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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Carol D. Ryff is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a significant emphasis on social psychology, applied psychology, and health-related subfields.

Their body of work encompasses a range of topics including psychological well-being and life satisfaction, health disparities and outcomes, optimism and hope, employment and welfare studies, sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, mental health research, and nutritional studies and diet.

Selected recent publications by Carol D. Ryff include:

  • Positive Psychology: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Spirituality and Well-Being: Theory, Science, and the Nature Connection, 2021, Religions

They have contributed to research alongside several frequent coauthors such as Loni Berkowitz, Attilio Rigotti, Christopher L. Coe, Guadalupe Echeverría, and Cristián Salazar.

Their research appears often in specific publication venues, including:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Health Psychology

Throughout their career, Carol D. Ryff has contributed to 63 publications in psychology, with notable subfields covering social psychology (28 publications), applied psychology (15 publications), health (15), general health professions (13), and clinical psychology (9).

They received the recognition of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being.

    Carol D. Ryff

  • The structure of psychological well-being revisited

    Carol D. Ryff;Corey Lee M. Keyes

  • Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions.

    Corey L. M. Keyes;Dov Shmotkin;Carol D. Ryff

  • The Contours of Positive Human Health

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer

  • Psychological Well-Being in Adult Life

    Carol D. Ryff

  • Psychological well-being revisited: advances in the science and practice of eudaimonia.

    Carol D. Ryff

  • Psychological Well-Being: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications for Psychotherapy Research

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Beyond ponce de leon and life satisfaction new directions in quest of successful ageing

    Carol D. Ryff

  • Positive health: connecting well-being with biology.

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer;Gayle Dienberg Love

  • Social inequalities in health: next questions and converging evidence.

    Michael Marmot;Carol D. Ryff;Larry L. Bumpass;Martin Shipley

  • Personality and well-being: reexamining methods and meanings.

    Pamela S. Schmutte;Carol D. Ryff

  • Interpersonal Flourishing: A Positive Health Agenda for the New Millennium:

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Possible selves in adulthood and old age: a tale of shifting horizons.

    Carol D. Ryff

  • Best news yet on the six-factor model of well-being

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer;Burton H. Singer

  • In the eye of the beholder: views of psychological well-being among middle-aged and older adults.

    Carol D. Ryff

  • How Healthy Are We?: A National Study of Well- Being at Midlife

    Orville Gilbert Brim;Carol D. Ryff;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Psychological Well-Being and Ill-Being: Do They Have Distinct or Mirrored Biological Correlates?

    Carol D. Ryff;Gayle Dienberg Love;Heather L. Urry;Daniel Muller

  • Making a Life Worth Living Neural Correlates of Well-Being

    Heather L. Urry;Jack B. Nitschke;Isa Dolski;Daren C. Jackson

  • Social relationships, gender, and allostatic load across two age cohorts.

    Teresa E Seeman;Burton H Singer;Carol D Ryff;Gayle Dienberg Love

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuri Miyamoto
Yuri Miyamoto Hitotsubashi University
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell
Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell Auburn University
Corey L. M. Keyes
Corey L. M. Keyes Emory University
Carien M. van Reekum
Carien M. van Reekum University of Reading
Matthew M. Burg
Matthew M. Burg Yale University
Marilyn J. Essex
Marilyn J. Essex University of Wisconsin–Madison

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