Journal of Positive Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Positive Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review114
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study60
Correction43
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them39
The election of Pope Leo XIV and its impact on the meaning of life for Roman Catholic Christians: A longitudinal experience sampling method study in the USA before, during, and after the pope’s electi36
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries32
Room to breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences31
Dealing with uncertain situations31
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study28
Slow-looking enhances aesthetic experience26
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence25
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk25
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 object22
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination20
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude18
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion18
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude17
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial17
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach16
Getting humble about intellectual humility16
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study16
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose16
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training15
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage15
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood15
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate15
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension14
Humility in inquiry14
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 adults14
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?14
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?13
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context13
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure13
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan12
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution12
Correction12
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship12
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity12
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning11
Shielded by strength: how character strengths buffer the link between Veteran status and homelessness in a national sample11
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education11
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience11
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences10
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans10
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing10
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample10
Variations in belonging across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study10
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation10
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research10
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework10
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)10
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program9
Analysis of latent profiles of gratitude, indebtedness, and religiosity among individuals in romantic relationships in the United States, Canada, and South Korea9
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment9
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries9
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample9
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect9
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God9
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace9
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts8
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning8
Positive psychology is better served by a bivariate rather than bipolar conceptualization of mental health and mental illness: a commentary on Zhao & Tay (2022)8
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial8
Addressing the heterogeneity of resilience scales: a systematic review and development of a unified resilience construct within a standardized resilience framework8
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being8
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
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach7
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others7
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study7
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence7
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
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis7
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes7
Correction7
Can happiness make a house a home?7
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial7
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study6
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention6
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science6
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward6
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context6
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators6
From awe to pro-environmental behavior - a meta-analysis of the relationship between awe and pro-environmental behavior6
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
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research6
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
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne6
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents6
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take6
Martin E. P. Seligman: Realizing human potential6
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
Measuring the dynamics of grace at work5
Positive anxiety: existential authenticity as a pathway to well-being5
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
Intellectual humility as a target for psychological, educational, and political intervention5
Can repeated and reflective prosocial experiences in sport increase generosity in adolescent athletes?5
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature5
Existential humility: strong tests of intellectual humility5
The effectiveness and mechanisms of a brief online best-possible-self intervention among young adults from mainland China5
Psychological perspectives on divine forgiveness: 4. Childhood unpredictability negatively and divine forgiveness positively predicts self-forgiveness through self-control5
Untangling purpose: Examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times5
Meaning in life research: the importance of considering auxiliary assumptions5
Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet5
Childhood emotional maltreatment and daily pro-environmental behavior among late adolescents: from a self-determination theory perspective5
Ecological introspection resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic: The threat perception of the pandemic was positively related to pro-environmental behaviors5
Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study5
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct5
Martin Seligman: answering the call to help others5
Gratitude to God and relational virtues5
Who engages in well-being interventions? An analysis of a global digital intervention study5
What you want to feel determines how you feel: The role of ideal affect in emotion regulation5
Purpose in life and loneliness among African American women: an application of latent growth mixture modeling5
Telehealth dignity therapy for community-dwelling older adults: feasibility and potential efficacy4
What motivates us to be intellectually humble?: A necessary bridge to applied work4
Harmony: towards a unified conceptual framework4
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?4
Web of well-being: re-examining PERMA and subjective well-being through networks4
Different effects of competition on gratitude and indebtedness through the exchange relationship4
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne4
Childhood emotional maltreatment predicts social well-being beyond individual well-being: a daily diary study4
Divine forgiveness may build psychological and spiritual resources following moral transgressions: an ecological momentary assessment study of U.S. Christians4
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?4
How place shapes the aspirations of hope: the allegory of the privileged and the underprivileged4
The jovial spirit: a positive existential approach inspired by Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset4
The paradoxical benefits of viewing tragic art4
Randomized controlled trial of COMPASS, an online psychosocial intervention targeting posttraumatic growth: addressing acceptability and feasibility4
Appreciative inquiry and strengths development in the workplace: A dual comparative study4
Cash & care: When monetary gifts elicit gratitude4
Joy: An integrative theory4
Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice4
A measure of psychological antifragility: development and replication4
A heuristic formula for appreciating the quality of art and its importance to wellbeing4
The value of social media language for the assessment of wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
A virtues approach to children’s kindness schemas4
The benefits of positive affect? Dysregulated positive activation in the workplace as a function of emotional intelligence4
Character strengths and employment in persons with disabilities: a national survey study4
Beyond the ivory tower to the silver screen: promoting positive development in children and adolescents through outreach to content creators4
Political conviction, intellectual humility, and quietism3
Education for human flourishing in adolescents: a scoping review3
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: a systematic review3
Smartphone-based program for enhancing curiosity and its associated virtues: a randomized waitlist-controlled pilot study3
Where does intellectual humility reside?3
The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth3
Increasing the total tonnage of human happiness through digital positive psychological interventions: The legacies of MEPS in digital health3
The love of wisdom and the cultivation of human flourishing: toward a science of philosophical practice3
The impact of viewing art on well-being—a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms3
“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
Time after time: optimizing individuals’ experience of work through leaders’ facilitation of employee flow3
In search of convergent creativity: content analysis of research on intellectual humility3
Strengthening the heart by means of a gratitude intervention?3
Differential effects of psychological resources on well-being and psychological distress: a one-year longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Learning to learn from positive experiences3
Happiness with recovery from alcohol and substance use disorders predicts abstinence and treatment retention3
Revising the VIA-Youth: III. scale unidimensionality and measurement invariance3
Empathy and self-regulation in prosocial accountability: Gender and genetic (OXTR SNP rs53576 ) pathways3
A co-citation analysis of purpose: trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship3
Awe and Positive Affect: The Role of Self-Transcendence and Self-Focused Attention3
Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne3
Is intellectual humility polarized too? A systematic examination of intellectual humility, political orientation, and strength of political belief3
Gratitude to robot promotes prosocial behavior3
Efficacy of the “Feel Good - Think Positive”, a school-based positive psychology intervention targeting optimism and hope in children3
Introduction to the special issue, The Positive Humanities: Arts, Culture and Well-Being : the role of the arts and humanities in individual and communal flourishing3
The within-person dynamics of affect, meaning in life, and perceived stress3
Special issue on positive existential psychology: seeking a more grounded and complete understanding of positive human existence3
Pragmatic prospection is linked with positive life and workplace outcomes3
A thematic analysis of Tweets about purpose in life3
Words of well-being: language reveals differences in the relational nature of five components of subjective well-being3
Towards a framework for flourishing through social media: a systematic review of 118 research studies3
Putting maximization dimensions and well-being in a daily context: The moderating role of choice domains and characteristics3
Spiritually grounded character in youth: a latent profile analysis3
First happiness, then meaning. A cross-cultural investigation into well-being dilemmas3
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