Journal of Positive Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Positive Psychology is 2. 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
The benefits of positive affect? Dysregulated positive activation in the workplace as a function of emotional intelligence72
Cash & care: when monetary gifts elicit gratitude63
Marty, me, and early positive psychology40
Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths40
Enjoying the moment of joy: Culture and self during emotional experience40
Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition34
Web of well-being: re-examining PERMA and subjective well-being through networks27
Meaning in life as a mechanism between perceived posttraumatic growth and subsequent mental health in OEF/OIF/OND military veterans24
Suddenly enlightened: awe promotes wise reasoning via self-transcendence23
How does money make life meaningful? Socioeconomic status, financial self-efficacy, and meaning in life22
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach22
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial21
Appreciative inquiry and strengths development in the workplace: A dual comparative study21
Meaning through fantasy? Fantasy proneness positively predicts meaning for people high in depression21
A virtues approach to children’s kindness schemas21
Different effects of competition on gratitude and indebtedness through the exchange relationship20
Considering purpose through the lens of prospection17
Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing17
Accountability: Construct definition and measurement of a virtue vital to flourishing16
The evidence-base for positive psychology interventions: a mega-analysis of meta-analyses16
The value of social media language for the assessment of wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis16
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning16
Randomized controlled trial of COMPASS, an online psychosocial intervention targeting posttraumatic growth: addressing acceptability and feasibility15
Feeling valued as a conversation-specific relational experience: an examination of Buber’s existential dialogical theory15
The paradoxical benefits of viewing tragic art14
Looking at life through rose-colored glasses: Dispositional positive affect is related to the intensity of aesthetic experiences13
Clinical applications of the VIA Inventory of Strengths with Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities12
Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study12
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace12
Servant leadership, meaningfulness and flow: an upward spiral12
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them12
Dealing with uncertain situations11
Increasing support for loved ones with depression using moral elevation: a cross-cultural exploration of different elevation inductions11
Notice of duplicate publication: Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice11
Correction11
Differential effects of psychological resources on well-being and psychological distress: a one-year longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic11
The playful mediator, moderator, or outcome? An integrative review of the roles of play and playfulness in adult-centered psychological interventions for mental health11
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study11
What makes a teddy bear comforting? A participatory study reveals the prevalence of sensory characteristics and emotional bonds in the perception of comforting teddy bears10
Transcendent accountability: construct and measurement of a virtue that connects religion, spirituality, and positive psychology10
Being grateful every day will pay off: a daily diary investigation on relationships between gratitude and well-being in Chinese young adults10
Methods of gratitude expression and their effects upon well-being: Texting may be just as rewarding as and less risky than face-to-face10
Is intellectual humility ‘good’ for people?10
What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment9
Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning9
Only the lonely: learning, use of skills, and sense of meaning buffer the costs of reduced social connection for life satisfaction9
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence9
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach8
Telehealth dignity therapy for community-dwelling older adults: feasibility and potential efficacy8
Why does a grateful mind prevent an aggressive hand? Perspective taking mediated the relation between gratitude and two types of aggression among individuals in the general population and prisoners8
Positive psychology is better served by a bivariate rather than bipolar conceptualization of mental health and mental illness: a commentary on Zhao & Tay (2022)8
Intellectual humility in applied sociocultural contexts: a reply to Ballantyne8
No type of forgiveness is an island: divine forgiveness, self-forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness8
Sowing seeds of gratitude: the effect of the trajectories of Adolescents’ gratitude on depression and the mediating role of self-esteem8
Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice7
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification7
When humility heals: State humility weakens the relationship between objectification and aggression7
‘If you’re uncomfortable, go outside your comfort zone’: A novel behavioral ‘stretch’ intervention supports the well-being of unhappy people7
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study7
Amor fati as a predictor of subsequent well-being and ill-being in adults: does belief in fate as a homeostatic process account for the prospective relationship?7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs7
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes7
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination7
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk6
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude6
Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence?6
Intellectual humility and religious convictions: when does virtue become vice?6
Gratitude and future time perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of age and virus worry6
A tale of self-transcendence: awe fosters optimism6
Minimalism, voluntary simplicity, and well-being: A systematic review of the empirical literature6
On intrinsic motivation, flow, and absorption: a new theoretical perspective6
Childhood emotional maltreatment predicts social well-being beyond individual well-being: a daily diary study6
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 object6
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial6
Beyond the conventional view of bipolarity: methodological considerations for examining the relationship between well-being and ill-being6
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence6
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis6
A grateful space: understanding a range of gratitude experiences6
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial6
