OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Happiness Studies is 7. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Future Studies	110
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	101
Loneliness and Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Associations with Personality and Emotion Regulation	88
Emotional Well-Being Under Conditions of Lockdown: An Experience Sampling Study in Austria During the COVID-19 Pandemic	73
Do Psychological Needs Play a Role in Times of Uncertainty? Associations with Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	59
Factors Affecting Life Satisfaction of Older Adults in Asia: A Systematic Review	53
Does Mobile Internet Use Affect the Subjective Well-being of Older Chinese Adults? An Instrumental Variable Quantile Analysis	48
Why Do People with High Dispositional Gratitude Tend to Experience High Life Satisfaction? A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	39
Study Burnout and Engagement During COVID-19 Among University Students: The Role of Demands, Resources, and Psychological Needs	38
“Andrà tutto bene”: Associations Between Character Strengths, Psychological Distress and Self-efficacy During Covid-19 Lockdown	35
Age and Gender Differences in Eudaimonic, Hedonic, and Extrinsic Motivations	32
Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries	29
How Communication Technology Fosters Individual and Social Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Support For a Digital Interaction Model	28
An Integrated Look at Well-Being: Topological Clustering of Combinations and Correlates of Hedonia and Eudaimonia	24
Are Cognitive, Affective, and Eudaimonic Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being Differently Related to Consumption? Evidence from Japan	24
Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition	24
Happy Soldiers are Highest Performers	22
A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction	22
Well-Being and Pluralism	21
Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data	21
On the Role of Passion in Second Language Learning and Flourishing	21
Does Gratitude Promote Resilience During a Pandemic? An Examination of Mental Health and Positivity at the Onset of COVID-19	20
Well-Being Reduces COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China	20
Problem Behavior and Life Satisfaction in Early Adolescence: Longitudinal Findings in a Chinese Context	19
Positive Solitude Scale: Theoretical Background, Development and Validation	19

Are Veterans Happy? Long-term Military Service and the Life Satisfaction of Elderly Individuals in China	19
Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism: The Impact of a Two-Week Intervention on Well-Being During COVID-19	18
Elementary School Students’ Subjective Well-Being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	18
Changes in Subjective Well-Being Over Time: Economic and Social Resources do Matter	18
The Role of Optimism in Adolescent Mental Health: A Systematic Review	18
The Pursuit of Resilience: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Resilience-Promoting Interventions	17
On the Development of Meaning in Life Among College Freshmen: Social Relationship Antecedents and Adjustment Consequences	17
Beyond the U-Shape: Mapping the Functional Form Between Age and Life Satisfaction for 81 Countries Utilizing a Cluster Procedure	17
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Well-Being Across Age: A Cross-Sectional General Population Study among 1709 Dutch Speaking Adults	17
Coping Strategies and Subjective Well-being: Context Matters	17
Six-Week Online Multi-component Positive Psychology Intervention Improves Subjective Wellbeing in Young Adults	17
Just-World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect	16
The Role of ‘Peace of Mind’ and ‘Meaningfulness’ as Psychological Concepts in Explaining Subjective Well-being	16
Exploring the Heterogeneity and Trajectories of Positive Functioning Variables, Emotional Distress, and Post-traumatic Growth During Strict Confinement Due to COVID-19	16
Flow Experiences Across Adulthood: Preliminary Findings on the Continuity Hypothesis	16
Does Happiness Increase in Old Age? Longitudinal Evidence from 20 European Countries	15
Examining the Associations of Trait Self-control with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being	15
Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures	15
Vicarious Experiences of Major Discrimination and the Life Satisfaction of Black and White Adults from a Community Sample	14
Daily Positive Support and Perceived Stress During COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Daily Gratitude Within Couples	14
A Meta-analytic Review of the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Growth, Anxiety, and Depression	14
Are Gritty People Happier than Others?: Evidence from the United States and South Korea	14
The Relationship Between Age and Happiness Varies by Income	14
The Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Interventions for Promoting Well-being of Adults Experiencing Depression Compared to Other Active Psychological Treatments: A Systematic Review and Meta-analys	14
Well-Being and Physical Health: A Mediation Analysis	13
A Qualitative Cross-Cultural Comparison of Well-Being Constructs: the Meaning of Happiness, Life Satisfaction, and Social Support for German and Chinese Students	13
Culture, Aging, Self-Continuity, and Life Satisfaction	13
Grit Across Nations: The Cross-National Equivalence of the Grit-O Scale	13
The Burden of Social Connectedness: Do Escalating Gift Expenditures Make You Happy?	13
A Brief Gratitude Writing Intervention Decreased Stress and Negative Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Is it me or you? An Actor-partner Examination of the Relationship between Partners’ Character Strengths and Marital Quality	12
Conceptions of Happiness Matter: Relationships between Fear and Fragility of Happiness and Mental and Physical Wellbeing	12
Psychological Interventions for Well-Being in Healthy Older Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	12
The Paradox of Wealthy Nations’ Low Adolescent Life Satisfaction	12
An Extended Replication Study of the Well-Being Intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI)	12
Parental Flow and Positive Emotions: Optimal Experiences in Parent–Child Interactions and Parents’ Well-Being	12
Living Arrangements and Subjective Well-being of the Elderly in China and Japan	12
Income Status and Life Satisfaction	12
Housing prices and the subjective well-being of migrant workers: evidence from China	12
Acting on Values: A Novel Intervention Enhancing Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being	12
A New Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Well-Being: A Randomized Control Trial of Mindfulness-Based Positive Psychology	12
Career Adaptability, Hope, and Life Satisfaction: an Analysis of Adults with and Without Substance Use Disorder	12
Can Money Buy Happiness? Subjective Wellbeing and Its Relationship with Income, Relative Income, Monetary and Non-monetary Poverty in Bangladesh	11
Effects of the Gratitude Letter and Positive Attention Bias Modification on Attentional Deployment and Emotional States	11
Self-Compassion or Self-Criticism? Predicting Women Athletes’ Psychological Flourishing in Sport in Canada	11
Using a Technology-Based Meaning and Purpose Intervention to Improve Well-being: A Randomised Controlled Study	11
Can Environmental Protection Behavior Enhance Farmers' Subjective Well-Being?	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
Quiet Ego and Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness	11
The Mindful Hedonist? Relationships between Well-Being Orientations, Mindfulness and Well-Being Experiences	11

The Use of the Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Study Financial Well-Being: A Scoping Review and Future Research Agenda	10
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest Upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction	10
Appreciating the Good Things in Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Evaluation of a Gratitude App	10
Differentiating Optimists from Pessimists in the Prediction of Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, and Life Satisfaction: A Latent Profile Analysis	10
The power of strength-oriented feedback enlightened by self-determination theory: a positive technology-based intervention	10
Modern Economic Growth, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Arctic Alaska	10
Self-concept Clarity and Subjective Well-Being: Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Associations	10
Adjustment Factors of Attachment, Hope, and Motivation in Emerging Adult Well-Being	10
How Healthy and Unhealthy Values Predict Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: Dissecting Value-Related Beliefs and Behaviours	10
The Authentic Inner Compass as a Well-Being Resource: Predictive Effects on Vitality, and Relations with Self-Esteem, Depression and Behavioral Self-realization	10
The Effect of Consumer Confidence and Subjective Well-being on Consumers’ Spending Behavior	10
The Roles of Social Media Use and Friendship Quality in Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems and Well-being	9
Torn Between Valences: Mixed Emotions Predict Poorer Psychological Well-Being and Job Burnout	9
The Moderating Role of Self-Sacrificing Disposition and Work Meaningfulness on the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion	9
Who is Happier in Japan, a Housewife or Working Wife?	9
Giving Thanks is Associated with Lower PTSD Severity: A Meta-Analytic Review	9
Well-Being Before and After Pregnancy Termination: The Consequences of Abortion and Miscarriage on Satisfaction With Various Domains of Life	9
Mediators of Differences Between Employed and Unemployed in Life Satisfaction and Emotional Well-being	9
Parental Autonomy Granting and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Self-Efficacy and Future Orientation	9
Empowering Well-Being: Validation of a Locus of Control Scale Specific to Well-Being	9
