| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 4,655 |
| 2 | Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1996 | 3,522 |
| 3 | Racial Differences in Physical and Mental Health | Journal of Health Psychology | 1997 | 3,401 |
| 4 | Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: Preliminary data in healthy, White women. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 2,768 |
| 5 | The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): An instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1998 | 2,759 |
| 6 | Job demands–resources theory: Taking stock and looking forward. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2017 | 2,592 |
| 7 | Emotional regulation in the workplace: A new way to conceptualize emotional labor. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 2,309 |
| 8 | A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions. | Health Psychology | 2008 | 2,089 |
| 9 | Optimism, coping, and health: assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies | Health Psychology | 1985 | 1,927 |
| 10 | Stages of change and decisional balance for 12 problem behaviors. | Health Psychology | 1994 | 1,916 |
| 11 | Enhancing Treatment Fidelity in Health Behavior Change Studies: Best Practices and Recommendations From the NIH Behavior Change Consortium. | Health Psychology | 2004 | 1,879 |
| 12 | Effective techniques in healthy eating and physical activity interventions: A meta-regression. | Health Psychology | 2009 | 1,775 |
| 13 | Consequences associated with work-to-family conflict: A review and agenda for future research. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 1,758 |
| 14 | Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1996 | 1,609 |
| 15 | Social Support and Patient Adherence to Medical Treatment: A Meta-Analysis. | Health Psychology | 2004 | 1,583 |
| 16 | Prospective prediction of health-related behaviours with the Theory of Planned Behaviour: a meta-analysis | Health Psychology Review | 2011 | 1,572 |
| 17 | Job Resources Buffer the Impact of Job Demands on Burnout. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2005 | 1,518 |
| 18 | The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1998 | 1,499 |
| 19 | Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 1,487 |
| 20 | No security: A meta-analysis and review of job insecurity and its consequences. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2002 | 1,354 |
| 21 | Incivility in the workplace: Incidence and impact. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2001 | 1,325 |
| 22 | The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2007 | 1,284 |
| 23 | Reconceptualizing the work–family interface: An ecological perspective on the correlates of positive and negative spillover between work and family. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 1,277 |
| 24 | Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease. | Health Psychology | 1988 | 1,263 |
| 25 | Development of four self-report measures of job stressors and strain: Interpersonal Conflict at Work Scale, Organizational Constraints Scale, Quantitative Workload Inventory, and Physical Symptoms Inventory. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1998 | 1,258 |
| 26 | A meta-analysis of work–family conflict and various outcomes with a special emphasis on cross-domain versus matching-domain relations. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2011 | 1,134 |
| 27 | Perceptions of safety at work: A framework for linking safety climate to safety performance, knowledge, and motivation. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 1,121 |
| 28 | Ecological momentary interventions: Incorporating mobile technology into psychosocial and health behaviour treatments | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2010 | 1,090 |
| 29 | The precaution adoption process. | Health Psychology | 1988 | 1,077 |
| 30 | Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women | Health Psychology | 2000 | 1,017 |
| 31 | Effects of occupational stress management intervention programs: A meta-analysis. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2008 | 990 |
| 32 | Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status. | Health Psychology | 1982 | 949 |
| 33 | Time to retire the theory of planned behaviour | Health Psychology Review | 2014 | 940 |
| 34 | The Contemplation Ladder: Validation of a measure of readiness to consider smoking cessation. | Health Psychology | 1991 | 923 |
| 35 | Long-term maintenance of weight loss: Current status. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 918 |
| 36 | Demographic and attitudinal determinants of protective behaviours during a pandemic: A review | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2010 | 918 |
| 37 | The relative efficacy of avoidant and nonavoidant coping strategies: A meta-analysis. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 915 |
| 38 | Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 900 |
| 39 | Validation of susceptibility as a predictor of which adolescents take up smoking in the United States. | Health Psychology | 1996 | 879 |
| 40 | Longitudinal studies in organizational stress research: A review of the literature with reference to methodological issues. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1996 | 879 |
| 41 | "The very best of the millennium": Longitudinal research and the demand-control-(support) model. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2003 | 855 |
| 42 | Theoretical explanations for maintenance of behaviour change: a systematic review of behaviour theories | Health Psychology Review | 2016 | 851 |
| 43 | On the costs and benefits of emotional labor: A meta-analysis of three decades of research. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2011 | 849 |
| 44 | Evaluating the contribution of interpretative phenomenological analysis | Health Psychology Review | 2011 | 833 |
| 45 | The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure. | Health Psychology | 2020 | 826 |
| 46 | Religious involvement and mortality: A meta-analytic review. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 824 |
| 47 | Theories of behaviour and behaviour change across the social and behavioural sciences: a scoping review | Health Psychology Review | 2015 | 822 |
| 48 | Understanding associations among race, socioeconomic status, and health: Patterns and prospects. | Health Psychology | 2016 | 777 |
| 49 | Why it won't happen to me: Perceptions of risk factors and susceptibility. | Health Psychology | 1984 | 772 |
| 50 | Transformational leadership and psychological well-being: The mediating role of meaningful work. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2007 | 771 |
| 51 | Cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention decreases the prevalence of depression and enhances benefit finding among women under treatment for early-stage breast cancer. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 767 |
