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Alex M. Wood
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 145
Citations - 14651
Alex M. Wood is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Gratitude. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 142 publications receiving 12188 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex M. Wood include University of Stirling & University of Manchester.
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Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration
TL;DR: A new model of gratitude is presented, incorporating not only the gratitude that arises following help from others but also a habitual focusing on and appreciating the positive aspects of life, which has the potential of improving well-being through fostering gratitude with simple exercises.
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How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses.
TL;DR: It is argued that systematic reviews are a key methodology for clarifying whether and how research findings replicate and for explaining possible inconsistencies, and it is called for researchers to conduct systematic reviews to help elucidate whether there is a replication crisis.
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The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale
TL;DR: In this paper, a measure of dispositional authenticity and whether authenticity is related to well-being is presented. But the authors focus on self-alienation, authentic living, and accepting external influence, which is supported with exploratory factor analysis.
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Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between meta-psychological level, where the aim of positive psychology is to redress the imbalance in psychology research and practice, and pragmatic level, which is concerned with what positive psychologists do, in terms of their research, practice and areas of interest.
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The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies
TL;DR: This article examined the direction of the relationships between trait gratitude, perceived social support, stress, and depression during a life transition and found that gratitude seems to directly foster social support and to protect people from stress and depression.