OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Positive Psychology is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	79
Correction	63
Dealing with uncertain situations	43
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	43
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	35
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	28
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 object	26
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	25
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	25
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	24
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	24
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence	23
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	23
Getting humble about intellectual humility	21
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude	21
Humility in inquiry	19
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 purpose	17
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	17
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	17
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	16
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	16
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?	16
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training	15
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	15

Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	14
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 adults	13
Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude	13
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	12
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	12
Correction	12
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	12
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education	12
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan	11
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	11
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	11
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	11
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 framework	11
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	11
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans	11
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample	10
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	10
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation	9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	9
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	9
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	9
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	9
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	9
Agency in ancient China	8
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	8
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	8
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors	8
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	8
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	8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	8
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	7
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	7
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 others	7
Correction	7
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	7
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	7
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research	6
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts	6
Martin Seligman: answering the call to help others	6
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study	6

The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	6
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	6
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility	6
Comprehension, purpose, and mattering? A latent profile analysis of laypeople’s beliefs about meaning in life	6
Can happiness make a house a home?	6
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	6
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	6
The world prefers a calm life, but not everyone gets to have one: global trends in valuing and experiencing calmness in the Gallup World Poll	6
Martin E. P. Seligman: Realizing human potential	6
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	6
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	6
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	6
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	6