Books

  1. Kern, M. L., & Wehmeyer, M. L. (Eds.). (2021). Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. Palgrave Macmillan. (freely available from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64537-3)
  2. Allen, K. A., & Kern, M. L. (2019). Boosting school belonging: Practical strategies to help adolescents feel like they belong at school. New York: Routledge. (available from Amazon here)
  3. Allen, K. A., & Kern, M. L. (2017). School belonging in adolescents: Theory, research and practice. Singapore: Springer Briefs in Psychology. (available from Amazon here)
  4. McQuaid, M., & Kern, P. (2017). Your wellbeing blueprint: Feeling good and doing well at work. Victoria, Australia: McQuaid Ltd. (www.michellemcquaid.com/product/your-wellbeing-blueprint/)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

H index (Google Scholar) = 63

Note: I have included links to the articles through the publishers. Many of these are open access (i.e., for free from the journal). For the articles that are not open access, I have included a link to the accepted version of the manuscripts (these may differ slightly from the final version published by the journal). I have also included some of the supplemental files for different articles.

If you find an article useful, please cite it! 
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In Press
  1. Beresford, K., Kern, M. L., & Jarden, A. (in press). The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education. The Journal of Positive Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2024.2322467
  2. Kern, M. L., Arguís-Rey, R., Chaves, C., White, M. A., & Zhao, M. Y. (in press). Developing guidelines for program design, practice, and research toward a positive and well-being education practice. The Journal of Positive Psychology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439760.2024.2352743
  3. Kozlowski, D., Provost, S. C., & Kern, M. L. (in press). “The very process made me happier!” Is pleasure research an affective intervention? The Journal of Positive Psychology.

2024
  1. Giorgi, S., Jones, J. J., Buone, A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Yaden, D. B., Elstein, J., Zamani, M., Kregor, J., Smith, L., Seligman, M. E. P., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L., & Schwartz, H. A. (2024). Quantifying generalized trust in individuals and counties using language. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2024.1384262
  2. Hall, J. R., Deery, B., Kern, M. L., Clinton, J., & Quach, J. (2024). An adaptation of the KidCOPE: the KidCOPE-parent (KidCOPE-P) – a parent report measure of child coping strategies. Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20590776.2024.2341783
  3. Lancaster, K., Kern, M. L., Harding, K., Bayasgalan, M., Janson, A., Mahmic, S., & Bhopti, A. (2024). Exploring long-termoutcomes of a peer support programme for parents of children with disability in Australia. Child: Care, Health and Development, 50(2): e13236. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.13236

2023
  1. Chia, A., Doyle, K., & Kern, M. L. (2023). Community construals of CSR for happiness: A mixed-method study using natural language. Society and Business Review, 18(2), 296-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-05-2022-0149 (pdf)
  2. Donaldon, S. I., Donaldson, S. I., McQuaid, M., & Kern, M. L. (2023). The PERMA+4 short scale: A cross cultural empirical validation using item response theory. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 8, 555-569. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41042-023-00110-9   
  3. McCarthy, P. X., Gong, X., Braesemann, F., Stephany, F., Rizoiu, M.-A., & Kern, M. L. (2023). The impact of founder personalities on startup success. Nature Scientific Reports, 13: article #17200. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41980-y
  4. Yaden, D. B., Giorgi, S., Kern, M. L., Adler, A., Ungar, L. H., Seligman, M. E. P., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2023). Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional Aspects of Religion and Spirituality in Language. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(2), 272–280.  https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000408 