| 52 | Posttraumatic growth following breast cancer: A controlled comparison study. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 752 |
| 53 | Effects of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients: A meta-analysis of randomized experiments. | Health Psychology | 1995 | 748 |
| 54 | A meta-meta-analysis of the effect of physical activity on depression and anxiety in non-clinical adult populations | Health Psychology Review | 2015 | 745 |
| 55 | Affect, risk, and decision making. | Health Psychology | 2005 | 741 |
| 56 | From ideas to efficacy: The ORBIT model for developing behavioral treatments for chronic diseases. | Health Psychology | 2015 | 739 |
| 57 | Ten-year outcomes of behavioral family-based treatment for childhood obesity. | Health Psychology | 1994 | 738 |
| 58 | The impact of job crafting on job demands, job resources, and well-being. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2013 | 738 |
| 59 | Loneliness, social isolation, and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults. | Health Psychology | 2011 | 729 |
| 60 | Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 727 |
| 61 | Chronic psychological stress and the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines: A glucocorticoid-resistance model. | Health Psychology | 2002 | 717 |
| 62 | Priming effects of television food advertising on eating behavior. | Health Psychology | 2009 | 715 |
| 63 | A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach | Health Psychology Review | 2016 | 711 |
| 64 | Testing a conservation of resources model of the dynamics of emotional labor. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2002 | 696 |
| 65 | Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 693 |
| 66 | Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 687 |
| 67 | Risk factors for binge eating onset in adolescent girls: A 2-year prospective investigation. | Health Psychology | 2002 | 683 |
| 68 | Physical activity and sedentary behavior: A population-based study of barriers, enjoyment, and preference. | Health Psychology | 2003 | 682 |
| 69 | Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A Two-year Longitudinal Study | Journal of Health Psychology | 2004 | 676 |
| 70 | A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviour | Health Psychology Review | 2015 | 669 |
| 71 | The impact of changing attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy on health-related intentions and behavior: A meta-analysis. | Health Psychology | 2016 | 667 |
| 72 | The relationship between safety climate and safety performance: A meta-analytic review. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2006 | 664 |
| 73 | The yellow brick road and the emerald city: Benefit finding, positive reappraisal coping and posttraumatic growth in women with early-stage breast cancer. | Health Psychology | 2003 | 653 |
| 74 | Standardized, individualized, interactive, and personalized self-help programs for smoking cessation. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 649 |
| 75 | Consequences associated with work-to-family conflict: a review and agenda for future research | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 646 |
| 76 | Social relationships, social support, and patterns of cognitive aging in healthy, high-functioning older adults: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 643 |
| 77 | Current issues relating to psychosocial job strain and cardiovascular disease research. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1996 | 642 |
| 78 | Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: A randomized, controlled trial. | Health Psychology | 2011 | 636 |
| 79 | Personal and environmental factors associated with physical inactivity among different racial–ethnic groups of U.S. middle-aged and older-aged women. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 634 |
| 80 | Are interventions theory-based? Development of a theory coding scheme. | Health Psychology | 2010 | 634 |
| 81 | Social-cognitive predictors of health behavior: Action self-efficacy and coping self-efficacy. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 627 |
| 82 | The stages and processes of exercise adoption and maintenance in a worksite sample. | Health Psychology | 1992 | 626 |
| 83 | Toward a theory-based analysis of behavioral maintenance. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 625 |
| 84 | Stages of change and decisional balance for 12 problem behaviors | Health Psychology | 1994 | 625 |
| 85 | Impact of positive psychological capital on employee well-being over time. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2010 | 617 |
| 86 | Burnout and work engagement: A thorough investigation of the independency of both constructs. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2010 | 609 |
| 87 | Switching Off Mentally: Predictors and Consequences of Psychological Detachment From Work During Off-Job Time. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2005 | 597 |
| 88 | Hostility and health: Current status of a psychosomatic hypothesis. | Health Psychology | 1992 | 596 |
| 89 | Patterns, correlates, and barriers to medication adherence among persons prescribed new treatments for HIV disease. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 594 |
| 90 | Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease | Health Psychology | 1988 | 594 |
| 91 | Health-related quality of life measurement for evaluation research and policy analysis. | Health Psychology | 1982 | 587 |
| 92 | The precaution adoption process | Health Psychology | 1988 | 580 |
| 93 | Using the Job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) to investigate affective responses to work stressors. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2000 | 577 |
| 94 | Common-sense models of illness: The example of hypertension. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 570 |
| 95 | A validity and reliability study of the coping self-efficacy scale | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2006 | 569 |
| 96 | Prevalence of depression during the COVID-19 outbreak: A meta-analysis of community-based studies | International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology | 2021 | 559 |
| 97 | Social support and adjustment to cancer: Reconciling descriptive, correlational, and intervention research. | Health Psychology | 1996 | 555 |
| 98 | An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy. | Health Psychology | 2006 | 555 |
| 99 | The destructiveness of laissez-faire leadership behavior. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 2007 | 555 |
| 100 | Psychological adaptation and birth outcomes: The role of personal resources, stress, and sociocultural context in pregnancy. | Health Psychology | 1999 | 552 |
