OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Happiness Studies is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample: The Role of Positive Core Beliefs About the World and Others	95
Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Future Studies	90
Loneliness and Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Associations with Personality and Emotion Regulation	85
Emotional Well-Being Under Conditions of Lockdown: An Experience Sampling Study in Austria During the COVID-19 Pandemic	66
Do Psychological Needs Play a Role in Times of Uncertainty? Associations with Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	56
How Does Trait Gratitude Relate to Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents? The Mediating Role of Resilience and Social Support	52
The Different Roles of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities in Predicting Functioning and Well-Being Experiences	45
Factors Affecting Life Satisfaction of Older Adults in Asia: A Systematic Review	42
Financial Well-Being and Its Relationship with Subjective and Psychological Well-Being Among Emerging Adults: Testing the Moderating Effect of Individual Differences	39
Sport Participation and Happiness Among Older Adults: A Mediating Role of Social Capital	39
Does Mobile Internet Use Affect the Subjective Well-being of Older Chinese Adults? An Instrumental Variable Quantile Analysis	37
How and Why Social Media Affect Subjective Well-Being: Multi-Site Use and Social Comparison as Predictors of Change Across Time	35
“Andrà tutto bene”: Associations Between Character Strengths, Psychological Distress and Self-efficacy During Covid-19 Lockdown	34
Study Burnout and Engagement During COVID-19 Among University Students: The Role of Demands, Resources, and Psychological Needs	33
Why Do People with High Dispositional Gratitude Tend to Experience High Life Satisfaction? A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	32
Promoting Gratitude as a Resource for Sustainable Mental Health: Results of a 3-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial up to 6 Months Follow-up	32
Longitudinal Evidence for Reciprocal Effects Between Life Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction	31
How Adverse Childhood Experiences Relate to Subjective Wellbeing in College Students: The Role of Resilience and Depression	28
Is Grittiness Next to Happiness? Examining the Association of Triarchic Model of Grit Dimensions with Well-Being Outcomes	27
Age and Gender Differences in Eudaimonic, Hedonic, and Extrinsic Motivations	27
How Communication Technology Fosters Individual and Social Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Support For a Digital Interaction Model	26
Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries	25
Minimal Social Interactions with Strangers Predict Greater Subjective Well-Being	24
On Emotion Regulation Strategies and Well-Being: The Role of Passion	23
Passion in University: The Role of the Dualistic Model of Passion in Explaining Students’ Academic Functioning	22

Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data	21
An Integrated Look at Well-Being: Topological Clustering of Combinations and Correlates of Hedonia and Eudaimonia	20
A Multilevel Approach Linking Entrepreneurial Contexts to Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Chinese Entrepreneurs	19
Examining Cross-Cultural Relationships Between Meaning in Life and Psychological Well-Being in Turkey and the United States	19
Are Cognitive, Affective, and Eudaimonic Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being Differently Related to Consumption? Evidence from Japan	19
Does Gratitude Promote Resilience During a Pandemic? An Examination of Mental Health and Positivity at the Onset of COVID-19	18
Well-Being Reduces COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China	18
Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition	18
On the Role of Passion in Second Language Learning and Flourishing	18
Well-Being and Pluralism	17
Exploring the Heterogeneity and Trajectories of Positive Functioning Variables, Emotional Distress, and Post-traumatic Growth During Strict Confinement Due to COVID-19	16
College as a Growth Opportunity: Assessing Personal Growth Initiative and Self-determination Theory	16
Problem Behavior and Life Satisfaction in Early Adolescence: Longitudinal Findings in a Chinese Context	16
Elementary School Students’ Subjective Well-Being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	16
