Journal of Positive Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Positive Psychology is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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 electi150
Dealing with uncertain situations87
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study63
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries54
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review52
Correction38
Room to breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences34
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence33
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach29
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination23
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study22
Slow-looking enhances aesthetic experience22
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial22
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 object21
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study21
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk21
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude20
Getting humble about intellectual humility19
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose18
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension18
The triad of positive experience: play, an expressive self and feeling free are the natural connectors for building young people’s psychological well-being18
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training18
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood16
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate16
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage16
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 adults16
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?16
Humility in inquiry16
Shielded by strength: how character strengths buffer the link between Veteran status and homelessness in a national sample15
Navigating success in positive psychology practice: from education to application14
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning14
Beyond the borders of wellbeing: network analyses reveal the fuzzy boundaries between wellbeing domains14
Correction14
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity13
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan13
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution13
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 flourishing12
Variations in belonging across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study12
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education12
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample12
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences11
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God11
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses11
The system justifying effects of immigrants’ experienced and expected gratitude towards country11
Self-labeling as a survivor predicts perceived posttraumatic growth11
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study11
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework11
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing10
Analysis of latent profiles of gratitude, indebtedness, and religiosity among individuals in romantic relationships in the United States, Canada, and South Korea10
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Defining prosociality: systematic review on prosocial, altruistic, helping and proactive behaviors incorporating artificial intelligence10
Beyond affect, examining amor fati as a distinct and useful positive existential variable in accounting for happiness in US and India: further evidence f10
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect10
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program10
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries10
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach9
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach9
What makes a teddy bear comforting? A participatory study reveals the prevalence of sensory characteristics and emotional bonds in the perception of comforting teddy bears9
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-transcendence9
Addressing the heterogeneity of resilience scales: a systematic review and development of a unified resilience construct within a standardized resilience framework8
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being8
Exploring person-activity fit in positive psychology interventions: comparing strength-focused, weakness-focused, and self-selected approaches8
Creative flourishing: unpacking the creativity-well-being connection in creative practitioners and comparison participants8
Examining the well-being and ill-being correlates of prioritizing positivity and investigating SES as a moderator8
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial8
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)8
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning8
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts8
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial8
Correction7
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes7
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne7
From awe to pro-environmental behavior - a meta-analysis of the relationship between awe and pro-environmental behavior7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs7
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts7
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents7
Efficacy of the best possible self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators7
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others7
The world prefers a calm life, but not everyone gets to have one: global trends in valuing and experiencing calmness in the Gallup World Poll7
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward7
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 intervention7
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science7
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue7
Existential humility: strong tests of intellectual humility6
Character strengths and PERMA +4 in the workplace: using machine learning to assess simple and complex relationships6
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context6
Positive anxiety: existential authenticity as a pathway to well-being6
Moral elevation affects the causal attributions about others’ behavior6
Improving social connection with weak ties and strangers: effects of a new micro-intervention on interaction quality and social behavior6
Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet6
Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study6
Gratitude to God and relational virtues6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study6
Measuring the dynamics of grace at work6
Psychological perspectives on divine forgiveness: 4. Childhood unpredictability negatively and divine forgiveness positively predicts self-forgiveness through self-control6
Who engages in well-being interventions? An analysis of a global digital intervention study6
Regenerative positive psychology: A call to reorient wellbeing science to meet the realities of our world6
Intellectual humility as a target for psychological, educational, and political intervention6
The effectiveness and mechanisms of a brief online best-possible-self intervention among young adults from mainland China6
