Network to Advance the Study of Mechanisms Underlying Mind-Body Interventions and Measurement of Emotional Wellbeing

摘要 虽然情绪幸福感（EWB;例如，生活满意度、幸福感、意义感， 目的，积极的情绪）在公共卫生越来越多地承认，研究已经滞后，由于缺乏 就EWB的基本组成部分、衡量其组成部分的有效方法以及 知情干预理论。身心干预（MBIs）越来越多地显示出减少 不良心理健康状态，包括功能障碍、抑郁、焦虑和压力。MBI是否也是 然而，在促进EWB方面的有效性仍远不清楚。此外，通过这些机制， 促进EWB，特别是它们如何在整个生命过程中以EWB为目标（例如，孩子们， 照顾者、有健康问题的成年人）在很大程度上仍不为人所知。为了弥补这一知识上的重大差距， 我们响应RFA-AT-20-003，提议领导一个网络，以加深我们对EWB的理解 衡量方法及其在作为成果和机制的市场指标中的作用。我们利用MPI的 在MBIs，EWB，测量，神经成像和代际传递方面的跨学科专业知识， 利用我们广泛的跨学科同事网络。为了促进MBIs和EWB之间的研究， 需要渠道和资源。首先，我们需要更全面地描述构成 EWB的伞形结构。其次，我们需要识别和/或创建心理测量声音乐器， 充分捕捉这些幸福的维度。第三，我们需要确定生物、心理和社会因素， MBIs促进和维持EWB的机制。包容性是必不可少的;除了更多的 典型的寿命方法，我们将重点放在人口往往排除在这一领域的工作，通过应用 发展和代际传递透镜，包括儿童和照顾者群体， 这对垂直移动磁场的工作至关重要。利用干预科学的这一关键时刻，我们将 建立一个网络，汇集一批研究人员，他们可以从彼此的工作中学习， 共同为新一代EWB研究建立创新和严谨的科学基础。的 该网络的首要目标是为研究人员提供概念和方法资源， 适当评估EWB，促进跨学科研究，阐明EWB在MBIs中的作用 既是一种结果本身，也是一种改善身心健康结果的机制。具体地说， 我们将为EWB创建一个组件分类法和一个跨越生命周期的度量集合， 通过完善适合人群一生的衡量工具和方法，建立一个工具包 课程，并确定潜在的机制，通过MBIs促进EWB。我们将实现这些目标 通过一系列活动，包括有针对性的战略，使广泛的学者网络，包括 早期职业生涯，共同学习和分享调查结果的重点会议，以及强大的多媒体传播。

ABSTRACT Although the critical role of Emotional Well-Being (EWB; e.g., life satisfaction, happiness, meaning and purpose, positive emotions) in public health is increasingly acknowledged, research has lagged due to lack of consensus on essential components of EWB, valid ways to measure its components, and mechanisms to inform intervention theory. Mind-body interventions (MBIs) increasingly demonstrate effectiveness in reducing adverse mental health states, including dysfunction, depression, anxiety, and stress. Whether MBIs are also effective in promoting EWB, however, remains far less clear. Further, the mechanisms through which MBIs facilitate EWB and especially how they may work to target EWB across the life course (e.g., children, caregivers, adults with health challenges) remain largely unknown. To address this crucial gap in knowledge, we respond to RFA-AT-20-003 in proposing to lead a network to deepen our understanding of EWB measurement approaches and their role in MBIs as outcomes and as mechanisms. We capitalize on MPIs' interdisciplinary expertise in MBIs, EWB, measurement, neuroimaging, and inter-generational transmission and tap our broad network of colleagues across disciplines. To promote research linking MBIs and EWB, new avenues and resources are needed. First, we need to more fully characterize the dimensions comprising the umbrella construct of EWB. Second, we need to identify and/or create psychometrically sound instruments that fully capture these dimensions of wellbeing. Third, we need to identify the biological, psychological, and social mechanisms through which MBIs promote and maintain EWB. Inclusivity is essential; in addition to the more typical lifespan approach, we will focus on populations often excluded from this area of work by applying a developmental and inter-generational transmission lens that includes both child and caregiver populations as critical to work that moves the field vertically. Capitalizing on this critical moment in intervention science, we will establish a network that brings together a corps of researchers who can learn from one another's work to collectively establish innovative and rigorous scientific bases for a new generation of EWB research. The overarching goal of the network is to provide researchers with the conceptual and methodological resources to appropriately assess EWB and to promote interdisciplinary research that illuminates the role of EWB in MBIs as both an outcome itself and as a mechanism in improving mental and physical health outcomes. Specifically, we will create a taxonomy of components and collection of measures for EWB that spans the life course, establish a toolkit by refining measurement tools and approaches appropriate for populations across the life course, and identify potential mechanisms through which MBIs promote EWB. We will achieve these aims through a series of activities that include targeted strategies to engage a broad network of scholars including early career, focused meetings for co-learning and sharing findings, and robust multi-media dissemination.