Journal of Happiness Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Happiness Studies is 20. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Does Relative Consumption Deprivation Influence Subjective Well-Being? The Moderating Role of Housing Wealth75
Wanting to be Happy Fosters Happiness by Promoting Savoring: A Daily Diary Study65
Gratitude Training for Promoting Subjective Well-Being: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Journaling to a Personalized Menu Approach43
Energy Loss After Daily Role Stress and Work Incivility: Caring for Oneself with Emotional Wellness33
Contentment and Self-acceptance: Wellbeing Beyond Happiness32
Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures29
Pleasure or Meaning: Subjective Well-Being Orientations and the Willingness to Help Close Versus Distant Others28
What’s Your Humor Profile? A Latent Profile Analysis on the State-Trait Model of Cheerfulness as the Temperamental Basis of Humor27
Spoiling the Spoils: Indulgent Parenting Costs Parents’ Well-Being More When Adolescents Deny Receiving Much Indulgence26
The Paradox of Wealthy Nations’ Low Adolescent Life Satisfaction26
Seeking Pleasure is Good, but Avoiding Pain is Bad: Distinguishing Hedonic Approach from Hedonic Avoidance Orientations26
The Longitudinal Effect of Pre-war Investments in Hedonic Capital on Wartime Well-Being25
Nonhuman Well-Being is a Part of Happiness and Well-Being Conceptions Among Central Indian Indigenous Communities24
Gender Equality and Life Satisfaction: A Mediation Model with Individual Autonomy, Income Per Capita and Trust22
Who Matters the Most? The Differential Role of Parents, Teachers, and Peers’ Supportive Relationships in Early Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being22
Relative Effects on Life Satisfaction Revisited: Social Comparison is Only Half the Story22
Revisiting the Energy-Happiness Paradox in China: The Role of Housing Outcomes21
Six-Week Online Multi-component Positive Psychology Intervention Improves Subjective Wellbeing in Young Adults20
The power of strength-oriented feedback enlightened by self-determination theory: a positive technology-based intervention20
The Good Life Versus the “Goods Life”: An Investigation of Goal Contents Theory and Employee Subjective Well-Being Across Asian Countries20
Paradoxical Impacts of Social Relationship on Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic20
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