OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Positive Psychology 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 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
Staying ‘in sync’ with others during COVID-19: Perceived positivity resonance mediates cross-sectional and longitudinal links between trait resilience and mental health	26
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
Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself	25
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
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
The effect of positive psychology interventions on well-being and psychopathology in patients with severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Longitudinal relationship between trait gratitude and subjective well-being in adolescents: Evidence from the bi-factor model	21
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	20
Wellbeing literacy: A language-use capability relevant to wellbeing outcomes of positive psychology intervention	20