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Today I want to share the science and psychology behind minimalism -- can minimalism and decluttering make you happier? I did a literature search on the topic, and here are my findings!
Some of the articles I found that are relevant and informed the above content -- also interesting reads:
Lloyd, K., & Pennington, W. (2020). Towards a theory of minimalism and wellbeing. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 1-16.
Roster, C. A., Ferrari, J. R., & Jurkat, M. P. (2016). The dark side of home: Assessing possession ‘clutter’on subjective well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 46, 32-41.
Crum, K. P., & Ferrari, J. R. (2019). Toward an understanding of psychological home and clutter with emerging adults: Relationships over relics. North American Journal of Psychology, 21(1), 45-56.
Ferrari, J. R., Roster, C. A., Crum, K. P., & Pardo, M. A. (2018). Procrastinators and Clutter: An Ecological View of Living with Excessive “Stuff”. Current Psychology, 37(2), 441-444.
Crum, K. P., & Ferrari, J. R. (2019). Psychological home, clutter, and place attachment predicting life satisfaction among women of color: Home is beyond physical space. Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences, 1(4), 87-96.
Ferrari, J. R., & Roster, C. A. (2018). Delaying disposing: examining the relationship between procrastination and clutter across generations. Current Psychology, 37(2), 426-431.
Ferrari, J. R., Swanson, H. L., & Patel, D. A. (2021). The Impact of Office Clutter on Remote Working:" I Can't Work with All This Stuff!". North American Journal of Psychology, 23(1).