Minimalism provides various wellbeing benefits, including autonomy, competence, mental space, awareness, and positive emotions, with potential implications for various fields.

Towards a Theory of Minimalism and Wellbeing

Minimalism, a sustainable lifestyle characterized by clutter removal, cautious shopping, longevity, and self-sufficiency, enhances flourishing and alleviates depression.

Minimalism as a sustainable lifestyle: Its behavioral representations and contributions to emotional well-being

Home self-extension, particularly subjective clutter, significantly predicts wellbeing in adults.

Home and the extended-self: Exploring associations between clutter and wellbeing

Decluttering one's lifestyle through self-control, including physical activities and psychological strategies, can improve overall health and quality of life.

De-Cluttering of Lifestyle Through Self-Control: The Most Needed Track to Health Attainment

The workshop on decluttering and organizing effectively reduces clutter and improves quality of life for teens and middle-aged adults with difficulty organizing.

Effectiveness of a ‘Workshop on Decluttering and Organising’ programme for teens and middle-aged adults with difficulty decluttering: a study protocol of an open-label, randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial in Japan

Decluttering living environments can help older adults feel accomplished and in control, reducing stress and life dissatisfaction.

Tidying Up: Good for the Aging Brain.

Consumer minimalism is characterized by few possessions, sparse aesthetics, and mindfully curated consumption, with the Minimalist Consumer Scale effectively measuring these dimensions.

Consumer Minimalism

Decluttering can potentially start a shift towards sustainable consumption, but more research is needed to determine if it actually leads to more sustainable behavior.

The cultural practice of decluttering as household work and its potentials for sustainable consumption

Decluttering, influenced by emotional well-being, can improve wardrobe maintenance and increase positive feelings, but responsible disposal practices are needed.

The “Joy of Letting Go”: Decluttering and Apparel

UK minimalists practice sustainable (non)consumption by limiting consumption, using up what they own, and focusing on intentional, considered, and ethical consumption, often motivated by ethical or environmental concerns.

Limited, considered and sustainable consumption: The (non)consumption practices of UK minimalists

Minimalism, while promoting self-control and discipline, also intensifies the relationship with objects, leading to the waste of overflowing possessions in Western consumer society.

Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the “Joy” of Waste

Minimalist design can help reduce personal clutter and improve personal identity, but it also highlights the precarious materiality of digital media and its impact on our affective experience.

Minimalist Design in the Age of Archive Fever

Decluttering is a new spiritual discipline tailored to affluent societies, but the essay critiques its focus on an aesthetic self escaping time and the ecological web, advocating for a narrative, ecological self.

The Invention of Clutter and the New Spiritual Discipline of Decluttering

Hawaiian epistemology can help evaluate development and global health efforts by promoting de-cluttering and a decolonized approach to evaluation.

Steps Toward Evaluation as Decluttering: Learnings from Hawaiian Epistemology

Decluttering vlogs on YouTube reveal how digital semiotic capitalism influences people's lived experiences by articulating intersubjective meanings through language, gesture, and visual frames.

The Organised Self and Lifestyle Minimalism: Multimodal Deixis and Point of View in Decluttering Vlogs on YouTube

The Minimalist Program is a collection of four articles by Noam Chomsky, based on his fall term lecture-seminars at MIT from 1986 to 1994, providing a valuable resource for linguistics students.

The Minimalist Program

Decluttering geographical displays with intermediately complex symbol outlines produces the least distraction and fastest search times, with faded colored symbols producing as little distraction as gray symbols.

Evaluating Alternative Symbologies for Decluttering Geographical Displays

Our supervised approach using non-textual and textual features, including length, overlapping, code block type, tags, and comment type, ranked 2nd in the Decluttering Challenge.

Leveraging Textual and Non-Textual Features for Documentation Decluttering

Color and intensity coding in electronic map displays improves visual segregation, but interactivity reduces time savings due to increased information retrieval costs.

ATTENTION FILTERING IN THE DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC MAP DISPLAYS: A COMPARISON OF COLOR-CODING, INTENSITY CODING, AND DECLUTTERING TECHNIQUES

Decluttering cockpit displays using dotting is the most effective method for improving human search performance and pilot situation awareness.

Effects of Visual Complexity Levels and Information Decluttering Methods for Cockpit Displays on Human Search Performance

What are the health benefits of minimalism and decluttering?

These studies suggest that minimalism and decluttering enhance wellbeing, mental space, positive emotions, and alleviate depression.