OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Happiness Studies is 25. 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
Beyond Dispositional Optimism and Pessimism: Does the Tripartite Model of Meaning in Life Matter in Predicting Future Well-Being in Adults?	74
Revisiting the Factor Structure of the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF): Evidence for a General Wellbeing Factor?	52
Sociodemographic Disparities in Positive Life Experiences	49
Relative Effects on Life Satisfaction Revisited: Social Comparison is Only Half the Story	43
“Humor A B C” Program: Specific Strength Intervention in Facilitating the Positive Development of Left-Behind Children	37
Paradoxical Impacts of Social Relationship on Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic	37
Informal Caregivers and Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands	35
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest Upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction	33
The Longitudinal Effect of Pre-war Investments in Hedonic Capital on Wartime Well-Being	33
When Humble is Humbled: The Moderating Role of Leader Underestimation in the Dual Relationship Between Employee Humility and Well-Being	32
Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?	32
The Paradox of Wealthy Nations’ Low Adolescent Life Satisfaction	32
Why Do We Feel so Time Poor? A Daily Diary Study of Time Poverty and Well-Being	32
Does Inequality Shape Human Character? Cross-Cultural Associations between Character Strengths and the Gini Index in 68 Countries	30
Temperament in Middle Childhood: Relation to Childhood Happiness and to Happiness and Health Entering Middle Adulthood	30
State Contexts, Job Insecurity, and Subjective Well-being in the Time of COVID-19	30
Development of a Holistic Mental Health Item Bank for Use in the General Population	29
Energy Loss After Daily Role Stress and Work Incivility: Caring for Oneself with Emotional Wellness	29
How to Flourish during the Menopausal Transition: A Scoping Review on Emotional, Social and Psychological Wellbeing	28
Heterogeneity in Prosocial Motivations and Well-Being: A Latent Profile Analysis	27
Lockdown, Infection, and Expressed Happiness in China	26
Who (Really) Wins with Basic Income: Personality and Values as Predictors of Happiness Trajectories	26
The Impact of Recognizing a Romantic Partner’s Character Strengths on Relationship Satisfaction	25
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Lower-Class Backgrounds on Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Nonessentialist Views of Happiness	25
The Bright Eye and the Gleaming Coat? A Stoic Challenge to Haybron on Wellbeing and the Preconditions of Happiness	25