Untangling purpose: Examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times6
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research6
Gracious hosts and welcomed guests: implicit theories of good hosts and good visitors6
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct6
Psychological well-being among West Point cadets: the role of emotion beliefs and emotional integration6
Character strengths and employment in persons with disabilities: a national survey study6
Telehealth dignity therapy for community-dwelling older adults: feasibility and potential efficacy5
Randomized controlled trial of COMPASS, an online psychosocial intervention targeting posttraumatic growth: addressing acceptability and feasibility5
The benefits of positive affect? Dysregulated positive activation in the workplace as a function of emotional intelligence5
Meaning in life research: the importance of considering auxiliary assumptions5
Ecological introspection resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic: The threat perception of the pandemic was positively related to pro-environmental behaviors5
The value of social media language for the assessment of wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Beyond the ivory tower to the silver screen: promoting positive development in children and adolescents through outreach to content creators5
Childhood emotional maltreatment predicts social well-being beyond individual well-being: a daily diary study5
Belief that the world “Needs Me” statistically explains the relationship between religiosity and subjective wellbeing among Americans5
A virtues approach to children’s kindness schemas5
Purpose in life and loneliness among African American women: an application of latent growth mixture modeling5
Can repeated and reflective prosocial experiences in sport increase generosity in adolescent athletes?5
Perspective taking through model building: a path to open-mindedness and de-polarization?5
Appreciative inquiry and strengths development in the workplace: A dual comparative study5
Divine forgiveness may build psychological and spiritual resources following moral transgressions: an ecological momentary assessment study of U.S. Christians5
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?5
Different effects of competition on gratitude and indebtedness through the exchange relationship5
PERMA to PERMA+4 building blocks of well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature5
The paradoxical benefits of viewing tragic art5
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne5
Childhood emotional maltreatment and daily pro-environmental behavior among late adolescents: from a self-determination theory perspective5
Web of well-being: re-examining PERMA and subjective well-being through networks5
Cash & care: When monetary gifts elicit gratitude5
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?5
A co-citation analysis of purpose: trends and (potential) troubles in the foundation of purpose scholarship4
Time after time: optimizing individuals’ experience of work through leaders’ facilitation of employee flow4
Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne4
Strengthening the heart by means of a gratitude intervention?4
The jovial spirit: a positive existential approach inspired by Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset4
A heuristic formula for appreciating the quality of art and its importance to wellbeing4
Harmony: towards a unified conceptual framework4
Is intellectual humility polarized too? A systematic examination of intellectual humility, political orientation, and strength of political belief4
Pragmatic prospection is linked with positive life and workplace outcomes4
The impact of viewing art on well-being—a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms4
“What is the point of it all if we are just going to die anyway?”: Exploring Heideggerian concepts of ‘developing-towards-death’ with children using arts-based existential therapy4
A measure of psychological antifragility: development and replication4
How place shapes the aspirations of hope: the allegory of the privileged and the underprivileged4
Gratitude to robot promotes prosocial behavior4
Spiritually grounded character in youth: a latent profile analysis4
In search of convergent creativity: content analysis of research on intellectual humility4
Empathy and self-regulation in prosocial accountability: Gender and genetic (OXTR SNP rs53576 ) pathways4
Putting maximization dimensions and well-being in a daily context: The moderating role of choice domains and characteristics4
Embodied meaning-making: a sensory-based intervention to foster psychological well-being4
What motivates us to be intellectually humble?: A necessary bridge to applied work4
Happiness with recovery from alcohol and substance use disorders predicts abstinence and treatment retention3
Efficacy of the “Feel Good - Think Positive”, a school-based positive psychology intervention targeting optimism and hope in children3
First happiness, then meaning. A cross-cultural investigation into well-being dilemmas3
Special issue on positive existential psychology: seeking a more grounded and complete understanding of positive human existence3
Revising the VIA-Youth: III. scale unidimensionality and measurement invariance3
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?3
Education for human flourishing in adolescents: a scoping review3
Feeling valued as a conversation-specific relational experience: an examination of Buber’s existential dialogical theory3
Introduction to the special issue, The Positive Humanities: Arts, Culture and Well-Being : the role of the arts and humanities in individual and communal3
The within-person dynamics of affect, meaning in life, and perceived stress3
Insights from positive education interventions with large effect sizes: A Systematic Review3
The love of wisdom and the cultivation of human flourishing: toward a science of philosophical practice3
The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth3
The critiques and criticisms of positive psychology: a systematic review3
Harnessing relational savoring to mitigate grief: evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention for bereaved older adults3
Smartphone-based program for enhancing curiosity and its associated virtues: a randomized waitlist-controlled pilot study3
How does money make life meaningful? Socioeconomic status, financial self-efficacy, and meaning in life3
Benefits of cumulative resilience: positive childhood experiences and daily prosocial behavior in early adulthood3
Political conviction, intellectual humility, and quietism3
Where does intellectual humility reside?3
Remarkable hospitality: a study of interpersonal hospitality exemplars3
Awe and positive affect: the role of self-transcendence and self-focused attention3
Words of well-being: language reveals differences in the relational nature of five components of subjective well-being3
Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing3
Meaning in life as a mechanism between perceived posttraumatic growth and subsequent mental health in OEF/OIF/OND military veterans3
A thematic analysis of Tweets about purpose in life3
Differential effects of psychological resources on well-being and psychological distress: a one-year longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic3
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