2022
  1. Giorgi, S., Nguyen, K. L., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Yaden, D. B., Kosinski, M., Seligman, M. E. P., Ungar, L. H., Schwartz, H. A., & Park, G. (2022). Regional personality assessment through social media language. Journal of Personality, 90(3), 405-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12674  (pdf) 
  2. Huang, L., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2022).  Chinese international students’ conceptualizations of wellbeing: A prototype analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:939576. https://doi.org10.3389/fpsyg.2022.939576 
  3. Huang, L., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2022).  Experiences of Chinese international students living in Australia: Wellbeing from "we" to "me". International Journal of Wellbeing, 12(3), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v12i3.1915
  4. Ignjatovic, C., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2022). Flow support at work: Examining the relationship between strengths use and flow at work among school staff over a three-year period. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 455-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00409-x (pdf)
  5. Ignjatovic, C., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2022). The VIVA Sustainable Work Engagement Model: A Conceptual Introduction and Preliminary Test Over Three Years. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41042-022-00064-4 
  6. Lancaster, K., Bhopti, A., Kern, M. L., Taylor, R., Janson, A., & Harding, K. (2022). Effectiveness of peer support programmes for improving wellbeing and quality of life in parents/carers of children with disability or chronic illness: A systematic review. Child: Care, Health, and Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.13063 (pdf)
  7. Ramirez-Duran, D., Kern, M. L., &Stokes, H. (2022). More than a feeling: Perceptions of wellbeing in regular Ashtanga Yoga practitioners. International Journal of Wellbeing, 12(2), 88-113. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v12i2.2027
  8. Waters, L., Cameron, K., Nelson-Coffey, S. K., Crone, D. L., Kern, M. L., Lomas, T., Oades, L., Owens, R. L., Pawelski, J. O., Rashid, T., Warren, M. A., White, M. A., & Williams, P. (2021). Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(6), 761-789. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.1940251 (pdf)
2021
  1. Allen, K.-A. Kern, M. L., Rozek, C. S., McInerney, D., & Slavich, G. M. (2021). Belonging: A review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research. Australian Journal of Psychology, 73(1), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530.2021.1883409  (pdf)
  2. Chia, A., & Kern, M. L. (2021). Subjective wellbeing and the social responsibilities of business: An exploratory investigation of Australian perspectives. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 16, 1881-1908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-020-09846-x (pdf)
  3. Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Yaden, D. B., Schwartz, H. A., Giorgi, S., Park, G., Hagan, C. A., Tobolsky, V. A., Smith, L. K., Buffone, A., Iwry, J., Seligman, M. E. P., & Ungar, L. H. (2021). Closed- and open-vocabulary approaches to text analysis: A review, quantitative comparison, and recommendations. Psychological Methods, 26(4), 398-427. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000349 (pdf)
  4. Hill, J. L., Kern, M. L., Seah, W. T., & van Driel, J. (2021). A model of student mathematical wellbeing: Australian grade 8 students’ conceptions. In M. Inprasitha, N. Changsri, & N. Boonsena (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp. 32-39). Khon Kaen, Thailand: PME. http://www.igpme.org/publications/current-proceedings/
  5. Lomas, T., Waters, L. E., Williams, P., Oades, L., & Kern, M. L. (2021). Third wave positive psychology: Broadening towards complexity. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(5), 660-674. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1805501 (pdf)
  6. Mahmic, S., Kern, M. L., & Janson, A. (2021). Identifying and shifting disempowering paradigms for families of children with disability through a systems informed positive psychology approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663640​

2020
  1. Black, B., & Kern, M. L. (2020). A qualitative exploration of individual differences in wellbeing for highly sensitive individuals. Palgrave Communications, 6:103. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0482-8
  2. Chia, A., Kern, M. L., & Neville, B. A. (2020). CSR for happiness: Corporate determinants of societal happiness as social responsibility. Business Ethics, 29, 422.437. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12274
  3. Eichstaedt, J. C., Yaden, D. B., Ribiero, F., Adler, A., & Kern, M. L. (2020). Lifestyle and wellbeing: Exploring behavioral and demographic covariates in a large US sample. International Journal of Wellbeing, 10(4), 87-112. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v10i4.831
  4. Halliday, A. J., Kern, M. L., Garrett, D. K., & Turnbull, D. A. (2020). Understanding factors affecting positive education in practice: An Australian Case Study. Contemporary School Psychology, 24, 128-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-019-00229-0
  5. Huang, L., Kern, M. L., & Oades, L. G. (2020). Strengthening university student wellbeing: Language and perceptions of Chinese international students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17: 5538. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155538
  6. Jaidka, K., Giorgi, S., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L. H., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2020). Estimating geographic subjective well-being from Twitter: A comparison of dictionary and data-driven language models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 117, 10165-10171. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1906364117
  7. Kern, M. L., Williams, P., Spong, C., Colla, R., Sharma, K., Downie, A., Taylor, J. A., Sharp, S., Siokou, C., & Oades, L. G. (2020). Systems informed positive psychology. Journal of Positive Psychology, 15, 705-715. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1639799
  8. Pongiglione, B., Kern, M. L., Carpentieri, JD., Schwartz, H. A., Gupta, N., & Goodman, A. (2020). Do children’s expectations about future physical activity predict their physical activity in adulthood? International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(5), 1749-1758. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa131 (pdf)
  9. Quach, J. L., Deery, B., Kern, M. L., Clinton, J., Gold, L., Orsini, F., & Sciberras, E. (2020). Can a teacher-led mindfulness intervention for new school entrants improve child outcomes? Protocol for a school cluster randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10: e036523. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036523
  10. Sun, J., Schwartz, H. A., Son, Y., Kern, M. L., & Vazire, S. (2020). The language of well-being: Tracking fluctuations in emotion experience through everyday speech. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 364-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000244 (pdf)

