Margaret L. Kern

19.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
120 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Margaret L. Kern is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Margaret L. Kern has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Social Psychology, 41 papers in Clinical Psychology and 27 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Margaret L. Kern's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (44 papers), Mental Health via Writing (15 papers) and Personality Traits and Psychology (15 papers). Margaret L. Kern is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (44 papers), Mental Health via Writing (15 papers) and Personality Traits and Psychology (15 papers). Margaret L. Kern collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Margaret L. Kern's co-authors include Howard S. Frıedman, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Lyle Ungar, Angela Duckworth, J. Corey Butler, Lea Waters, H. Andrew Schwartz, Kelly‐Ann Allen, Michał Kosiński and David Stillwell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Margaret L. Kern

116 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
    2013 1.1k citations H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt et al. profile →
  2. The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing
    2016 770 citations J. Corey Butler, Margaret L. Kern International Journal of Wellbeing profile →
  3. A meta-analysis of the convergent validity of self-control measures
    2011 739 citations Margaret L. Kern et al. profile →
  4. What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis
    2016 548 citations Kelly‐Ann Allen, Margaret L. Kern et al. profile →
  5. Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review
    2016 486 citations Elizabeth Seabrook, Margaret L. Kern et al. JMIR Mental Health profile →
  6. Automatic personality assessment through social media language.
    2014 466 citations Gregory Park, H. Andrew Schwartz et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  7. Doing the Right Thing: Measuring Well-Being for Public Policy
    2011 447 citations Margaret L. Kern et al. International Journal of Wellbeing profile →
  8. A multidimensional approach to measuring well-being in students: Application of the PERMA framework
    2014 428 citations Margaret L. Kern, Lea Waters et al. The Journal of Positive Psychology profile →
  9. Detecting depression and mental illness on social media: an integrative review
    2017 394 citations Margaret L. Kern, Lyle Ungar et al. profile →
  10. Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research
    2021 369 citations Kelly‐Ann Allen, Margaret L. Kern et al. profile →
  11. Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality
    2015 322 citations Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Hansen Andrew Schwartz et al. profile →
  12. Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review
    2018 243 citations Gavin R. Slemp, Margaret L. Kern et al. Motivation and Emotion profile →
  13. Closed- and open-vocabulary approaches to text analysis: A review, quantitative comparison, and recommendations.
    2021 82 citations Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Margaret L. Kern et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Margaret L. Kern Australia 48 4.9k 3.6k 2.5k 2.2k 2.1k 120 11.7k
Daniel J. Bauer United States 45 3.8k 0.8× 4.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 3.0k 1.5× 156 15.7k
Peter J. Rentfrow United Kingdom 49 5.1k 1.0× 4.2k 1.1× 4.8k 1.9× 1.6k 0.8× 3.2k 1.5× 126 15.1k
Catrin Finkenauer Netherlands 50 5.1k 1.0× 3.7k 1.0× 5.1k 2.1× 2.5k 1.2× 2.3k 1.1× 181 13.6k
Laura A. King United States 52 7.0k 1.4× 3.5k 1.0× 2.3k 0.9× 2.9k 1.3× 2.5k 1.2× 136 11.9k
Deborah A. Kashy United States 49 8.0k 1.6× 5.2k 1.4× 6.0k 2.4× 1.4k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 162 16.1k
Sanjay Srivastava United States 26 4.6k 0.9× 4.5k 1.2× 3.2k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 2.8k 1.4× 92 11.6k
Wendy Johnson United Kingdom 49 3.4k 0.7× 4.5k 1.2× 2.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.6× 4.7k 2.3× 189 13.3k
Timothy D. Wilson United States 53 7.1k 1.4× 2.6k 0.7× 6.3k 2.5× 3.7k 1.7× 4.3k 2.1× 131 22.3k
Simine Vazire United States 44 3.4k 0.7× 4.1k 1.1× 3.8k 1.5× 1.5k 0.7× 2.8k 1.4× 98 11.2k
Ellen J. Langer United States 51 4.1k 0.8× 4.0k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 1.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 150 14.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2024). Exploring long‐term outcomes of a peer support programme for parents* of children with disability in Australia. Child Care Health and Development. 50(2). e13236–e13236. 1 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2024). The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 20(1). 59–71. 2 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2022). More than a feeling: Perceptions of wellbeing in regular Ashtanga Yoga practitioners. International Journal of Wellbeing. 12(2). 88–113. 4 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2020). A qualitative exploration of individual differences in wellbeing for highly sensitive individuals. Palgrave Communications. 6(1). 26 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2020). Strengthening University Student Wellbeing: Language and Perceptions of Chinese International Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(15). 5538–5538. 24 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2020). Subjective Wellbeing and the Social Responsibilities of Business: an Exploratory Investigation of Australian Perspectives. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 16(5). 1881–1908. 11 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., Paige Williams, Rachel Colla, et al.. (2019). Systems informed positive psychology. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 15(6). 705–715. 121 indexed citations
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Seabrook, Elizabeth, Margaret L. Kern, Ben Fulcher, & Nikki S. Rickard. (2018). Predicting Depression From Language-Based Emotion Dynamics: Longitudinal Analysis of Facebook and Twitter Status Updates. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20(5). e168–e168. 73 indexed citations
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Slemp, Gavin R., Margaret L. Kern, Kent Patrick, & Richard M. Ryan. (2018). Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review. Motivation and Emotion. 42(5). 706–724. 243 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2018). The student voice in well-being: a case study of participatory action research in positive education. Educational Action Research. 27(2). 173–196. 63 indexed citations
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Allen, Kelly‐Ann, Margaret L. Kern, Dianne Vella‐Brodrick, & Lea Waters. (2017). School Values: A Comparison of Academic Motivation, Mental Health Promotion, and School Belonging With Student Achievement. 34(1). 31–47. 32 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L., et al.. (2017). The benefit mindset: The psychology of contribution and everyday leadership. International Journal of Wellbeing. 7(1). 1–11. 23 indexed citations
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Butler, J. Corey & Margaret L. Kern. (2016). The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing. International Journal of Wellbeing. 6(3). 1–48. 770 indexed citations breakdown →
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Seabrook, Elizabeth, Margaret L. Kern, & Nikki S. Rickard. (2016). Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review. JMIR Mental Health. 3(4). e50–e50. 486 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duggan, Katherine A., Chandra A. Reynolds, Margaret L. Kern, & Howard S. Frıedman. (2014). Childhood sleep duration and lifelong mortality risk.. Health Psychology. 33(10). 1195–1203. 14 indexed citations
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Park, Gregory, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, et al.. (2014). Automatic personality assessment through social media language.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108(6). 934–952. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kern, Margaret L., Johannes C. Eichstaedt, H. Andrew Schwartz, et al.. (2013). From “Sooo excited!!!” to “So proud”: Using language to study development.. Developmental Psychology. 50(1). 178–188. 48 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Hansen Andrew, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Eduardo Blanco, et al.. (2013). Choosing the Right Words: Characterizing and Reducing Error of the Word Count Approach. Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. 1. 296–305. 16 indexed citations
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Kern, Margaret L. & Howard S. Frıedman. (2008). Do conscientious individuals live longer? A quantitative review.. Health Psychology. 27(5). 505–512. 289 indexed citations

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