Journal of Happiness and Health

Arslan, G., & Coşkun, M. (2023). School belongingness in academically at-risk adolescents: Addressing psychosocial functioning and psychological well-being. Journal of Happiness and Health, 3(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.47602/joh ah.v3i1.9

Arslan, G., & Şahin, D. S. (2025). Perceived stress and death-related distress in older adults: Exploring the role of social support and emotional loneliness. Death Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/0 7481187.2025.2460914.

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*Dong, X., Chen, R., Chang, E. S., & Simon, M. (2014). The prevalence of suicide attempts among community-dwelling US Chinese older adults – Findings from the PINE study. Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 7(1), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.1108/eihsc-10-2013-0030

*Dong, X., Chen, R., Wu, B., Zhang, N. J., Mui, A. C. Y. S., & Chi, I. (2015). Association between elder mistreatment and suicidal ideation among community-dwelling Chinese older adults in the USA. Gerontology, 62(1), 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1159/0 00437420

*Dong, X., Xu, Y., & Ding, D. (2017). Elder self-neglect and suicidal ideation in an U.S. Chinese aging population: Findings from the PINE study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 72(suppl_1), S76–S81. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glw229

*Izquierdo, A., Ong, M., Pulido, E., Wells, K. B., Berkman, M., Linski, B., Sauer, V., & Miranda, J. (2018). Community partners in care: 6- and 12-month outcomes of community engagement versus technical assistance to implement depression collaborative care among depressed older adults. Ethnicity & Disease, 28(Supp), 339–348. https://doi.org/10.18 865/ed.28.s2.339

*Machizawa, S., & Lau, D. T. (2010). Psychological needs of Japanese American elders: Implications for culturally competent interventions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 25(2), 183–197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-010-9117-7

*Nicolaidis, C., Timmons, V., Thomas, M. J., Waters, A. S., Wahab, S., Mejia, A., & Mitchell, S. R. (2010). “You don’t go tell White people nothing”: African American women’s perspectives on the influence of violence and race on depression and depression care. American Journal of Public Health, 100(8), 1470–1476. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2009.161950

*Reinschmidt, K. M., Attakai, A., Khan, C. B., Whitewater, S., & Teufel-Shone, N. (2016). Shaping a stories of resilience model from urban American Indian elders’ narratives of historical trauma and resilience. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 23(4), 63–85. https://doi.org/10.58 20/aian.2304.2016.63

*Rorai, V. O., Perry, T. E., Whitney, S. E., Gianfermi, H. C., Mitchell, J. A., Key, K. D., Lichtenberg, P. A., Taylor, R. J., Ilardo, J. L., Knurek, S. M., & Conyers, C. S. (2021). “It takes some empathy, sympathy, and listening”: Telephone outreach to older Detroiters in a pandemic as a modality to gain an understanding of challenges and resiliency. Journal of Urban Health, 98(S2), 91–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00564-9

*Salma, J., & Salami, B. (2019). “Growing old is not for the weak of heart”: Social isolation and loneliness in Muslim immigrant older adults in Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(2), 615–623. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12894

*Thames, A. D., Hammond, A., Nunez, R. A., Mahmood, Z., Jones, F., Carter, S. L., Bilder, R. M., Fisher, S., Bivens-Davis, T., & Jones, L. (2018). Sexual health behavior and mental health among older African American women: The Sistahs, Sexuality, and Mental Health Well-Being project. Journal of Women’s Health, 27(9), 1177–1185. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2017.67 77

*Uzun, Kıvanç. (2024). Hope and uncertainty among Turkish adults: Pathways to subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness and Health, 4(2), 81–92. https://doi.org/10.47602/johah.v4i2.86

*Waddell, C. M., Robinson, R., & Crawford, A. (2017). Decolonizing approaches to Inuit community wellness: Conversations with elders in a Nunavut community. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 36(1), 1–13. https://do i.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2017-001

*Wyman, M. F., Jonaitis, E. M., Ward, E. C., Zuelsdorff, M., & Gleason, C. E. (2019). Depressive role impairment and subthreshold depression in older Black and White women: Race differences in the clinical significance criterion. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(3), 393–405. https://doi.org/10.1017/s104 1610219001133

Agarwal, V., Frank, R. & Zilkha, C. (2024) The mental health landscape of older adults in the U.S. Center on Health Policy at Brookings. Retrieved January 25, 2025 https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/202 4/06/20240702_CHP_Frank_OlderAdultsMH.pdf

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Armiya’u, A. Y., Yıldırım, M., Muhammad, A., Tanhan, A., & Young, J. S. (2024). Mental Health Facilitators and Barriers during Covid-19 in Nigeria. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 59(2), 354-376. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221 111354

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Carpenter, B. D., Gatz, M., & Smyer, M. A. (2022). Mental health and aging in the 2020s. American Psychologist, 77(4), 538–550. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000873

Chan, J. K. N., Correll, C., Sau Man Wong, C., Sai Ting Chu, R., Shi Cheng Fung, V., Hou Sem Wong, G., Hiu Ching Lei, J., & Chung Chang, W. (2023). Life expectancy and years of potential life lost in people with mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. eClinicalMedicine, 65(102294)

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Dari, T., Fox, C., Laux, J. M., & Gonzalez, S. S. (2023). The development and validation of the Community-Based Participatory Research Knowledge Self-Assessment Scale (CBPR-KSAS): A Rasch analysis. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 56(1), 64–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2022.2034478

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Delman, J., Progovac, A. M., Flomenhoft, T., Delman, D., Chambers, V., & Cook, B. L. (2019). Barriers and facilitators to community-based participatory care research for racial and ethnic minorities. Health Affairs, 38(3), 391–398. https://doi. org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05040

Fullen, M. C., Gorby, S., Chan, C. D., Dobmeier, R. A., & Jordan, J. (2019). The current state of gerontological counseling research: A 26‐year content analysis. Journal of Counseling & Development, 97(4), 387–397. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12 287

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Lenz, A.S. & Lemberger‐Truelove, M.E. (2023). The social determinants of mental health and professional counseling: A call to action, Journal of Counseling & Development, 10.1002/jcad.12489

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Ünsal Seydooğulları, S. (2023). University students’ wellbeing and mental health during COVID-19: An online photovoice approach. Journal of Happiness and Health, 3(2), 139–156. https://doi.org/10.47602/johah.v3i2.60

Vyas, C. M., Donneyong, M., Mischoulon, D., Chang, G., Gibson, H., Cook, N. R., Manson, J. E., Reynolds, C. F., & Okereke, O. I. (2020). Association of race and ethnicity with Late-Life Depression severity, symptom burden, and care. JAMA Network Open, 3(3), e201606. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworko pen.2020.1606

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Note: All articles marked with an asterisk (*) were included in the final scoping review.