2019
  1. Cahill, H. Kern, M. L., Dadvand, B., Cruickshank, E. W., Midford, R., Smith, C., Farrelly, A., & Oades, L. G. (2019). An integrative approach to evaluating the implementation of social and emotional learning and gender-based violence prevention education. International Journal of Emotional Education, 11, 135-152. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42659
  2. Halliday, A. J., Kern, M. L., Garrett, D. K., & Turnbull, D. A. (2019). The student voice in wellbeing: A case study of participatory action research in positive education. Educational Action Research, 27, 173-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2018.1436079
  3. Kern, M. L., McCarthy, P. X., Chakrabarty, D., & Rizoiu, M.-A. (2019). Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 116(52). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1917942116
  4. Kern, M. L., Zeng, G., Hou, H., & Peng, K. (2019). The Chinese version of the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Wellbeing: Testing cross-cultural measurement invariance. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37, 757-769. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282918789561   (supplement)
  5. Slemp, G. R., Jach, H. K., Chia, A., Loton, D., & Kern, M. L. (2019). Contemplative interventions and employee distress: A meta-analysis. Stress and Health, 35, 227-255. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2857
  6. Zeng, G., & Kern, M. L. (2019). The Chinese EPOCH measure of adolescent wellbeing: Further testing of the psychometrics of the measure. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1457. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01457

2018
  1. Allen, K.-A., Kern, M. L., Vella-Brodrick, D., Hattie, J., & Waters, L. (2018). What schools need to know about fostering school belonging: A meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 30, 1-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10648-016-9389-8
  2. Allen, K., Kern, M. L., Vella-Brodrick, D., & Waters, L. (2018). Understanding the priorities of Australian secondary schools through an analysis of their mission and vision statements. Educational Administration Quarterly, 54, 249-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X18758655
  3. Carpenter, J., Preotiuc-Pietro, D., Clark, J., Flekova, L., Smith, L., Kern, M. L., . . . Seligman, M. (2018). The impact of actively open-minded thinking on social media communication. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 562-574. http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18328/jdm18328.pdf
  4. Hakimi, S., Talepasand, S., Rahimian, I., Kern, M. L. (2018). Evaluation of positive psychotherapy effects on students’ depression, well-being, and academic achievement in mathematics and experimental sciences. Journal of Educational Psychology Studies, 14, 49-82. [in Persian] http://jeps.usb.ac.ir/article_3600_16245507a325ef1999d0e757050cf710.pdf
  5. Kulkarni, V., Kern, M. L., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Matz, S., Ungar, L., Skiena, S., & Schwartz, H. A. (2018). Latent human traits in the language of social media: An open-vocabulary approach. PLoS One, 13(11), e0201703. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201703 
  6. Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., Fulcher, B. D., & Rickard, N. S (2018). Predicting depression from language-based emotion dynamics: Longitudinal analysis of Facebook and Twitter status updates. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(5): e168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.9267
  7. Slemp, G. R., Kern, M. L., Patrick, K. J., & Ryan, R. M. (2018). Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 706-724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9698-y
  8. Tay, L., Ng, V., Malik, A., Zhang, J., Ebert, D. S., Ding, Y., Zhao, J., & Kern, M. L. (2018). Big data visualizations in organizational Science. Organizational Research Methods, 21, 660-688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094428117720014
  9. Watanabe, K., Kawakami, N., Shiotani, T., Adachi, H., Matsumoto, K., Imamura, K., …, & Kern, M. L. (2018). The Japanese workplace PERMA-Profiler: A validation study among Japanese workers. Journal of Occupational Health, 60, 383-393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1539/joh.2018-0050-OA (appendix)
  10. White, M., & Kern, M. L. (2018). Positive education: Learning and teaching for wellbeing and academic mastery. International Journal of Wellbeing 8(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v8i1.588
  11. Yaden, D. B., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Smith, L. K., Buffone, A., Stillwell, D. J., …, & Schwartz, H. A. (2018). The language of religious affiliation: Social, emotional, and cognitive differences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 444-452. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550617711228  

