| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Changes in Prefrontal-Limbic Function in Major Depression after 15 Months of Long-Term Psychotherapy | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 183 |
| 2 | Individual differences in meaning-making: Considering the variety of sources of meaning, their density and diversity | Personality and Individual Differences | 2011 | 170 |
| 3 | Meaning in Life and Self-Control Buffer Stress in Times of COVID-19: Moderating and Mediating Effects With Regard to Mental Distress | Frontiers in Psychiatry | 2020 | 130 |
| 4 | Existential Indifference: Another Quality of Meaning in Life | Journal of Humanistic Psychology | 2010 | 124 |
| 5 | Personality and meaning in life | Personality and Individual Differences | 2006 | 107 |
| 6 | Redesigning work through idiosyncratic deals | European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology | 2014 | 106 |
| 7 | When work strain transcends psychological boundaries: an inquiry into the relationship between time pressure, irritation, work–family conflict and psychosomatic complaints | Stress and Health | 2009 | 94 |
| 8 | A Scoping Review of Moral Stressors, Moral Distress and Moral Injury in Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2022 | 94 |
| 9 | Amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during emotion regulation: A meta-analysis of psychophysiological interactions | Neuropsychologia | 2021 | 87 |
| 10 | Meaning-Making in an Atheist World | Archive for the Psychology of Religion | 2011 | 85 |
| 11 | The associations of supervisor support and work overload with burnout and depression: a cross‐sectional study in two nursing settings | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2016 | 81 |
| 12 | Caution, “normal” BMI: health risks associated with potentially masked individual underweight—EPMA Position Paper 2021 | EPMA Journal | 2021 | 70 |
| 13 | Eating disorders in adolescence: attachment issues from a developmental perspective | Frontiers in Psychology | 2015 | 69 |
| 14 | Spirituality with and without Religion—Differential Relationships with Personality | Archive for the Psychology of Religion | 2012 | 67 |
| 15 | Attachment classification, psychophysiology and frontal EEG asymmetry across the lifespan: a review | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 2015 | 64 |
| 16 | Everyday sadism predicts violent video game preferences | Personality and Individual Differences | 2015 | 64 |
| 17 | Workplace bullying and depressive symptoms: A prospective study among junior physicians in Germany | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2015 | 60 |
| 18 | Pilgrimage today: the meaning-making potential of ritual | Mental Health, Religion and Culture | 2013 | 58 |
| 19 | Attachment and mentalization in female patients with comorbid narcissistic and borderline personality disorder. | Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment | 2014 | 58 |
| 20 | Changing views of emotion regulation and neurobiological models of the mechanism of action of psychotherapy | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience | 2016 | 58 |
| 21 | Individualized and Clinically Derived Stimuli Activate Limbic Structures in Depression: An fMRI Study | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 57 |
| 22 | Meaningful commitment: finding meaning in volunteer work | Journal of Beliefs and Values | 2012 | 57 |
| 23 | The way we refer to ourselves reflects how we relate to others: Associations between first-person pronoun use and interpersonal problems | Journal of Research in Personality | 2013 | 57 |
| 24 | There's no “I” in team: Effects of cooperative video games on cooperative behavior | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2013 | 56 |
| 25 | Physician burnout, work engagement and the quality of patient care | Occupational Medicine | 2017 | 55 |
| 26 | Change of Unresolved Attachment in Borderline Personality Disorder: RCT Study of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 2017 | 55 |
| 27 | Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe): Psychometric Properties and Sociodemographic Findings in a Large Brazilian Sample | Acta De Investigación Psicológica | 2013 | 54 |
| 28 | Psychological Research on Organisational Democracy: A Meta‐Analysis of Individual, Organisational, and Societal Outcomes | Applied Psychology | 2020 | 54 |
| 29 | Is It All about the Higher Dose? Why Psychoanalytic Therapy Is an Effective Treatment for Major Depression | Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy | 2015 | 50 |
| 30 | The Impact of Learning Demands, Work-Related Resources, and Job Stressors on Creative Performance and Health | Journal of Personnel Psychology | 2015 | 46 |
| 31 | Crisis of Meaning Predicts Suicidality in Youth Independently of Depression | Crisis | 2018 | 45 |
| 32 | Brilliant: But What For? Meaning and Subjective Well-Being in the Lives of Intellectually Gifted and Academically High-Achieving Adults | Journal of Happiness Studies | 2017 | 41 |
| 33 | Emotional neglect in childhood shapes social dysfunctioning in adults by influencing the oxytocin and the attachment system: Results from a population-based study | International Journal of Psychophysiology | 2019 | 41 |
| 34 | The Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire in the Norwegian Context: Relations to Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Self-Efficacy | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, The | 2019 | 41 |
| 35 | Effects of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System on Oxytocin and Cortisol Blood Levels in Mothers | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 2016 | 39 |
| 36 | What brings meaning to life in a highly secular society? A study on sources of meaning among Danes | Scandinavian Journal of Psychology | 2018 | 38 |
| 37 | Locus of control moderates the association of COVID-19 stress and general mental distress: results of a Norwegian and a German-speaking cross-sectional survey | BMC Psychiatry | 2021 | 37 |
| 38 | Selection, optimization, and compensation in nursing: exploration of job‐specific strategies, scale development, and age‐specific associations to work ability | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2013 | 36 |
| 39 | Dimensions of Secularity (DoS): An Open Inventory to Measure Facets of Secular Identities | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, The | 2015 | 36 |
| 40 | Cross-Lagged Analyses Between Life Meaning, Self-Compassion, and Subjective Well-being Among Gifted Adults | Mindfulness | 2019 | 36 |
| 41 | Possession and Applicability of Signature Character Strengths: What Is Essential for Well-Being, Work Engagement, and Burnout? | Applied Research in Quality of Life | 2020 | 36 |
| 42 | Neural Correlates of the Appraisal of Attachment Scenes in Healthy Controls and Social Cognition—An fMRI Study | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 2016 | 35 |
| 43 | The Effect of Online Violent Video Games on Levels of Aggression | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 35 |
| 44 | Changes in psychosocial work environment and depressive symptoms: A prospective study in junior physicians | American Journal of Industrial Medicine | 2013 | 34 |
| 45 | The impact of training and working conditions on junior doctors’ intention to leave clinical practice | BMC Medical Education | 2014 | 33 |
| 46 | Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Clinics of North America | 2018 | 32 |
| 47 | Child Maltreatment Is Associated with a Reduction of the Oxytocin Receptor in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells | Frontiers in Psychology | 2018 | 32 |
| 48 | Correlates of sexual initiation among European adolescents | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 32 |
| 49 | Modulation of Gamma Band Activity and Late Positive Potential in Patients with Chronic Depression after Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 2018 | 31 |
| 50 | Structurally Anchored Organizational Democracy | Journal of Personnel Psychology | 2011 | 28 |
