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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	102
Correction	55
Room to Breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences	50
Dealing with uncertain situations	41
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	35
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries	35
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review	33
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 object	31
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	28
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	28
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	27
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	26
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude	25
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude	24
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence	24
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	21
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	20
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	18
Humility in inquiry	17
Getting humble about intellectual humility	17
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	16
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose	16
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	15
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	15
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training	15

The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	15
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 adults	14
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	14
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	13
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	13
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	13
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?	13
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan	13
Correction	13
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	13
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	12
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education	12
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	12
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	12
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	12
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	12
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	11
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study	11
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	11
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)	11
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences	10
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	10
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans	10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation	9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	9
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	9
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
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	9
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	9
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts	9
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	9
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample	9
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	9
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	9
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others	8
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	8
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being	8
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	8
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	8
Correction	8
What makes a teddy bear comforting? A participatory study reveals the prevalence of sensory characteristics and emotional bonds in the perception of comforting teddy bears	8
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	8
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	7
The world prefers a calm life, but not everyone gets to have one: global trends in valuing and experiencing calmness in the Gallup World Poll	7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	7

Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	7
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	7
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts	7
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	7
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)	7
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	7
Can happiness make a house a home?	7
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	7
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	7
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	6
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study	6
Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study	6
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context	6
Martin Seligman: answering the call to help others	6
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility	6
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take	6
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	6
Measuring the dynamics of grace at work	6
Martin E. P. Seligman: Realizing human potential	6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	6
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research	6
Psychological perspectives on divine forgiveness: 4. Childhood unpredictability negatively and divine forgiveness positively predicts self-forgiveness through self-control	6
Untangling purpose: Examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times	6
Gratitude to God and relational virtues	6