2017
  1. Allen, K.-A., Kern, M. L., Vella-Brodrick, & Waters, L. (2017). School values: A comparison of academic motivation, mental health promotion, and school belonging with student achievement. The Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 34, 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/edp.2017.5
  2. Buchanan, A., & Kern, M. L. (2017). The benefit mindset: The psychology of contribution and everyday leadership. International Journal of Wellbeing, 7, 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v7i1.538
  3. Carpenter, J., Preotiuc-Pietro, D., Flekova, L., Giorgi, S., Hagan, C., Kern, M. L., …, & Seligman, M. E. P. (2017). Real men don’t say “cute”: Using automatic language analysis to isolate inaccurate aspects of stereotypes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 310-322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550616671998
  4. Guntuku, S. C., Yaden, D. B., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L. H.., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2017). Detecting depression and mental illness on social media: An integrative review. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 18, 43-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.07.005 (pdf)
  5. Park, G., Schwartz, H. A., Sap, M., Kern, M. L., Weingarten, E., Eichstaedt, J. C., …, & Seligman, M. E. P. (2017). Living in the past, present, and future: Measuring temporal orientation with language. Journal of Personality, 85, 270-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12239 (pdf)
  6. Yaden, D. B., Le Nguyen, K. D., Kern, M. L., Belser, A. B., Eichstaedt, J. C., Iwry, J., …, & Newberg, A. B. (2017). Of roots and fruits: A comparison of psychedelic and non-psychedelic mystical experiences. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 57, 338-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167816674625
  7. Yaden, D. B., Le Nguyen, K. D., Kern, M. L., Wintering, N. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., …, & Newberg, A. B. (2017). The noetic quality: A multi-method exploratory study. Psychology of Consciousness, 4, 54-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000098
  8. Williams, P., Kern, M. L., & Waters, L. (2017). The role and reprocessing of attitudes in fostering employee work happiness: An intervention study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(28). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00028

2016
  1. Butler, J., & Kern, M. L. (2016). The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6, 1-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v6i3.526
  2. Kern, M. L., Benson, L., Larson, L., Forrest, C. B., Bevans, K. B., & Steinberg, L. (2016). The anatomy of developmental predictors of healthy lives study (TADPOHLS). Applied Developmental Science, 20, 135-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2015.1095642 (pdf) (supplement)
  3. Kern, M. L., Benson, L., Steinberg, E. A., & Steinberg, L. (2016). The EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being. Psychological Assessment, 28, 586-597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000201  (pdf) (supplement)
  4. Kern, M. L., Park, G., Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Sap, M., Smith, L. K., & Ungar, L. H. (2016). Gaining insights from social media language: Methodologies and challenges. Psychological Methods, 21, 507-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000091 (pdf)
  5. Park, G., Yaden, D. B., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kosinski, M., …, & Seligman, M. E. P. (2016). Women are warmer but no less assertive than men: Gender and language on Facebook. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0155885. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155885   
  6. Preotiuc-Pietro, D., Schwartz, H. A., Park, G., Eichstaedt, J., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L., Shulman, E.P. (2016). Modelling valence and arousal in Facebook posts. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA), NAACL. https://wwbp.org/papers/va16wassa.pdf
  7. Schwartz, H. A., Sap, M. Kern, M. L., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kapelner, A., Agrawal, M., …, & Ungar, L. H. (2016). Predicting individual well-being through the language of social media. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 21, 516-527. http://wwbp.org/papers/2016_predicting_wellbeing.pdf
  8. Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, R. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: A systematic review. JMIR Mental Health, 3(4): e50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mental.5842
  9. Williams, P, Kern, M. L., & Waters, L. (2016). Exploring selective exposure and confirmation bias as processes underlying employee work happiness: An intervention study. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 878. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00878  
  10. Yaden, D. B., Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Le Nguyen, K. D., Wintering, N. A., Hood, R. W., & Newberg, A. B. (2016). The language of ineffability: Linguistic analysis of mystical experiences. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 8, 244-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000043  

2015
  1. Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Park, G., Labarthe, D. R., Merchant, R. M., …, & Seligman, M. E. P. (2015). Psychological language on Twitter predicts county-level heart disease mortality. Psychological Science, 26, 159-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797614557867  
  2. Farber, R. S. Kern, M. L., & Brusilovsky, E. (2015). Integrating the ICF and positive psychology: Factors predicting role participation for mothers with multiple sclerosis. Rehabilitation Psychology, 60, 169-178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000023 (pdf)
  3. Kern, M. L., & Bowling, D. S. (2015). Character strengths and academic performance in law students. Journal of Research in Personality, 55, 25-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2014.12.003 (pdf) (supplement)
  4. Kern, M. L., Waters, L., Adler, A., & White, M. (2015). A multifaceted approach to measuring wellbeing in students: Application of the PERMA framework. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 262-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2014.936962
  5. Khaw, D., & Kern, M. L. (2015). A cross-cultural comparison of the PERMA model of well-being. Undergraduate Journal of Psychology and Berkley. http://ujpb.org/vol8.html  (pdf)
  6. Park, G., Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. J., Ungar, L. H., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2015). Automatic personality assessment through social media language. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 934-952. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000020
  7. Schwartz, H. A., Park, G. J., Sap, M., Weingarten, E., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., …, & Ungar, L. H. (2015). Extracting human temporal orientation through Facebook. 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015).  https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~hansens/tempor-naacl15-cr.pdf
  8. Slemp, G. R., Vella-Brodrick, D. A., & Kern, M. L. (2015). Workplace well-being: The role of job crafting and autonomy support. Psychology of Well-being, 5:7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13612-015-0034-y   
  9. Williams, P., Waters, L., & Kern, M. L. (2015). A longitudinal examination of the association between psychological capital, perception of organizational virtues and work happiness in school staff. Psychology of Well-being: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5:5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13612-015-0032-0  

