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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	228
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health	162
Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity	131
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	51
Character strengths-based interventions: Open questions and ideas for future research	33
Three Good Tools: Positively reflecting backwards and forwards is associated with robust improvements in well-being across three distinct interventions	32
Gratitude in collectivist and individualist cultures	31
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
Using positive psychology interventions to strengthen family happiness: A family systems approach	26
Staying ‘in sync’ with others during COVID-19: Perceived positivity resonance mediates cross-sectional and longitudinal links between trait resilience and mental health	26
Beneficial effects of hedonic and eudaimonic motivations on subjective well-being in adolescents: a two-wave cross-lagged analysis	25
VIA character strengths among U.S. college students and their associations with happiness, well-being, resiliency, academic success and psychopathology	25
Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself	25
Examining building blocks of well-being beyond PERMA and self-report bias	24
Awe and the interconnected self	23
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: a systematic review	22
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	21
Wellbeing literacy: A language-use capability relevant to wellbeing outcomes of positive psychology intervention	20
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	20
Minimalism, voluntary simplicity, and well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature	19
Compassion for self versus other: A critical review of compassion training research	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

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
How eudaimonic and hedonic orientations map onto seeing beyond the ‘me, now, and tangible’	18
Positive interventions in depression change the structure of well-being and psychological symptoms: A network analysis	18
Evaluating the impact of a time orientation intervention on well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown: past, present or future?	18
A strengths-based approach to chronic pain	17
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors	17
Can resilience training improve well-being for people in high-risk occupations? A systematic review through a multidimensional lens	17
Self-compassion and attention: self-compassion facilitates disengagement from negative stimuli	16
Art museums as institutions for human flourishing	15
Loved and lost or never loved at all? Lifelong marital histories and their links with subjective well-being	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
Working mechanisms in positive interventions: A study using daily assessment of positive emotions	14
The practice of positive psychology coaching	14
An interdisciplinary mental wellbeing intervention for increasing flourishing: two experimental studies	14
What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment	13
Reflections on unspoken problems and potential solutions for the well-being juggernaut in positive psychology	13
Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) in the age of COVID-19: on the potential impact of digital PPIs on loneliness	13
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study	12
Darwin meets Aristotle: evolutionary evidence for three fundamental virtues	12
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?	12
The elements model: toward a new generation of positive psychology interventions	11
A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network	11
Agency in Greco-Roman philosophy	11
Nurturing your self: measuring and changing how people strive for what they need	11
Supervisor companionate love expression and elicited subordinate gratitude as moral-emotional facilitators of voice amid COVID-19	11
Day-to-day changes in parent-adolescent connectedness: Relations with daily subjective well-being and eudaimonia differ for parents and adolescents	10
Moral identity, moral self-efficacy, and moral elevation: A sequential mediation model predicting moral intentions and behaviour	10
A bifactor model of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale and its association with subjective well-being	10
Post-traumatic growth in the twenty-first century: how current trends may threaten our ability to grow after trauma	10
Towards a framework for flourishing through social media: a systematic review of 118 research studies	10
Experiencing Grace: A Review of the Empirical Literature	10
Towards a cross-cultural lexical map of wellbeing	9
Humility in novice leaders: links to servant leadership and followers’ satisfaction with leadership	9
Coaching psychology interventions vs. positive psychology interventions: The measurable benefits of a coaching relationship	9
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders	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
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	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
Stress’s association with subjective well-being around the globe, and buffering by affluence and prosocial behavior	9
The complex creation of happiness: Multidimensional conditionality in the drivers of happy people and societies	9
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	9
Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning	9
Awe experience triggered by fighting against COVID-19 promotes prosociality through increased feeling of connectedness and empathy	8
The evidence-base for positive psychology interventions: a mega-analysis of meta-analyses	8
Political humility: engaging others with different political perspectives	8
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature	7
Gratitude and lower suicidal ideation among sexual minority individuals: theoretical mechanisms of the protective role of attention to the positive	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
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
Development, feasibility, acceptability, and impact of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support addiction recovery	7
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	7
To give or to take money? The effects of choice on prosocial spending and happiness	7
How experiencing autonomy contributes to a good life	7
Considering purpose through the lens of prospection	7
Learning to learn from positive experiences	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
Advantages of distinguishing perceived and veridical growth: recommendations for future research on both constructs	7
Positive psychological interventions and cognition	7
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	7