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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
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
Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself	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
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
Evaluating the impact of a time orientation intervention on well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown: past, present or future?	19
A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network	18
What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment	18
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
A strengths-based approach to chronic pain	17
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
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?	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
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
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
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
To give or to take money? The effects of choice on prosocial spending and happiness	9
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
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
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
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
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