2014
  1. Duggan, K. A., Reynolds, C. A., Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2014). Childhood sleep duration and lifelong mortality risk. Health Psychology, 33, 1195-1203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hea0000078 (pdf)
  2. Friedman, H. S., & Kern, M. L. (2014). Personality, well-being, and health. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 719-742. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115123  (pdf)
  3. Friedman, H. S., Kern, M. L., Hampson, S. E., & Duckworth, A. L. (2014). A new lifespan approach to conscientiousness and health: Combining the pieces of the causal puzzle. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1377-1389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030373 (pdf)
  4. Kern, M. L., Della Porta, S. S., & Friedman, H. S. (2014). Lifelong pathways to longevity: Personality, relationships, flourishing, and health. Journal of Personality, 82, 472-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12062  (pdf) 
  5. Kern, M. L., Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Dziurzynski, L., Ungar, L. H., Stillwell, D. J., … & Seligman, M. E. P. (2014). The online social self: An open vocabulary approach to personality. Assessment, 21, 158-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191113514104  
  6. Kern, M. L., Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Park, G., Ungar, L. H., Stillwell, D. J., … & Seligman, M. E. P. (2014). From “sooo excited!!!” to “so proud”: Using language to study development. Developmental Psychology, 50, 178-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035048  (pdf)
  7. Kern, M. L., Hampson, S. E., Goldberg, L. R., & Friedman, H. S. (2014). Integrating prospective longitudinal data: Modeling personality and health in the Terman Life Cycle and Hawaii Longitudinal studies. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1390-1406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030874  (pdf)
  8. Kern, M. L., Waters, L., White, M., & Adler, A. (2014). Assessing employee wellbeing in schools using a multifaceted approach: Associations with physical health, life satisfaction, and professional thriving. Psychology, 5, 500-513. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2014.56060   
  9. Sap, M., Park, G., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Stillwell, D. J., Kosinki, M., Ungar, L. H., & Schwartz, H. A. (2014). Developing age and gender predictive lexica over social media. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMLNP). Doha, Qatar. http://emnlp2014.org/papers/pdf/EMNLP2014121.pdf
  10. Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Park, G., Sap, M., Stillwell, D. J., Kosinski, M., & Ungar, L. H. (2014). Towards assessing changes in degree of depression through Facebook. Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality. Baltimore, Maryland. http://acl2014.org/acl2014/W14-32/pdf/W14-3214.pdf

2013
  1. Kern, M. L., Duckworth, A. L., Urzua, S., Loeber, R., Loeber, M., & Lynam, D. (2013). Do as you’re told! Facets of agreeableness and early adult outcomes for inner city boys. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 795-799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.008 (pdf)
  2. Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Dziurzynski, L., Kern, M. L., Blanco, E., Kosinski, M., … & Ungar, L. H. (2013). Toward personality insights from language exploration in social media. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series. Stanford, CA. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SSS/SSS13/paper/view/5764/5915   
  3. Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Dziurzynski, L., Kern, M. L., Blanco, E., Ramones, S., Seligman, M. E. P., & Ungar, L. H. (2013). Choosing the right words: Characterizing and reducing error of the word count approach. In Proceedings of *SEM-2013: Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics.  http://aclweb.org/anthology/S/S13/S13-1042.pdf  
  4. Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Dziurzynski, L., Lucas, R. E., Agrawal, M., … & Ungar, L. H. (2013). Characterizing geographic variation in well-being using tweets. In Proceedings of the Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). Boston, MA. www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/view/6138/6398  
  5. Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J. C., Kern, M. L., Dziurzynski, L., Ramones, S. M., Agrawal, M., … & Ungar, L. H. (2013). Personality, gender, and age in the language of social media: The open-vocabulary approach. PLOS ONE, 8, e73791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073791   

