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''The Journal of Positive Psychology'' is a bimonthly
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covering
positive psychology Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, focusing on both individual and societal well-being. It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions...it aims t ...
, including measures of well-being such as life satisfaction, traits such as optimism, work life consequences of resilience, and methods to enhance positive psychological traits. It was established in 2006 and is published by
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. The
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is Robert A. Emmons (
University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
).


Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL,
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/Social & Behavioral Sciences, PsycINFO,
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, and the
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. According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
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of 4.197.


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* Positive psychology journals Routledge academic journals Publications established in 2006 Bimonthly journals English-language journals {{Psych-journal-stub