High Qualities of Relationships with Parents and Teachers Contribute to the Development of Adolescent Life Satisfaction Through Resilience: A Three-Wave Prospective Longitudinal Study	9
Factors Promoting Successful Aging in Turkish Older Adults: Self Compassion, Psychological Resilience, and Attitudes towards Aging	9
Effects of Income and Material Deprivation on Children’s Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Longitudinal Data for England (2009–2018)	9
Pursuing Pleasure or Meaning: A Cross-Lagged Analysis of Happiness Motives and Well-being in Adolescents	9
Take Nothing for Granted: Downward Social Comparison and Counterfactual Thinking Increase Adolescents’ State Gratitude for the Little Things in Life	9
Trajectories of Life Satisfaction Before and After Homeownership: The Role of Housing Affordability Stress	9
Dispositional Gratitude as an Underlying Psychological Process Between Materialism and the Satisfaction and Frustration of Basic Psychological Needs: A Longitudinal Mediational Analysis	9
Daily Stressor-Related Negative Mood and its Associations with Flourishing and Daily Curiosity	9
Don’t Look Up! Individual Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being of Students in Thailand	8
Balanced Time Perspective and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of “Temporal Negative Affect”	8
Moral Self-Appraisals Explain Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Behavior	8
Scale Norming Undermines the Use of Life Satisfaction Scale Data for Welfare Analysis	8
Association Between Connection to Nature and Children’s Happiness in China: Children’s Negative Affectivity and Gender as Moderators	8
Uncovering the Effects of Awe on Meaning in Life	8
Humor Styles, Perceived Threat, Funniness of COVID-19 Memes, and Affective Mood in the Early Stages of COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Job Satisfaction of Recent University Graduates in Economics Sciences: The Role of the Match Between Formal Education and Job Requirements	8
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
A Comparison between the Psychological Benefits of Giving Money vs. Giving Time	8
Nostalgia and Satisfaction with Life: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis	8
Well-being Effects of Natural Disasters: Evidence from China’s Wenchuan Earthquake	7
A Re-evaluation of Candidate Gene Studies for Well-Being in Light of Genome-Wide Evidence	7
Explaining Prosocial Behavior from the Inter-and Within-Individual Perspectives: A Role of Positive Orientation and Positive Affect	7
Family Harmony and Flourishing in Turkey: The Roles of Interdependent Happiness and Harmony in Life	7
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trajectories of Well-Being of Middle-Aged and older Adults: A Multidimensional and Multidirectional Perspective	7
Regret, Self-regulatory Abilities, and Well-Being: Their Intricate Relationships	7
The Importance of the Neighbourhood Environment and Social Capital for Happiness in a Vulnerable District: The Case of the Pajarillos District in Spain	7
When Happiness is Both Joy and Purpose: The Complexity of the Pursuit of Happiness and Well-Being is Related to Actual Well-Being	7
The Effect of Participation in Adult Education on Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives: A Longitudinal Analysis	7
Lifestyle and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Delayed Gratification	7
Longitudinal Relationships Between Personality Traits and Social Well-Being: A Two-Decade Study	7
Flow Support at Work: Examining the Relationship Between Strengths Use and Flow at Work Among School Staff over a Three-Year Period	7
Religious Practice and Life Satisfaction: A Domains-of-Life Approach	7
Time Perspective in the Self-regulatory Mechanism of Meaning in Life	7
Does the Weekly Practice of Recalling and Elaborating Episodes Raise Well-Being in University Students?	7
Employment Disruption and Wellbeing Among Young Adults: A Cross-National Study of Perceived Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown	7
Mediators of the Relationship Between Cognition and Subjective Well-Being	7
The Impact of Age Stereotypes on Well-being: Strategies of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Mediator and Regulatory Focus as Moderator: Findings from a Cross-Sectional and a Longitudinal S	7
Labor Market Policy and Subjective Well-Being During the Great Recession	7
Decision Authority on Positive Mental Health in the Workforce: A Moderated Mediation Model of Social Support, Gender, Income, and Occupation	7
What Can We Learn About the Concept of Meaning in Life from Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease? A Directed Content Analysis Study	7
The Good Life Versus the “Goods Life”: An Investigation of Goal Contents Theory and Employee Subjective Well-Being Across Asian Countries	7
Meaning in Life among New Mothers before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Mothers’ Marital Satisfaction and Perception of the Infant	7