Changes in Subjective Well-Being Over Time: Economic and Social Resources do Matter	16
Developing a Quadripartite Existential Meaning Scale and Exploring the Internal Structure of Meaning in Life	16
Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism: The Impact of a Two-Week Intervention on Well-Being During COVID-19	15
Six-Week Online Multi-component Positive Psychology Intervention Improves Subjective Wellbeing in Young Adults	15
The Role of Optimism in Adolescent Mental Health: A Systematic Review	15
Happy Soldiers are Highest Performers	15
Positive Solitude Scale: Theoretical Background, Development and Validation	14
Just-World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect	14
Are Gritty People Happier than Others?: Evidence from the United States and South Korea	14
A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction	14
Daily Positive Support and Perceived Stress During COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Daily Gratitude Within Couples	13
Are Veterans Happy? Long-term Military Service and the Life Satisfaction of Elderly Individuals in China	13
Coping Strategies and Subjective Well-being: Context Matters	13
The Role of Income and Social Capital for Europeans’ Well-Being During the 2008 Economic Crisis	13
Examining the Associations of Trait Self-control with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being	13
Beyond the U-Shape: Mapping the Functional Form Between Age and Life Satisfaction for 81 Countries Utilizing a Cluster Procedure	13
The Pursuit of Resilience: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Resilience-Promoting Interventions	13
Hope Mediates the Relation between Income and Subjective Well-Being	12
A Qualitative Cross-Cultural Comparison of Well-Being Constructs: the Meaning of Happiness, Life Satisfaction, and Social Support for German and Chinese Students	12
A Brief Gratitude Writing Intervention Decreased Stress and Negative Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Does Life Satisfaction Vary with Time and Income? Investigating the Relationship Among Free Time, Income, and Life Satisfaction	12
On the Development of Meaning in Life Among College Freshmen: Social Relationship Antecedents and Adjustment Consequences	12
A Meta-analytic Review of the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Growth, Anxiety, and Depression	11
On the Role of Personal Values and Philosophy of Life in Happiness Technology	11
Vicarious Experiences of Major Discrimination and the Life Satisfaction of Black and White Adults from a Community Sample	11
Hartz and Minds: Happiness Effects of Reforming an Employment Agency	11
The Mindful Hedonist? Relationships between Well-Being Orientations, Mindfulness and Well-Being Experiences	11
Housing prices and the subjective well-being of migrant workers: evidence from China	11
An Extended Replication Study of the Well-Being Intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI)	11
Improving Interdisciplinary Research in Well-Being—A Review with Further Comments of Michael Bishop’s The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being	11
Parental Flow and Positive Emotions: Optimal Experiences in Parent–Child Interactions and Parents’ Well-Being	11
The Role of ‘Peace of Mind’ and ‘Meaningfulness’ as Psychological Concepts in Explaining Subjective Well-being	11
The Burden of Social Connectedness: Do Escalating Gift Expenditures Make You Happy?	11
Dyadic Associations Between Grandparent–Child Relationship Quality and Well-Being in Chinese Left-Behind Families: Mediating Role of Resilience	11
Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures	11
Modern Economic Growth, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Arctic Alaska	10

Using a Technology-Based Meaning and Purpose Intervention to Improve Well-being: A Randomised Controlled Study	10
Effects of Social Movement Participation on Political Efficacy and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study of Civically Engaged Youth	10
Well-Being and Physical Health: A Mediation Analysis	10
Dispositional Mindfulness and Serenity: Their Unique Relations with Stress and Mental Well-being	10
Does Dispositional Envy Make You Flourish More (or Less) in Life? An Examination of Its Longitudinal Impact and Mediating Mechanisms Among Adolescents and Young Adults	10
Income Status and Life Satisfaction	10
A Cross-Lagged Panel Study Examining the Reciprocal Relationships Between Positive Emotions, Meaning, Strengths use and Study Engagement in Primary School Students	10