2007-2011
  1. Duckworth, A. L., & Kern, M. L. (2011). A meta-analysis of the convergent validity for self-control measure. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 259-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.004 (pdf) (appendix1) (appendix2)
  2. Forgeard, M. J. C., Jayawickreme, E., Kern, M. L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Doing the right thing: Measuring well-being for public policy. International Journal of Well-Being, 1, 79-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v1i1.15   
  3. Friedman, H. S., Kern, M. L., & Reynolds, C. A. (2010). Personality and health, subjective well-being, and longevity as adults age. Journal of Personality, 78, 179-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00613.x (pdf)  
  4. Friedman, H. S., Martin, L. R., Tucker, J. S., Criqui, M. H., Kern, M. L., & Reynolds, C. A. (2008). Stability of physical activity across the lifespan. Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 1092-1104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105308095963   
  5. Howell, R., Kern, M.L. & Lyubomirsky, S. (2007). Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes. Health Psychology Review, 1, 83-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17437190701492486​​ (pdf)
  6. Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2008). Do conscientious individuals live longer? A quantitative review. Health Psychology, 27, 505-512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.27.5.505  (pdf)
  7. Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2009). Early educational milestones as predictors of lifelong academic achievement, midlife adjustment, and longevity. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 419-430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2008.12.025   (pdf)Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2011). Personality and pathways of influence on physical health. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5 76-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00331.x (pdf)
  8. Kern, M. L., Friedman, H. S., Martin, L. R., Reynolds, C. A., & Luong, G. (2009). Personality, career success, and longevity: A lifespan analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 154-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12160-009-9095-6
  9. Kern, M. L., Reynolds, C. A., & Friedman, H. S. (2010). Predictors of physical activity patterns across adulthood: A growth curve analysis. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1058-1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210374834  
  10. Reid, P. T., Cole, E., & Kern, M. L. (2011). Wives of college and university presidents: Identity, privacy, and relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35, 547-557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684311417402    

Book Chapters

  1. Ignjatovic, C., Kern, M. L., Oades, L. G. (2022). Values-Flow in Contextual Psychotherapy: The ‘What’, ‘Why’, and ‘How’ of Sustainable Values-Based Behaviour. In Happiness and Wellness– Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives. InTech Open. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.106594 (pdf)
  2. Allen, K. A., Boyle, C., Kern, M. L., Wong, D., & Cahey, A. (2022). Helping those that don’t fit: Impacts, causes, and solutions for students who don’t feel like they belong at school. In A. Holliman & K. Sheehy (Eds.), Overcoming adversity in education (pp. 114-125). Routledge. ISBN 9781032017785 
  3. Taylor, R. & Kern, M.L. (2021) Women as community leaders and their impact as global change makers. https://www.igi-global.com/book/women-community-leaders-their-impact/282683
  4. Kern, P. (in press). Look after yourself. In P. Williams & van Nieuwerburgh (Eds.), From survive to thrive: A field guide to feeling well and doing well at university. Sage Publishing. (pdf)
  5. Kern, M. L.  (in press). Conscientiousness. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief) & C. S. Nave (Vol. Ed.),The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences: Vol. I. Models and theories.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 
