Journal of Positive Psychology

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	224
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health	159
Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity	127
Hope and well-being in vulnerable contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic: does religious coping matter?	103
Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities	50
Three Good Tools: Positively reflecting backwards and forwards is associated with robust improvements in well-being across three distinct interventions	32
Character strengths-based interventions: Open questions and ideas for future research	32
Gratitude in collectivist and individualist cultures	30
What does positive psychology tell us about early intervention and prevention with children and adolescents? A review of positive psychological interventions with young people	30
A new approach to gratitude interventions in high schools that supports student wellbeing	26
VIA character strengths among U.S. college students and their associations with happiness, well-being, resiliency, academic success and psychopathology	25
Using positive psychology interventions to strengthen family happiness: A family systems approach	25
Beneficial effects of hedonic and eudaimonic motivations on subjective well-being in adolescents: a two-wave cross-lagged analysis	25
Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself	24
Staying ‘in sync’ with others during COVID-19: Perceived positivity resonance mediates cross-sectional and longitudinal links between trait resilience and mental health	24
Awe and the interconnected self	23
Examining building blocks of well-being beyond PERMA and self-report bias	23
Longitudinal relationship between trait gratitude and subjective well-being in adolescents: Evidence from the bi-factor model	21
The effect of positive psychology interventions on well-being and psychopathology in patients with severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Wellbeing literacy: A language-use capability relevant to wellbeing outcomes of positive psychology intervention	20
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 personality	19
The role of significance relative to the other dimensions of meaning in life – an examination utilizing the three dimensional meaning in life scale (3DM)	19
Positive interventions in depression change the structure of well-being and psychological symptoms: A network analysis	18
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	18
How eudaimonic and hedonic orientations map onto seeing beyond the ‘me, now, and tangible’	18

Intellectual humility in conversation: Distinct behavioral indicators of self and peer ratings	18
Minimalism, voluntary simplicity, and well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature	18
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: a systematic review	18
Compassion for self versus other: A critical review of compassion training research	18
Evaluating the impact of a time orientation intervention on well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown: past, present or future?	18
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors	17
A strengths-based approach to chronic pain	17
Can resilience training improve well-being for people in high-risk occupations? A systematic review through a multidimensional lens	16
Self-compassion and attention: self-compassion facilitates disengagement from negative stimuli	16
Methods of gratitude expression and their effects upon well-being: Texting may be just as rewarding as and less risky than face-to-face	15
Loved and lost or never loved at all? Lifelong marital histories and their links with subjective well-being	15
The practice of positive psychology coaching	14
Working mechanisms in positive interventions: A study using daily assessment of positive emotions	14
Training emotional intelligence: Does training in basic emotional abilities help people to improve higher emotional abilities?	14
Art museums as institutions for human flourishing	14
Reflections on unspoken problems and potential solutions for the well-being juggernaut in positive psychology	13
An interdisciplinary mental wellbeing intervention for increasing flourishing: two experimental studies	13
What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment	13
Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) in the age of COVID-19: on the potential impact of digital PPIs on loneliness	13
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?	12
Darwin meets Aristotle: evolutionary evidence for three fundamental virtues	12
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study	12
Agency in Greco-Roman philosophy	11
Nurturing your self: measuring and changing how people strive for what they need	11
A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network	11
Day-to-day changes in parent-adolescent connectedness: Relations with daily subjective well-being and eudaimonia differ for parents and adolescents	10
Supervisor companionate love expression and elicited subordinate gratitude as moral-emotional facilitators of voice amid COVID-19	10
Towards a framework for flourishing through social media: a systematic review of 118 research studies	10
Moral identity, moral self-efficacy, and moral elevation: A sequential mediation model predicting moral intentions and behaviour	10
Experiencing Grace: A Review of the Empirical Literature	10
A bifactor model of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale and its association with subjective well-being	10
The elements model: toward a new generation of positive psychology interventions	10
Stress’s association with subjective well-being around the globe, and buffering by affluence and prosocial behavior	9
Humility in novice leaders: links to servant leadership and followers’ satisfaction with leadership	9
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	9
Stress management or post-traumatic growth facilitation to diminish distress in cancer survivors? a randomized controlled trial	9
Thwarted beneficence: Not getting to help lowers mood	9
