OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Positive Psychology is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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 electi	150
Dealing with uncertain situations	87
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	63
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries	54
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review	52
Correction	38
Room to breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences	34
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence	33
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	29
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	23
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	22
Slow-looking enhances aesthetic experience	22
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	22
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	21
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	21
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	21
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude	20
Getting humble about intellectual humility	19
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose	18
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	18
The triad of positive experience: play, an expressive self and feeling free are the natural connectors for building young people’s psychological well-being	18
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training	18
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	16
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	16
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	16

Humility in inquiry	16
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
Shielded by strength: how character strengths buffer the link between Veteran status and homelessness in a national sample	15
Navigating success in positive psychology practice: from education to application	14
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	14
Beyond the borders of wellbeing: network analyses reveal the fuzzy boundaries between wellbeing domains	14
Correction	14
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	13
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan	13
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	13
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)	12
Sexuality in positive psychology: toward the integration of a neglected component of human flourishing	12
Variations in belonging across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study	12
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education	12
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	12
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences	11
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	11
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	11
The system justifying effects of immigrants’ experienced and expected gratitude towards country	11
Self-labeling as a survivor predicts perceived posttraumatic growth	11
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study	11
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	11
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	10
Analysis of latent profiles of gratitude, indebtedness, and religiosity among individuals in romantic relationships in the United States, Canada, and South Korea	10
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Defining prosociality: systematic review on prosocial, altruistic, helping and proactive behaviors incorporating artificial intelligence	10
Beyond affect, examining amor fati as a distinct and useful positive existential variable in accounting for happiness in US and India: further evidence f	10
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	10
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	10
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	10
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample	10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation	10
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	9
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	9
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	9
Positive psychology is better served by a bivariate rather than bipolar conceptualization of mental health and mental illness: a commentary on Zhao & Tay (2022)	9
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	9
Addressing the heterogeneity of resilience scales: a systematic review and development of a unified resilience construct within a standardized resilience framework	8
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being	8
Exploring person-activity fit in positive psychology interventions: comparing strength-focused, weakness-focused, and self-selected approaches	8
Creative flourishing: unpacking the creativity-well-being connection in creative practitioners and comparison participants	8
Examining the well-being and ill-being correlates of prioritizing positivity and investigating SES as a moderator	8
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	8
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)	8
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	8
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts	8
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	8

Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	7
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take	7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	7
From awe to pro-environmental behavior - a meta-analysis of the relationship between awe and pro-environmental behavior	7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	7
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts	7
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	7
Efficacy of the best possible self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	7
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others	7
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	7
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	7
Can happiness make a house a home?	7
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	7
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	7
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	7
Correction	7