Journal of Positive Psychology

Article	Citations
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health	207
Hope and well-being in vulnerable contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic: does religious coping matter?	113
Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities	56
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: A systematic review	44
Beneficial effects of hedonic and eudaimonic motivations on subjective well-being in adolescents: a two-wave cross-lagged analysis	37
Minimalism, voluntary simplicity, and well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature	35
The role of significance relative to the other dimensions of meaning in life – an examination utilizing the three dimensional meaning in life scale (3DM)	30
Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself	28
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	28
Staying ‘in sync’ with others during COVID-19: Perceived positivity resonance mediates cross-sectional and longitudinal links between trait resilience and mental health	28
Art museums as institutions for human flourishing	23
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	22
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	21
Evaluating the impact of a time orientation intervention on well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown: past, present or future?	19
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors	19
Towards a framework for flourishing through social media: a systematic review of 118 research studies	19
What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment	18
A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network	18
A strengths-based approach to chronic pain	17
Moral identity, moral self-efficacy, and moral elevation: A sequential mediation model predicting moral intentions and behaviour	17
An interdisciplinary mental wellbeing intervention for increasing flourishing: two experimental studies	17
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?	15
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
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study	13
Humility in novice leaders: links to servant leadership and followers’ satisfaction with leadership	13

Awe experience triggered by fighting against COVID-19 promotes prosociality through increased feeling of connectedness and empathy	13
Supervisor companionate love expression and elicited subordinate gratitude as moral-emotional facilitators of voice amid COVID-19	13
Experiencing Grace: A Review of the Empirical Literature	12
The complex creation of happiness: Multidimensional conditionality in the drivers of happy people and societies	12
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	12
Cross-sectional age differences in 24 character strengths: Five meta-analyses from early adolescence to late adulthood	11
The evidence-base for positive psychology interventions: a mega-analysis of meta-analyses	11
Coaching psychology interventions vs. positive psychology interventions: The measurable benefits of a coaching relationship	11
Thwarted beneficence: Not getting to help lowers mood	11
Agency in Greco-Roman philosophy	11
Character strengths and virtues in Chinese moral education: evidence from ‘the Code’ and from primary and secondary schools	10
Learning to learn from positive experiences	10
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	10
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders	10
Stress’s association with subjective well-being around the globe, and buffering by affluence and prosocial behavior	10
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature	10
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	10
Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning	10
Development, feasibility, acceptability, and impact of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support addiction recovery	10
The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning	10
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	10
To give or to take money? The effects of choice on prosocial spending and happiness	9
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	9
Accountability: Construct definition and measurement of a virtue vital to flourishing	9
The duplicitous effect of organizational identification: applying social identity theory to identify joint relations with workplace social courage and unethical pro-organizational behaviors	8
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	8
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	8
Keep calm or get excited? Examining the effects of different types of positive affect on responses to acute pain	8
Advantages of distinguishing perceived and veridical growth: recommendations for future research on both constructs	8
Growth mindsets of anxiety: Do the benefits to individual flourishing come with societal costs?	8
The role of service-learning experiences in promoting flourishing among college-student youth mentors	8
GROW Zambia: A pilot cluster-randomized trial of a spiritually-based character strengths training curriculum to enhance resilience among Zambian youth	8
Considering purpose through the lens of prospection	8
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
When the pursuit of happiness backfires: The role of negative emotion valuation	7
Examining PERMA+4 and work role performance beyond self-report bias: insights from multitrait-multimethod analyses	7
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	7
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	7
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility	7
Comprehension, purpose, and mattering? A latent profile analysis of laypeople’s beliefs about meaning in life	7
Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing	7
The perceived conditions for living well: Positive perceptions of primary goods linked with basic psychological needs and wellness	6
A co-citation analysis of purpose: trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship	6
Am I arrogant? Listen to me and we will both become more humble	6
Purposeful change: the positive effects of a course-based intervention on character	6
No type of forgiveness is an island: divine forgiveness, self-forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness	6
Safe haven gratitude improves emotions, well-being, and parenting outcomes among parents with high levels of attachment insecurity	6
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context	6
Exploring associations between income and wellbeing: new global insights from the Gallup World Poll	6
Gratitude and future time perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of age and virus worry	6

Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	6
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	6
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	6
Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude	6
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	6
Clinical applications of the VIA Inventory of Strengths with Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities	6
Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study	6
Joy: An integrative theory	5
Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice	5
Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition	5
Jingle-jangle fallacies in intellectual humility research	5
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 1. Theoretical and methodological review	5
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	5
Give and take: The role of reciprocity in capitalization	5
Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths	5
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	5
The effect of combined sertraline and positive psychotherapy on hopelessness and suicidal ideation among patients with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial	5
Viewing challenging art lends meaning to life by stimulating integrative complexity	5
Looking at life through rose-colored glasses: Dispositional positive affect is related to the intensity of aesthetic experiences	5
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	5
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	5
Utilizing the Health Belief Model to move post-secondary students toward flourishing mental health	4
What makes me matter? Investigating how and why people feel significant	4
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	4
Intellectual humility in the context of existential commitment	4
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?	4
Dealing with uncertain situations	4
What you want to feel determines how you feel: The role of ideal affect in emotion regulation	4
Flourishing and psychotic experiences among college students in the United States: findings from the healthy minds study 2020	4
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	4
Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of kindness, social activities, and reappraisal as well-being interventions	4
Give a dog a bone: Spending money on pets promotes happiness	4
The playful mediator, moderator, or outcome? An integrative review of the roles of play and playfulness in adult-centered psychological interventions for mental health	4
Agency in ancient China	4
Caring for bliss moderates the association between mindfulness, self-compassion, and well-being in college-attending emerging adults	4
Longitudinal Relationships Between Social Connection, Agency, and Emotional Well-Being: A 13-Year Study	4
‘If you’re uncomfortable, go outside your comfort zone’: A novel behavioral ‘stretch’ intervention supports the well-being of unhappy people	4
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	4
Being grateful every day will pay off: a daily diary investigation on relationships between gratitude and well-being in Chinese young adults	4
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	3
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	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
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	3
Can repeated and reflective prosocial experiences in sport increase generosity in adolescent athletes?	3
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	3
Where does intellectual humility reside?	3
Abstinence and conscientiousness: gratitude or gratitude to God?	3
Disentangling character strengths from developmental competencies: The virtue of patience and self-regulatory competencies	3
Conducting mobile-enabled ecological momentary intervention research in positive psychology: key considerations and recommended practices	3
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	3
Cross-cultural differences in supportive responses to positive event disclosure	3
Differentiation as discrepancies in adolescent’s perceptions of patience: An illustration of response surface analysis	3
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne	3
An upward cycle: examining bidirectional relationships between everyday activities and momentary affective well-being in caregivers	3
The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth	3
Efficacy of the “Feel Good - Think Positive”, a school-based positive psychology intervention targeting optimism and hope in children	3
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	3
Reinterpreting mood induction experiments	3
Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne	3
Existential humility: strong tests of intellectual humility	3
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	3
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	3
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?	3
Transcendent accountability: construct and measurement of a virtue that connects religion, spirituality, and positive psychology	3
Impact of a participatory action approach to virtue promotion among early adolescents	3
Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet	3
Moral elevation affects the causal attributions about others’ behavior	3
Returning thanks to God and others: prosocial consequences of transcendent indebtedness	3
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct	3
Measuring grateful climate at the sports team	3
Family purpose: an empirical investigation of collective purpose	3
Experiencing work as decent, meaningful, neither, or both: a latent profile analysis	2
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	2
Is intellectual humility ‘good’ for people?	2
Can compassion to the self be extended to others: the association of self-compassion and other-focused concern	2
Intellectual humility and existentially relevant moral decisions	2
In search of convergent creativity: content analysis of research on intellectual humility	2
Not just love and safety, but excitement, energy, fun, and passion: relational predictors of gratitude to God and desires to “pay it forward”	2
Security: Tradeoffs between efficiency and friction, freedom and constraint	2
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	2

Beyond the ivory tower to the silver screen: promoting positive development in children and adolescents through outreach to content creators	2
The feasibility and acceptability study of a positive psychology group intervention for people with severe psychiatric conditions	2
What makes a teddy bear comforting? A participatory study reveals the prevalence of sensory characteristics and emotional bonds in the perception of comforting teddy bears	2
The trust signaling hypothesis of humility: how humble leaders elicit greater monetary contributions	2
Promoting character through developmental experiences in conservation service youth programs	2
Pragmatic prospection is linked with positive life and workplace outcomes	2
God of the good gaps: prevalence, eliciting situations, and demonstrations of gratitude to God as compared to interpersonal gratitude	2
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	2
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	2
The perception of well-being: Do people with severe psychiatric conditions and their therapists put themselves in each other’s shoes?	2
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	2
How a grateful leader trait can cultivate creative employees: A dual-level leadership process model	2
Political conviction, intellectual humility, and quietism	2
Contextualized measurement of virtues: best practices and innovations	2
Flourishing as ‘sustainable well-being’: balance and harmony within and across people, ecosystems, and time	2
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	2
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research	2