Character strengths and virtues in Chinese moral education: evidence from ‘the Code’ and from primary and secondary schools	9
Cross-sectional age differences in 24 character strengths: Five meta-analyses from early adolescence to late adulthood	9
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders	9
Towards a cross-cultural lexical map of wellbeing	9
The complex creation of happiness: Multidimensional conditionality in the drivers of happy people and societies	9
Coaching psychology interventions vs. positive psychology interventions: The measurable benefits of a coaching relationship	9
Post-traumatic growth in the twenty-first century: how current trends may threaten our ability to grow after trauma	9
Political humility: engaging others with different political perspectives	8
Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning	8
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	8
Awe experience triggered by fighting against COVID-19 promotes prosociality through increased feeling of connectedness and empathy	8
Gratitude and lower suicidal ideation among sexual minority individuals: theoretical mechanisms of the protective role of attention to the positive	7
Mamma Mia – A randomized controlled trial of an internet intervention to enhance subjective well-being in perinatal women	7

Advantages of distinguishing perceived and veridical growth: recommendations for future research on both constructs	7
Considering purpose through the lens of prospection	7
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	7
Development, feasibility, acceptability, and impact of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support addiction recovery	7
Transcending the reality of war and conflict: effects of a positive psychology school-based program on adolescents’ mental health, compassion and hopes for peace	7
Epistemological fruit salad: Broadening methodology in positive psychology research to develop contextualised interventions and understandings of well-being	7
Accountability: Construct definition and measurement of a virtue vital to flourishing	7
Recommendations for positive psychology interventions in school settings	7
Emphasizing scientific rigor in the development, testing, and implementation of positive psychological interventions	7
The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning	7
How experiencing autonomy contributes to a good life	7
The evidence-base for positive psychology interventions: a mega-analysis of meta-analyses	7
Examining within-person relationships between state assessments of affect and eudaimonic well-being using multi-level structural equation modeling	6
Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude	6
To give or to take money? The effects of choice on prosocial spending and happiness	6
Learning to learn from positive experiences	6
Great, purposeful expectations: predicting daily purposefulness during the COVID-19 response	6
Am I arrogant? Listen to me and we will both become more humble	6
A prototype analysis of virtue	6
Safe haven gratitude improves emotions, well-being, and parenting outcomes among parents with high levels of attachment insecurity	6
The role of service-learning experiences in promoting flourishing among college-student youth mentors	6
Happy in a crummy world: Implications of primal world beliefs for increasing wellbeing through positive psychology interventions	6
Positive psychological interventions and cognition	6
Keep calm or get excited? Examining the effects of different types of positive affect on responses to acute pain	5
Clinical applications of the VIA Inventory of Strengths with Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities	5
Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study	5
When the pursuit of happiness backfires: The role of negative emotion valuation	5
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Toward a personality integration perspective on creativity: between- and within-persons associations among autonomy, vitality, and everyday creativity	5
Give and take: The role of reciprocity in capitalization	5
The duplicitous effect of organizational identification: applying social identity theory to identify joint relations with workplace social courage and unethical pro-organizational behaviors	5
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	5
The perceived conditions for living well: Positive perceptions of primary goods linked with basic psychological needs and wellness	5
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	5
Longitudinal Relationships Between Social Connection, Agency, and Emotional Well-Being: A 13-Year Study	5
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility	5
No type of forgiveness is an island: divine forgiveness, self-forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness	5
Three good things or three good financial things? Applying a positive psychology intervention to the personal finance domain	5
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: a systematic review of the empirical literature	5
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	5
The effect of validation and invalidation on positive and negative affective experiences	5
Flourishing and psychotic experiences among college students in the United States: findings from the healthy minds study 2020	4
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	4
Who is most likely to benefit from a positive psychological intervention? Moderator analyses from a randomized trial in people newly diagnosed with HIV	4
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	4
Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition	4
Growth mindsets of anxiety: Do the benefits to individual flourishing come with societal costs?	4
A co-citation analysis of purpose: trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship	4
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	4
Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice	4
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	4
Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing	4
Agency in ancient China	4