The Benefits of Giving as well as Receiving Need Support in Human–Pet Relations	10
Social Needs and Happiness: A Life Course Perspective	10
Career Adaptability, Hope, and Life Satisfaction: an Analysis of Adults with and Without Substance Use Disorder	10
Is it me or you? An Actor-partner Examination of the Relationship between Partners’ Character Strengths and Marital Quality	9
Effectiveness of the Fun For Wellness Online Behavioral Intervention to Promote Subjective Well-Being in Adults with Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial	9
Empowering Well-Being: Validation of a Locus of Control Scale Specific to Well-Being	9
Quiet Ego and Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness	9
Dispositional Gratitude as an Underlying Psychological Process Between Materialism and the Satisfaction and Frustration of Basic Psychological Needs: A Longitudinal Mediational Analysis	9
Adjustment Factors of Attachment, Hope, and Motivation in Emerging Adult Well-Being	9
How Healthy and Unhealthy Values Predict Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: Dissecting Value-Related Beliefs and Behaviours	9
Flow Experiences Across Adulthood: Preliminary Findings on the Continuity Hypothesis	9
The Authentic Inner Compass as a Well-Being Resource: Predictive Effects on Vitality, and Relations with Self-Esteem, Depression and Behavioral Self-realization	9
Can Money Buy Happiness? Subjective Wellbeing and Its Relationship with Income, Relative Income, Monetary and Non-monetary Poverty in Bangladesh	9
Acting on Values: A Novel Intervention Enhancing Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being	9
Who is Happier in Japan, a Housewife or Working Wife?	9
Daily Stressor-Related Negative Mood and its Associations with Flourishing and Daily Curiosity	9
Conceptions of Happiness Matter: Relationships between Fear and Fragility of Happiness and Mental and Physical Wellbeing	9
Materialism and the Experience of Flow	9
Pursuing Pleasure or Meaning: A Cross-Lagged Analysis of Happiness Motives and Well-being in Adolescents	9
Effects of the Gratitude Letter and Positive Attention Bias Modification on Attentional Deployment and Emotional States	9
Grit Across Nations: The Cross-National Equivalence of the Grit-O Scale	9
How Would You Describe a Mentally Healthy Person? A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study of Caregivers of Orphans and Separated Children	9
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Well-Being Across Age: A Cross-Sectional General Population Study among 1709 Dutch Speaking Adults	9
Kindness as an Intervention for Student Social Interaction Anxiety, Resilience, Affect, and Mood: The KISS of Kindness Study II	8
The Flow Observational Grid: an Observation-Based Solution to Assess Flow States	8
Well-Being Before and After Pregnancy Termination: The Consequences of Abortion and Miscarriage on Satisfaction With Various Domains of Life	8
Mediators of Differences Between Employed and Unemployed in Life Satisfaction and Emotional Well-being	8
The Roles of Social Media Use and Friendship Quality in Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems and Well-being	8
Unhappy and Happy Obesity: A Comparative Study on the United States and China	8
Differentiating Optimists from Pessimists in the Prediction of Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, and Life Satisfaction: A Latent Profile Analysis	8
A New Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Well-Being: A Randomized Control Trial of Mindfulness-Based Positive Psychology	8
Giving Thanks is Associated with Lower PTSD Severity: A Meta-Analytic Review	8
Moral Self-Appraisals Explain Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Behavior	8
The Bigger the Better? Business Size and Small-Business Owners’ Subjective Well-Being	8
Personality, Attachment, and Well-Being in Adolescents: The Independent Effect of Attachment After Controlling for Personality	8
The Effect of Consumer Confidence and Subjective Well-being on Consumers’ Spending Behavior	8
Living Arrangements and Subjective Well-being of the Elderly in China and Japan	8
Can Environmental Protection Behavior Enhance Farmers' Subjective Well-Being?	8
Self-Compassion or Self-Criticism? Predicting Women Athletes’ Psychological Flourishing in Sport in Canada	8
Parental Autonomy Granting and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Self-Efficacy and Future Orientation	8
Coming Out as LGBTQ +: The Role Strength-Based Parenting on Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth	8