  6. Kern, M. L. (in press, 2021). PERMAH: A Useful Model for Focusing on Wellbeing in Schools. In K. A. Allen, M. J. Furlong, S. M. Suldo, & D. A. Vella-Brodrick (Eds.). The Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools (3rd ed.). Taylor and Francis. (pdf)
  7. Jarden, A., Jarden, R., Chin, T. C., & Kern, M. L. (2021). Assessing wellbeing in school communities. In M. L. Kern & M. L. Wehmeyer (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. Kern, M. L., & Taylor, J. A. (2021). Systems informed positive education.  In M. L. Kern & M. L. Wehmeyer (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf)
  9. Kern, M. L. & Wehmeyer, M. L. (2021). Conclusion. In M. L. Kern & M. L. Wehmeyer (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
  10. Kern, M. L. & Wehmeyer, M. L. (2021). Introduction and overview. In M. L. Kern & M. L. Wehmeyer (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Positive Education. Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf)
  11. Kern, M. L., & Sun, J. (in press). Thriving in life. In L. Cohen (Ed.), the Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology.​
  12. Smillie, L., Kern, M. L., & Uljarevic, M. (in press). Extraversion: Description, development, and mechanisms. In McAdams, D. P., Shiner, R. L., & Tackett, J. L. (2018). Handbook of Personality Development. Guilford Press.
  13. Kern, M. L. (2017). Perseverance, achievement, and positive education. In M. A. White, G. R. Slemp, & S. Murray (Eds.), Future Directions in Well-being: Education, Organizations, and Policy (pp. 75-80). Switzerland: Springer Nature. (pdf)
  14. Kern, M. L., Park, N., Peterson, C., & Romer, D. (2017). The positive perspective on youth development. In Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Disorders: What we know and what we don’t know (v. 2). In D. Romer & the Commission Chairs of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Sunnylands Trust (pp. 543-567). New York: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
  15. Slemp, G. R., Chin, T. C., Kern, M. L., Siokou, C., Loton, D., Oades, L. G., Vella-Brodrick, D. A., & Waters, L. (2017). Positive education in Australia: Practice, measurement, and future directions. In E. Fryenberg, A. J. Martin, & R. J. Collie (Eds.), Social and emotional learning in Australia and the Asia Pacific (pp. 101-122). Singapore: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3394-0_6 (pdf)
  16. Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2016). Health Psychology. In T. A. Widiger (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Five Factor Model. http:dx.doi/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.2 (pdf)
  17. Kern, M. L. (2016). Exercise, physical activity, and mental health. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (2nd Ed., Vol 2, pp. 175-180). Waltham, MA: Academic Press. (pdf)
  18. Kern, M. L., Adler, A., Waters, L. E., & White, M. A. (2015). Measuring whole school well-being in students and staff. In M. White & S. Murray (Eds.), Evidence-based approaches in positive education: Implementing a strategic framework for well-being in schools. (pp. 65-91). Spring Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9667-5_4 
  19. Friedman, H. S. & Kern, M. L. (2012). Psychological predictors of heart disease. In V. S. Ramachandran (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of human behavior, 2nd Ed. San Diego, CA: Elsevier. (pdf)
  20. Kern, M. L. & Friedman, H. S. (2011). Personality and differences in health and longevity. T. Chamorro-Premuzic, S. von Stumm, & A. Furnham (Eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of individual differences (pp. 461-490). Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing. (pdf)
  21. Friedman, H. S., & Kern, M. L. (2010). Personality: Contributions to health psychology. In J. M. Suls, K. W. Davidson, & R. M. Kaplan (Eds.), Handbook of health psychology and behavioral medicine (pp. 102-119). New York: Guildford Press. (pdf)
  22. Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2010). Why do some people thrive while others succumb to disease and stagnation? Personality, social relations, and resilience. In P. S. Fry & C. L. M. Keyes (Eds.), Frontiers of Resilient Aging (pp. 162-184). New York: Cambridge University Press. (pdf)

