Journal of Positive Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Positive Psychology is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study79
Correction63
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them43
Dealing with uncertain situations43
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk35
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study28
Gratitude, indebtedness, and God: Gratitude and indebtedness to God are more strongly correlated to each other than gratitude and indebtedness to a person or an object26
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach25
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial25
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study24
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination24
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion23
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence23
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude21
Getting humble about intellectual humility21
Humility in inquiry19
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?17
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose17
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage17
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context17
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood16
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate16
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?16
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training15
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure15
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension14
A prospective test of the broaden-and-build model of positive emotions: examining the role of will and ways as temporal mediators of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in adults13
Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude13
Correction12
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience12
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education12
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective12
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning12
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity11
Measuring meaning in life at macro and micro-level: real-world implications and future directions (types, approaches, and number of envisioned and realized meanings in life)11
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework11
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution11
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans11
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan11
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship11
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample11
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic10
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing10
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses10
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample10
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries9
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God9
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program9
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God9
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect9
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence8
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors8
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace8
What makes a teddy bear comforting? A participatory study reveals the prevalence of sensory characteristics and emotional bonds in the perception of comforting teddy bears8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial8
Agency in ancient China8
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach8
Positive psychology is better served by a bivariate rather than bipolar conceptualization of mental health and mental illness: a commentary on Zhao & Tay (2022)7
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others7
Correction7
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning7
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study7
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach7
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study6
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents6
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research6
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility6
Comprehension, purpose, and mattering? A latent profile analysis of laypeople’s beliefs about meaning in life6
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention6
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward6
The world prefers a calm life, but not everyone gets to have one: global trends in valuing and experiencing calmness in the Gallup World Poll6
Martin E. P. Seligman: Realizing human potential6
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue6
Can happiness make a house a home?6
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis6
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial6
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators6
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research6
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts6
Martin Seligman: answering the call to help others6
Untangling purpose: Examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times5
Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study5
Gratitude to God and relational virtues5
Who engages in well-being interventions? An analysis of a global digital intervention study5
The complex creation of happiness: Multidimensional conditionality in the drivers of happy people and societies5
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct5
Positive anxiety: existential authenticity as a pathway to well-being5
Existential humility: strong tests of intellectual humility5
Psychological perspectives on divine forgiveness: 4. Childhood unpredictability negatively and divine forgiveness positively predicts self-forgiveness through self-control5
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context5
Gracious hosts and welcomed guests: implicit theories of good hosts and good visitors5
Regenerative positive psychology: A call to reorient wellbeing science to meet the realities of our world5
Examining PERMA+4 and work role performance beyond self-report bias: insights from multitrait-multimethod analyses5
The effectiveness and mechanisms of a brief online best-possible-self intervention among young adults from mainland China5
Measuring the dynamics of grace at work5
Improving social connection with weak ties and strangers: effects of a new micro-intervention on interaction quality and social behavior5
Moral elevation affects the causal attributions about others’ behavior5
Humility in novice leaders: links to servant leadership and followers’ satisfaction with leadership5
Randomized controlled trial of COMPASS, an online psychosocial intervention targeting posttraumatic growth: addressing acceptability and feasibility4
