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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	85
Correction	63
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	47
Room to Breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences	45
Dealing with uncertain situations	35
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	30
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude	27
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	27
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	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
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	23
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	22
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	21
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	20
Getting humble about intellectual humility	19
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	18
Humility in inquiry	18
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose	17
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	17
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?	16
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	16
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	15
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	14

The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training	14
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	14
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	13
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	13
The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education	12
Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude	12
Can emotional forgiveness promote a decision to forgive? Evidence from a six-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study of Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan	12
Correction	12
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	12
Recent work on intellectual humility: A philosopher’s perspective	12
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	12
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study	11
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	11
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	11
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	11
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	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
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	11
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans	10
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	10
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	10
‘Stay Safe-Feel Positive’ on the frontline: An online positive psychology intervention for police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences	10
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	9
Agency in ancient China	9
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors	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
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	9
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation	9
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	9
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	8
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
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	8
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts	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
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	8
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	8
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	7
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	7
Correction	7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	7
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	7
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being	7
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	7
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	7

A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	7
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	7
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others	7
Can happiness make a house a home?	6
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts	6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study	6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	6
Women pay a steeper price for arrogance: Examining presentation style, gender, and humility	6
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)	6
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	6
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	6
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	6
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	6
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	6
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research	6
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	6
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	6