Other Publications

  1. Kern, P. L. (2022, October). I was an expert advisor on the documentary ‘How to Thrive’. Here’s what happened after this wellbeing experiment. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/i-was-an-expert-advisor-on-the-documentary-how-to-thrive-heres-what-happened-after-this-wellbeing-experiment-191500
  2. Kern, P. L. (2022, May). Why do we get teary when we’re tired or sick? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-get-teary-when-were-tired-or-sick-180661
  3. Zhang, Y., Bayasgalan, M. Mahmic, S., Janson, A. & Kern, M.L. (2022) IIMHL & MHN COVID-19 innovations case study series: Supporting the wellbeing of parents raising children with disabilities and developmental delays: Peer support goes online through the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.nhsconfed.org/case-studies/supporting-wellbeing-parents-raising-children-disabilities-and-developmental-delays
  4. Kern, M. L., & Benecchi, S. D. (2019). Intersections of positive psychology and Christianity [White paper].  (pdf)
  5. Kern, P. L., Rizoiu, M.-A., & McCarthy, P. X. (2019, December). Robot career advisor: AI may soon be able to analyse your tweets to match you to a job. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/robot-career-advisor-ai-may-soon-be-able-to-analyse-your-tweets-to-match-you-to-a-job-128777
  6. Kern, P. L. (2019, October). The Portal review: can meditation change the world? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-portal-review-can-meditation-change-the-world-123513
  7. Allen, K., Kern, P., Waters, L., & Vella-Brodrick, D. (2018, July). Why don’t Australian school kids feel a sense of belonging? Pursuit. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-don-t-australian-school-kids-feel-a-sense-of-belonging
  8. Allen, K., & Kern, P. (2018, June). School vision and mission statements should not be dismissed as empty words. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/school-vision-and-mission-statements-should-not-be-dismissed-as-empty-words-97375
  9. Eichstaedt, J. C., Schwartz, H. A., Giorgi, S., Kern, M. L., Park, G., Sap, M., …, & Ungar, L. H. (2018, March). More evidence that Twitter language predicts heart disease: A response and replication. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://psyarxiv.com/p75ku
  10. Kern, P. (2017, September). Promises and pitfalls of social media. Inspire Magazine, 6. http://researchaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/INSPIRE-Issue-6.pdf
  11. Kern, P. (2017, May). Twitter’s plan to help young people not get too overwhelmed by bad news doesn’t go far enough. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/twitters-plan-to-help-young-people-not-get-too-overwhelmed-by-bad-news-doesnt-go-far-enough-76990
  12. Kern, P. (2017, May). Explainer: What is positive psychology and how can you use it for yourself? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-positive-psychology-and-how-can-you-use-it-for-yourself-75635
  13. Kern, M. L., & Barry Kaufman, S. (2017). Positive education research. In The state of positive education: A review of history, policy, practice, and research (pp. 29-34). Dubai, UAE: International Positive Education Network. https://worldgovernmentsummit.org/api/publications/document/8f647dc4-e97c-6578-b2f8-ff0000a7ddb6
  14. ​White, M. A., & Kern, M. L. (2017) St Peter’s College, Adelaide, Australia [case study]. In The state of positive education: A review of history, policy, practice, and research (pp. 17-22). Dubai, UAE: International Positive Education Network. https://worldgovernmentsummit.org/api/publications/document/8f647dc4-e97c-6578-b2f8-ff0000a7ddb6
  15. Kern, P. (2016, December). How to be a healthy user of social media. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-to-be-a-healthy-user-of-social-media-70211
  16. ​Kern, P. (2016). Is social media good for you? Pursuit. The University of Melbourne. Available from https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-social-media-good-for-you
  17. Kern, P. (2016, November). A holistic approach to student wellbeing. Psychlopaedia, Australian Psychological Society. https://psychlopaedia.org/learning-and-development/holistic-approach-student-wellbeing/  
  18. Kern, P. (2016). How gender shapes our Facebook chats. Pursuit. The University of Melbourne. Available from https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-gender-shapes-our-facebook-chats
  19. Warner, K., & Kern, M. L. (2014). A city of wellbeing: The what, why, & how of measuring community wellbeing. (White paper). City of Santa Monica Office of Wellbeing. Available from www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Wellbeing/wbp-Research-whitepaper-FINAL.pdf
  20. Benson, L., & Kern, M. L. (2013, June). Changing the face of health care: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s positive health project. International Positive Psychology Association Newsletter, 6(1). (pdf)
  21. Kern, M. L. (2010). Physical activity, personality, social contexts, and health: Interactions within a lifespan perspective. (Doctoral dissertation). Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 3412788). (pdf)

Published Abstracts

  1. Kern, M. L., Friedman, H. S., Hampson, S. E., & Goldberg, L. R. (November, 2012). Using integrative data analysis to test complex lifespan personality and health models. The Gerontologist, 52(suppl 1), 436.
  2. Kern M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2011). Leisure time physical activity and mortality risk: Patterns matter [Abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 41 (Suppl. 1), S110.
  3. Vie, L. L., Reynolds, C. A., Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2010). Partner personality and health: A growth curve analysis. The Gerontologist, 50(suppl 1), 515.
  4. Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2009). Personality: Direct and indirect influences on healthy aging and longevity [Abstract]. The Gerontologist, 49(suppl 2), 205.
  5. Martin, L. R., Clark, K. M., Friedman, H. S., & Kern, M. L. (2009). Occupation-personality congruence and mortality risk in aging adults [Abstract]. The Gerontologist, 49(suppl 2), 205.
  6. Kern M. L., Friedman, H. S., & Reynolds, C. A. (2009). Physical activity, personality, and health: Interactive effects within a lifespan perspective [Abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37 (Suppl. 1), S222.
  7. Vie, L. L., Kern, M. L., Reynolds, C. A., & Friedman, H. S. (2009). Marital happiness as a predictor of healthy aging. Program No. 840-5. 2009 Abstract Viewer. The Gerontological Society of America.
  8. Kern M. L., Reynolds C. A., Friedman, H. S., Martin, L. R. (2008). Patterns of physical activity and mortality risk: Combining latent growth and survival analyses [Abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35 (Suppl. 1), S185.
  9. Kern, M. L., Reynolds, C. A., & Friedman, H. S. (2007). Mid-Life adult activity patterns and older age health and longevity. The Gerontologist, 47(Special Issue II), 660.
  10. Reynolds, C. A., McArdle, J. J., Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2007, November). The effect of initial selection on childhood IQ on generalizeability of the Terman Life Cycle Study [Abstract]. The Gerontologist, 47(Special Issue II), 815.