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne4
Can repeated and reflective prosocial experiences in sport increase generosity in adolescent athletes?4
Meaning in life research: the importance of considering auxiliary assumptions4
Ecological introspection resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic: The threat perception of the pandemic was positively related to pro-environmental behaviors4
The paradoxical benefits of viewing tragic art4
Web of well-being: re-examining PERMA and subjective well-being through networks4
Cash & care: When monetary gifts elicit gratitude4
Character strengths and employment in persons with disabilities: a national survey study4
Intellectual humility as a target for psychological, educational, and political intervention4
Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet4
The benefits of positive affect? Dysregulated positive activation in the workplace as a function of emotional intelligence4
Different effects of competition on gratitude and indebtedness through the exchange relationship4
The value of social media language for the assessment of wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature4
What you want to feel determines how you feel: The role of ideal affect in emotion regulation4
Childhood emotional maltreatment and daily pro-environmental behavior among late adolescents: from a self-determination theory perspective4
Stress’s association with subjective well-being around the globe, and buffering by affluence and prosocial behavior4
Appreciative inquiry and strengths development in the workplace: A dual comparative study4
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study3
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?3
Joy: An integrative theory3
Is intellectual humility polarized too? A systematic examination of intellectual humility, political orientation, and strength of political belief3
A co-citation analysis of purpose: trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship3
In search of convergent creativity: content analysis of research on intellectual humility3
Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice3
Childhood emotional maltreatment predicts social well-being beyond individual well-being: a daily diary study3
A virtues approach to children’s kindness schemas3
Virtues in action are related to the integration of both temperament and character: Comparing the VIA classification of virtues and Cloninger’s biopsychosocial model of personality3
A measure of psychological antifragility: development and replication3
Time after time: optimizing individuals’ experience of work through leaders’ facilitation of employee flow3
The impact of viewing art on well-being—a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms3
Pragmatic prospection is linked with positive life and workplace outcomes3
Gratitude to robot promotes prosocial behavior3
Telehealth dignity therapy for community-dwelling older adults: feasibility and potential efficacy3
Beyond the ivory tower to the silver screen: promoting positive development in children and adolescents through outreach to content creators3
How place shapes the aspirations of hope: the allegory of the privileged and the underprivileged3
Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne3
“What is the point of it all if we are just going to die anyway?”: Exploring Heideggerian concepts of ‘developing-towards-death’ with children using arts-based existential therapy3
Spiritually grounded character in youth: a latent profile analysis3
Putting maximization dimensions and well-being in a daily context: The moderating role of choice domains and characteristics3
What motivates us to be intellectually humble?: A necessary bridge to applied work3
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?3
Efficacy of the “Feel Good - Think Positive”, a school-based positive psychology intervention targeting optimism and hope in children2
Political conviction, intellectual humility, and quietism2
Empathy and self-regulation in prosocial accountability: Gender and genetic (OXTR SNP rs53576 ) pathways2
Special issue on positive existential psychology: seeking a more grounded and complete understanding of positive human existence2
The love of wisdom and the cultivation of human flourishing: toward a science of philosophical practice2
Sowing seeds of gratitude: the effect of the trajectories of Adolescents’ gratitude on depression and the mediating role of self-esteem2
Amor fati as a predictor of subsequent well-being and ill-being in adults: does belief in fate as a homeostatic process account for the prospective relationship?2
General gratitude and gratitude to God: associations with personality and well-being2
Feeling valued as a conversation-specific relational experience: an examination of Buber’s existential dialogical theory2
Learning to learn from positive experiences2
A thematic analysis of Tweets about purpose in life2
First happiness, then meaning. A cross-cultural investigation into well-being dilemmas2
Happiness with recovery from alcohol and substance use disorders predicts abstinence and treatment retention2
Words of well-being: language reveals differences in the relational nature of five components of subjective well-being2
Where does intellectual humility reside?2
The within-person dynamics of affect, meaning in life, and perceived stress2
Can my life get better? Examining lay theories for life satisfaction among younger and older adults2
Considering purpose through the lens of prospection2
Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing2
Meaning in life as a mechanism between perceived posttraumatic growth and subsequent mental health in OEF/OIF/OND military veterans2
Towards a framework for flourishing through social media: a systematic review of 118 research studies2
The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth2
Revising the VIA-Youth: III. scale unidimensionality and measurement invariance2
Awe and Positive Affect: The Role of Self-Transcendence and Self-Focused Attention2
Increasing the total tonnage of human happiness through digital positive psychological interventions: The legacies of MEPS in digital health2
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: a systematic review2
Beyond the conventional view of bipolarity: methodological considerations for examining the relationship between well-being and ill-being2
When humility heals: State humility weakens the relationship between objectification and aggression2
How does money make life meaningful? Socioeconomic status, financial self-efficacy, and meaning in life2
Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition2
Differential effects of psychological resources on well-being and psychological distress: a one-year longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic2
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