| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 教育心理與諮商學系碩士班 === 102 === The Journal of Positive Psychology（JPP）is one of positive psychology-related journals, few of which in SSCI. JPP is the only one, which covers all topics in the discipline. This study uses content analysis for 290 studies published in the JPP from 2006 to 2014/1 in order to show the phenomena and development of positive psychology-related studies. The data, after obtained from JPP’s digitalized files on the Internet, were compiled and analyzed based on theme, discipline, and objective of every researcher. The findings of this study as follows:
1. Emotional variable, the most discussed variable in JPP, is a trend.
2. Some variables in each theme are investigated more frequently than the others.
3. Special issues in JPP play a role of the inviter who introduces the emerging topics in positive psychology.
4. Studies in JPP cross variant disciplines but the amount in each discipline is a gap.
5. The vast majority of studies are discussing correlation among variables. This study discusses previous research results and presents suggestions for future researches.
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