OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Does positive climate moderate the relationship of strengths use and knowledge with flow at work? A three year study	121
Correction	67
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 electi	50
Fostering meaningful engagement and well-being through slow-looking and guided interviews in art galleries	41
Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them	40
Room to breathe : Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences	38
Dealing with uncertain situations	31
Cross-cultural application of positive psychology therapy for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review	30
Comparing, Differentiating, and Applying Affective Facial Coding Techniques for the Assessment of Positive Emotion	29
Motivation and well-being across the lifespan: A cross-sectional examination	28
Slow-looking enhances aesthetic experience	26
Value of goal predicts accolade courage: more evidence that courage is a taking a worthwhile risk	22
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	20
Words and action: assessing interpersonal expressions of gratitude	19
Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude	19
Presence of meaning in life mediates the effects of gratitude and caring for bliss on flourishing in college students: a three-wave longitudinal study	18
Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial	18
A critical examination of the effectiveness of gratitude intervention on well-Being Outcomes: A within-person experimental daily diary approach	17
Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study	17
Affective, cognitive, and environmental inductions of humility and intellectual humility that center on self-transcendence	16
His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood	16
Getting humble about intellectual humility	16
The RAW wellbeing program for adolescents at risk of disengaging from education, employment, and training	15
Gratitude, flourishing and prosocial behaviors following experimental sleep restriction and sleep extension	15
The VIA virtue model: Half-Baked or brilliant?	15

When does perceived coach autonomy support enhances change in athletes’ subjective vitality? The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	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	15
The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage	15
Humility in inquiry	15
Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose	14
Are daily supernatural attributions to God and the devil/demons linked with meaning in life?	14
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context	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	12
Shielded by strength: how character strengths buffer the link between Veteran status and homelessness in a national sample	12
Evolving positive psychology: A blueprint for advancing the study of purpose in life, psychological strengths, and resilience	12
The emotional state assessment tool: a brief, philosophically informed, and cross-culturally sensitive measure	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
Correction	12
Effects of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity	12
Understanding intellectual humility and intellectual character within a dynamic personality framework	11
Subjective well-being and suicidal ideation in a military community sample	11
Variations in belonging across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study	11
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution	11
The epidemiology of love: Historical perspectives and implications for population-health research	11
Making waves in the great ocean: A historical perspective on the emergence and evolution of wellbeing scholarship	11
Early childhood precursors of compassionate concern for others: a 17-year longitudinal study	10
Being grateful and feeling grateful: reconsidering the phenomenology of gratitude to God	10
Measuring hope and joy among Black Americans 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
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
Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment	10
Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses	10
Divine attributions, gift appraisals, and supernatural operating rules as predictors of gratitude to God	10
Analysis of latent profiles of gratitude, indebtedness, and religiosity among individuals in romantic relationships in the United States, Canada, and South Korea	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
Online self-compassion training vs. expressive writing: A randomized controlled trial	9
The cosmic calendar: being reminded of the vastness of time can improve wellbeing	9
Sages and Seekers: The development of diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking and purpose through an intergenerational storytelling program	9
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	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
“Not too little and not too much?” The relationships between spare time, spare money, and subjective well-being	9
Predicting individual response to a web-based positive psychology intervention: a machine learning approach	9
Systematic review of character development in low- and middle-income countries	9
Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach	8
Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning	8
Linguistic and thematic differences in written letters of gratitude to God and gratitude toward others	8
Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence	8
Addressing the heterogeneity of resilience scales: a systematic review and development of a unified resilience construct within a standardized resilience framework	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
Pathways to peace: Character strengths for personal, relational, intragroup, and intergroup peace	8
Brief signature strengths use scale: a concise tool for assessing strengths use across life contexts	8
Correction	8
A little appreciation goes a long way: gratitude reduces objectification	7

Anti-cyberbullying interventions at school: comparing the effectiveness of gratitude and psychoeducational programmes	7
Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators	7
Tele-drama therapy for community dwelling older adults with constricted life-space mobility: a randomized controlled trial	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 development of single-item measures of Flourishing: the Brief Scales of Flourishing (BS-F)	7
Existential concerns, culture, context, and calibration: the 4C Model of virtue	7
Intellectual servility, structural influences, and multicultural perspectives: a response to Ballantyne	7
Investigating the effects of Psycho-Behavioral interventions on healthy adolescents’ subjective well-being: a three-level meta-analysis	7
Conclusion to the special issue on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual humility: unifying themes from divergent theories and research programs	7
Can happiness make a house a home?	7
Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward	7
Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take	6
Transdisciplinary participatory action research: how philosophers, psychologists, and practitioners can work (Well) together to promote adolescent character development within context	6
Untangling purpose: Examining the nuanced influence of personal meaning and beyond-the-self orientation on youth mental health in unprecedented times	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
From awe to pro-environmental behavior - a meta-analysis of the relationship between awe and pro-environmental behavior	6
The relations between pleasurable emotions and motivations: a daily diary study	6
Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts	6
Dare to know! The existential costs of a faith in science	6
Positive anxiety: existential authenticity as a pathway to well-being	6
What are the differences between flow and work engagement? A systematic review of positive intervention research	6
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research	6
Does mindfulness matter in the development of character strengths? A RCT study comparing mindfulness-based strengths practice and character strengths-based intervention	6
Martin E. P. Seligman: Realizing human potential	6
Measuring the dynamics of grace at work	6
Martin Seligman: answering the call to help others	6
The network structure of the VIA-120 inventory of strengths: an analysis of 1,255,248 respondents	6