Examining PERMA+4 and work role performance beyond self-report bias: insights from multitrait-multimethod analyses	4
The virtue counterbalancing model: an illustration with patience & courage	4
Gratitude and future time perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of age and virus worry	4
Purpose profiles among Chinese adolescents: Association with personal characteristics, parental support, and psychological adjustment	4
Being grateful every day will pay off: a daily diary investigation on relationships between gratitude and well-being in Chinese young adults	4
Interaction of adolescent aspirations and self-control on wellbeing in old age: Evidence from a six-decade longitudinal UK birth cohort	3
Looking at life through rose-colored glasses: Dispositional positive affect is related to the intensity of aesthetic experiences	3
Utilizing the Health Belief Model to move post-secondary students toward flourishing mental health	3
Reinterpreting mood induction experiments	3
Conducting mobile-enabled ecological momentary intervention research in positive psychology: key considerations and recommended practices	3
GROW Zambia: A pilot cluster-randomized trial of a spiritually-based character strengths training curriculum to enhance resilience among Zambian youth	3
Differentiation as discrepancies in adolescent’s perceptions of patience: An illustration of response surface analysis	3
When the good may be stronger than the bad: Perceived influence of daily events on well-being	3
Positive psychology is better served by a bivariate rather than bipolar conceptualization of mental health and mental illness: a commentary on Zhao & Tay (2022)	3
Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths	3
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	3
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	3
Comprehension, purpose, and mattering? A latent profile analysis of laypeople’s beliefs about meaning in life	3
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	3
Viewing challenging art lends meaning to life by stimulating integrative complexity	3
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	3
Transcendent accountability: construct and measurement of a virtue that connects religion, spirituality, and positive psychology	3
What do daily reports add to the picture? Results from a photography intervention designed to increase positive emotion	3
An upward cycle: examining bidirectional relationships between everyday activities and momentary affective well-being in caregivers	3
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct	3
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 1. Theoretical and methodological review	3
The effect of combined sertraline and positive psychotherapy on hopelessness and suicidal ideation among patients with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial	3

Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of kindness, social activities, and reappraisal as well-being interventions	3
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	3
For you and for me: harvesting the benefits of prosocial spending in romantic relationships	3
The Happiness Route: finding alternatives to the problem-based approach in social work for vulnerable groups	2
The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth	2
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?	2
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	2
The perception of well-being: Do people with severe psychiatric conditions and their therapists put themselves in each other’s shoes?	2
What you want to feel determines how you feel: The role of ideal affect in emotion regulation	2
The feasibility and acceptability study of a positive psychology group intervention for people with severe psychiatric conditions	2
Returning thanks to God and others: prosocial consequences of transcendent indebtedness	2
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	2
Existential humility: strong tests of intellectual humility	2
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	2
Can repeated and reflective prosocial experiences in sport increase generosity in adolescent athletes?	2
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	2
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	2
Purposeful change: the positive effects of a course-based intervention on character	2
Can compassion to the self be extended to others: the association of self-compassion and other-focused concern	2
Give a dog a bone: Spending money on pets promotes happiness	2
Disentangling character strengths from developmental competencies: The virtue of patience and self-regulatory competencies	2
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne	2
What makes me matter? Investigating how and why people feel significant	2
Abstinence and conscientiousness: gratitude or gratitude to God?	2
Uncritical use of non-evidence-based self-help materials induces victim-blaming on depressed individuals	2
Resolving the paradox of work: generalization of the roles of self-determination, the balance of challenges and skills, and self-realization values in intrinsic motivation across activity domains	2
Joy: An integrative theory	2
Impact of a participatory action approach to virtue promotion among early adolescents	2
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?	2
The trust signaling hypothesis of humility: how humble leaders elicit greater monetary contributions	2
‘If you’re uncomfortable, go outside your comfort zone’: A novel behavioral ‘stretch’ intervention supports the well-being of unhappy people	2
Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet	2
How a grateful leader trait can cultivate creative employees: A dual-level leadership process model	2
Caring for bliss moderates the association between mindfulness, self-compassion, and well-being in college-attending emerging adults	2
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	2
Savor now and also reap the rewards later: amplifying savoring predicts greater uplift frequency over time	2
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context	2
Intellectual humility in the context of existential commitment	2