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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Constructivist Psychology is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Usefulness of Tattoo Narratives for Expressing Life-Story Constructs	16
How does change occur in psychotherapy? Innovative moments predict stronger therapeutic alliance and functional improvement in a psychodynamic case study	8
On the Relation Between Ego-Development and Life Focus in Adult Development	7
Constructions of Genocide	7
Responses to Killing in State-Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Killers: Pathways of Construing	6
Taking Mental Health Practices into Social Realities. A Trialogue Between Open Dialogue, Recovery Capital and Power Threat Meaning Framework	5
Internal Dialogical Activity and How to Measure It: Internal Dialogical Activity Scale-Revised	5
Assimilation Theory and the Essence of Constructivism	5
Review of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture	5
Narrative Identity through a Constructivist Lens: Introduction	5
The Encounter With the Other: The Space Where Love and Threat Confront Each Other	5
Commentary: Still Becoming – The Ongoing Emergence of Personal Construct Psychology in a Fragmented Century	4
Learning What Leadership Is: A Qualitative Study into the Construction of Implicit Leadership Theories in Children	4
Emerging Meaning-Making: Combining Qualitative Methods in a Study of Women’s Ambivalence Toward Makeup	4
“Take off the Chains and Have Room to Think:” Constructing Identity Within Conflicting Religious and Sexual Frameworks	4
Review of Coaching Psychology: Constructivist Approaches	4
Consolidated Gains, Remaining Challenges: Commentary on “Fostering Creative Dialogues Through Imagery and Body Work in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy”	4
Self-Construction Discrepancies and Their Relationship with Emotional and Physical Pain: A Study Involving Women with Fibromyalgia	4
Role of Reflective Writing: A First Person Inquiry into the Therapist Self	4
REVIEW0014Constructing Meaning across Contexts & Generations	3
Narcissus Beyond the Mirror: A Relational Reading of Constrained Identity	3
Applications of Dialogical Self Theory to Psychotherapy: A State-of-the-Art Review	3
The Dialogical Self and Transgender Identity: How Filipino Transgender Men Navigate Tensions between I-Positions	3
Re-Engaging Tensions within Narrative Threads: Ethical Obligations, Researcher Identity, and Methodological Meaning Making	3
Identification, Similarity and Understanding in Female Same-Sex Couples: A Dyadic Study	3

Correction	3
Dialogues Within: Understanding the Nexus of Self-Talk, Internal Dialogue, and Prayer	3
Constructing Existential Uncertainty in the Cancer Context: A Deductive Thematic Analysis	3
It’s a (Half)Marathon: A Duoethnography of Two Chinese Female Scholars’ Intersectional Precarity in U.S. Academia	3
A Social Constructionist Model of Mental Load: An Interdisciplinary Definition and Framework	3
Radicalized Trump Supporters: Construing, Identity Fusion, and Hypothetical and Actual Extremism	3
The Journey of Self-Identity in Language Learning: Perceptions of Actual and Ideal L2 Selves Among University Foreign Language Students in Russia	2
Social Representation of Global Climate Change: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Emotions	2
Negotiating Normalcy and Patienthood: A Dialectical View of Mental Illness Narratives Among Indian Women with Psychiatric Diagnoses	2
Two Types of Inner Conflicts and Their Trait-Specific Correlates: Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness	2
A Dialogical Self Approach to Self-Innovation and Narrative Continuity in Retirement From Elite Sport	2
Innovative Moments and the Process of Change in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa	2
The Relevance of Conversational Domains to Psychotherapy	2
The Impact of Presenting Borderline Personality Disorder Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework Versus a Psychiatric Diagnosis on Laypersons’ Stigmatizing Attitudes	2
Building Citizenship: An Experiential Awareness Intervention for Mental Health Professionals	2
Self-Talk Functions in Travelers	2
Different Maps, Same Territory: Dialogical Self Theory and its Predecessors	2
Invalidating Environment and Clinical Symptoms: The Moderator Role of Meaning in Life	2
Personal Construct Psychology – Still Going Strong at 70?	2
Nuancing Our Psychological Vocabularies Review of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , by John Koenig, 2021, $16.99 Hardc	2
Clinician Experiences of Identity Change When Implementing or Training in Open Dialogue: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography	2
Narcissus-the-Scientist: An Alternative Methodology to Examine Narcissists’ Self-Identities	2
Internal Dialogues in Grief—an Analysis of Language	2
Loneliness and Parental Separation: A Narrative Approach	2
Dialogues between Distanced and Suffering I-Positions: Emotional Consequences and Self-Compassion	2
From Conflict and Suppression to Reflection: Longitudinal Analysis of Multivoicedness in Clients Experiencing Depression	2
Construing, Depression, and Somatization in Mothers in Taiwan	2
Dialogical Self Theory: Playing with Positions Seriously	2
The Method is the Message: How Qualitative Research Has Advanced Constructivist Values in Psychology	1
Accomplishing the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Notes on Conversation Analysis and Affiliation	1
Personal Construct Therapy for All: A Humanistic Approach to Therapy	1
The Dialectics of Ethnocultural Positioning: A Historical and Intergenerational Perspective on Georgian Identity Construction	1
Resilience and Resistance Among Mental Health Practitioners in Niger: A Decolonial Narrative Inquiry	1
The Polyphonic Narrative Voices within an LGB-Identifying International Sojourner: A Dialogical Self Perspective	1
The Host and the Guest: Navigating Liminal Spaces and Internal Cultural Conflict Through the Lens of Dialogical Self Dynamics	1
A Probabilistic Construct Elicitation Model and Its Implications for Grid Statistics	1
Shifting between Self-States and Narrative Change—Implicit and Explicit Change Processes in Psychotherapy	1
Hidden Dialogicality among Eritrean Refugees in the Civic Integration Process in The Netherlands	1
The Development and Validation of the Meaning Approach Scale: Traditional, Functionalistic and Critical-Intuitive Approaches to Meaning in Life	1
Difficulties in Positioning as Veg*an: Two Distinctions to Examine Positioning	1
Teacher Practices Observation Enriched by Collective Discussion: Teacher Noticing as I-Position	1
The Construction of the Narrative Self: Applying the Internal Multi-Actor Performance Method for Children (IMAP-C) to Help Children Cope with Emotional Distress	1
Understanding the Subjective Experience of Menopause at Work: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model	1
What Can Therapists Learn from Coding Therapy Sessions? Interviewing Clinicians to Explore the Case of Innovative Moments Training	1
Religious Conversion as a Dialogical Transformation of the Self – The Case of Polish Female Converts to Islam	1
Touching Inner Life Stories (TILS): A Structured Three-Stage Narrative-Experiential Method	1
Aging and Forgiveness: What Difficulties do Older Adults Face in the Process of Forgiving?	1
The Experience of Others: A Phenomenological Approach	1
Commonality, Sociality and Understanding in Acquaintance	1
Review of Practicing Therapy as Social Construction	1

Effects of Priming Different I-Positions on Motor Behavior	1
STEM-Related Autobiographical Memories: Narrative Qualities and Associations with Science Identity, Imposter Phenomenon, and Academic Achievement	1
Science Identity as a Pathway to Literacy: Reconceptualizing Science Education Through Dialogical Self Theory	1
Constructing Teacher Self in a Dialogue between Multiple I-Positions: A Case from Teacher Education	1
Indicators of Event Integration in Repertory Grids and Ladders	1
Clients’ Depth of Experiencing and Narrative-Emotion Processes in Psychotherapy	1
Qualitative Exploration of Experiences of Mental Illness and Stigma Management Strategies Among University Students in Lahore	1