlife
- Aging adults
Number of participants at baseline: 7,108
Year of initial enrollment: 1995
Number of data collection waves: 4
Measures of well-being:
- Positive psychological well-being (overall / multidimensional)
- Optimism
- Positive affect
- Purpose / meaning in life / ikigai
- Life satisfaction
- Mastery
- Personal growth or self-acceptance
- Healthy family functioning
Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times well-being was assessed): High
Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): High
Measures of physical health:
- Self-rated / questionnaire-based health
- Self-report medical history or medication use
- Measured anthropometrics, e.g., weight
- Biomarkers
Access Information:
This dataset is available to all researchers.
Researchers are not required to submit an application to access this data.
There are no fees required to access this dataset.
Notable citation:
Morozink J, Friedman E, Coe C & Ryff C. (2010). Socioeconomic and psychosocial predictors of interleukin-6 in the MIDUS national sample. Health Psychology, 29(6), 626.