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Dr . Aaron Jarden Open Polytechnic of New Zealand www.growhq.com

The GROW Project: Building the world’s largest and most in-depth psychological study. Dr . Aaron Jarden Open Polytechnic of New Zealand www.growhq.com. How can you assess and track 20 million peoples’ wellbeing worldwide?. Facebook? / Google? Research grants? Philanthropy?

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Dr . Aaron Jarden Open Polytechnic of New Zealand www.growhq.com

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  1. The GROW Project: Building the world’s largest and most in-depth psychological study Dr. Aaron Jarden Open Polytechnic of New Zealand www.growhq.com

  2. How can you assess and track 20 million peoples’ wellbeing worldwide? • Facebook? / Google? • Research grants? • Philanthropy? • Partner with government and global projects? • Dictatorship? • Lotto? Start a business and foundation

  3. GROW: History • Beginning in 2010, leading wellbeing scientists began to discuss, design, and forge collaborations with different psychology research laboratories in order to create an ambitious project to continually assess and track 20 million people worldwide using 20 languages. • Rolling launch from 16th April 2012, soft launch till 16th May.

  4. GROW: The Basics • GROW does online wellbeing assessments for four target markets: • Individuals (16+) – get reports • Helping Professionals – get access to reports • Organisations – get group level (N = 15+) reports • Researchers (academic & commercial) – get data (raw & scored) • GROWis based in science, comprehensive, elegant and user-friendly

  5. GROW Chief Scientists • Dr. Aaron Jarden • Associate Professor Todd Kashdan • Dr. Dan Wejeirs • Dr. Jo Mitchell

  6. Modular survey • Comprehensive • Scientific • Online • Real time results • Ideas for change • Privacy protected • 3rd party providers GROW: Overview

  7. Our goal is to have the most scientifically robust and comprehensive wellbeing assessment in the market • Global Life Satisfaction • Happiness • Flourishing • Stress • Meaning in Life • Connectedness • Depression • Life Domains • Temporal Life satisfaction • Anxiety • Emotions Balance • Life Position • Curiosity • Values Alignment • Valued Living (V2) • Competence (V2) • Autonomy (V2) • Grit (perseverance) (V2) • Resilience( V2) • Loneliness (V2) • Hope (V2) • Vitality (V2) • Gratitude (V2) • Self-Acceptance(V3) • Personal Growth (V3) • Enviro Mastery (V3) • Strengths Use (V3) • Time Use (V3) • Work Satisfaction (V3) • Engagement (V3) • Trust & Belonging (V3) • Mindfulness (V3) • Demographics • Physical Health • + & - Events (V3) • Lifestyle factors • 50 Free Text Questions • In all 69 Core Questions, 39 Optional Questions, 27 Demo & Lifestyle. • About 15 minutes per assessment if completed in full GROW: The basics

  8. GROW: Assessment

  9. Our goal is a simple tool to aid understanding and help individuals decide what actions to take Confidential to individuals – can be shared online Individual and group scores over time Simple explanations of why each measure matters Science based recommendations for focus areas Weekly, monthly, 3 monthly, 6 monthly, yearly. GROW: The basics

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  15. Our goal is to point to the best 3rd party tools and programs, and to test and prove their efficacy at raising wellbeing GROW: The basics

  16. GROW: Programs

  17. GROW: Programs

  18. Helping Professionals – managing clients: • Initially assesses their wellbeing before contact. • Tracks changes in their wellbeing and key indicators over time (email reminders). • Proactively identifies relapse (every 6 months). • Organisations: GROW: Working examples

  19. How do you build a multipurpose assessment, that is psychometrically sound, relevant and useful for multiple groups and purposes, brief, yet also flexible over time to capitalise on the best science? • How can you make such a tool widely available? - i.e., what are the current barriers (price, technology), what are the ideal enabling conditions for target users? • Speed of responding vs quality of response, and other psychometric issues? • GROW’s three guides: Technology, Entertainment, & Design. • How can you get respondents / participants motivated to continually come back? • SDT (autonomy, competence, & relatedness) and gaming. • Email reminders. • Sharing reports. • Accountable to person paying and sharing with. GROW: Challenges

  20. Learning from one major precursor project – The International Wellbeing Study. • Stratified international sample. • Real time results. • Getting the scientists involved and on board – Researcher version, the GROW Foundation. • Adhering to best and ethical practice in a new area (online assessment). • Our goal is for GROW to be used by multiple groups in order to create a large international dataset, internationally useful for National Accounts of Wellbeing. GROW: Challenges

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