
Global Research Team
Professor
University of North Carolina–Charlotte, Nursing / Psychology
Zhuo Job Chen is a Professor at the School of Nursing and affiliate faculty in Health Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Oregon and specializes in the psychology of religion, spirituality, and mysticism, with a particular focus on health and wellbeing. He has published over 160 papers on topics including mystical experience, self-compassion, and spiritual wellbeing across multiple countries, and received the Early Career Award from the International Association for the Psychology of Religion in 2023.
A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in suffering across 22 countries
Communications Medicine · 2025
Childhood predictors of belief in life after death across 22 countries
Scientific Reports · 2025 · First author
Childhood predictors of suffering in adulthood across 22 countries
Communications Medicine · 2025
Sociodemographic variations of belief in life after death across 22 Countries
Scientific Reports · 2025 · First author
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025