OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Positive Psychology is 7. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review	106
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	57
Correction	53
Dealing with uncertain situations	37
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries	37
Room to Breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences	35
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	31
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	31
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude	30
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence	26
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude	26
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	25
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	24
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	22
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	20
Slow-looking enhances aesthetic experience	19
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	17
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	17
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	17
Getting humble about intellectual humility	16
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose	16
Humility in inquiry	16
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
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	15

The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	14
When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	14
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	14
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	13
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	13
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?	13
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	13
Correction	13
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	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
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	13
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	12
The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: examining the roles of perspective taking, social connection, reflection, immersion, and individual differences	12
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
Growing up happy: Longitudinal relations between children’s happiness and their social and academic functioning	12
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	12
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	11
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	11
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	10
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)	10
The impact of single-session gratitude interventions on stress and affect	10
Demographic, deployment and post-deployment experiences predict trajectories of meaning in life in OEF/OIF/OND veterans	10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	10
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study	10
An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation	10
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	10
Meaning in life across the adult lifespan: age differences in levels and correlates of purpose, significance, and coherence in a broad US sample	9
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	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
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being	9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	9
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	9
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts	9
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	9
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	9
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	9
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	9
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	9
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	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
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	8
Correction	8
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	8
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
Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	8
The development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)	8
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	7

Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	7
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	7
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	7
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	7
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	7
Can happiness make a house a home?	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
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	7
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take	7
Does Ramadan serve as a naturalistic intervention to promote Muslim American adolescents’ daily virtues? Evidence from a three wave experience sampling study	7
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	7
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study	7