Experiencing work as decent, meaningful, neither, or both: a latent profile analysis6
Beyond the ivory tower to the silver screen: promoting positive development in children and adolescents through outreach to content creators6
Deprivation, contentment, and depression6
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders5
Can my life get better? Examining lay theories for life satisfaction among younger and older adults5
General gratitude and gratitude to God: associations with personality and well-being5
Unique cognitive and emotional profiles of interpersonal gratitude and spiritual gratitude5
Purposeful change: the positive effects of a course-based intervention on character5
Correction5
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others5
Dare to be yourself: courage promotes self-authenticity via sense of power5
Viewing challenging art lends meaning to life by stimulating integrative complexity5
The power of smiles: mitigating pain through facial expression5
The interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: an introduction to the special issue5
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study5
Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of kindness, social activities, and reappraisal as well-being interventions5
Is variety the spice of happiness? More variety is associated with lower efficacy of positive activity interventions in a sample of over 200,000 happiness seekers4
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach4
From ill-being to well-being: Bipolar or bivariate?4
The role of significance relative to the other dimensions of meaning in life – an examination utilizing the three dimensional meaning in life scale (3DM)4
The duplicitous effect of organizational identification: applying social identity theory to identify joint relations with workplace social courage and unethical pro-organizational behaviors4
A modest proposal: Free will is real4
A close analysis of eight flourishing measures4
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion4
Awe experience triggered by fighting against COVID-19 promotes prosociality through increased feeling of connectedness and empathy4
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study4
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension4
Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life4
Happiness is associated with successful living across cultures4
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study4
Advantages of distinguishing perceived and veridical growth: recommendations for future research on both constructs4
Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities4
Joy: An integrative theory4
Family purpose: an empirical investigation of collective purpose3
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents3
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne3
Intellectual humility in the context of existential commitment3
Computational positive psychology: advancing the science of wellbeing in the digital era3
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose3
Security: Tradeoffs between efficiency and friction, freedom and constraint3
What motivates us to be intellectually humble?: A necessary bridge to applied work3
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention3
The world prefers a calm life, but not everyone gets to have one: global trends in valuing and experiencing calmness in the Gallup World Poll3
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 adults3
Proverbial positive psychology: can we leverage African ancient wisdom to promote flourishing?3
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 personality3
Supervisor companionate love expression and elicited subordinate gratitude as moral-emotional facilitators of voice amid COVID-193
A measure of psychological antifragility: development and replication3
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training3
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science3
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward3
Longitudinal Relationships Between Social Connection, Agency, and Emotional Well-Being: A 13-Year Study3
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study3
Best possible selves in times of crisis: randomized controlled trial of best possible self-interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Getting humble about intellectual humility3
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context3
Correction3
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure3
The world as I see it: genetic and environmental influences on primal world beliefs in a large Swedish twin sample3
Not just love and safety, but excitement, energy, fun, and passion: relational predictors of gratitude to God and desires to “pay it forward”3
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood3
Resolving the paradox of work: generalization of the roles of self-determination, the balance of challenges and skills, and self-realization values in intrinsic motivation across activity domains3
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts3
God of the good gaps: prevalence, eliciting situations, and demonstrations of gratitude to God as compared to interpersonal gratitude3
Differences among a satisfied, a meaningful, and a psychologically rich working life2
Cross-cultural differences in supportive responses to positive event disclosure2
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research2
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience2
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage2
To give or to take money? The effects of choice on prosocial spending and happiness2
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate2
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?2
How place shapes the aspirations of hope: the allegory of the privileged and the underprivileged2
GROW Zambia: A pilot cluster-randomized trial of a spiritually-based character strengths training curriculum to enhance resilience among Zambian youth2
The effect of combined sertraline and positive psychotherapy on hopelessness and suicidal ideation among patients with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial2
“The very process made me happier!” Is pleasure research an affective intervention?2
Comprehension, purpose, and mattering? A latent profile analysis of laypeople’s beliefs about meaning in life2
Exploring associations between income and wellbeing: new global insights from the Gallup World Poll2
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research2
Can happiness make a house a home?2
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?2
Purpose-focused SEL in high school: an evaluation of the Wayfinder purpose curriculum2
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility2
Untangling purpose: examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times2
Am I arrogant? Listen to me and we will both become more humble2
A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network2
Humility in inquiry2
Interpersonal mattering and the experience of meaning in life2
Gratitude to robot promotes prosocial behavior2
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