Willibald Ruch

Willibald Ruch

Universität Zürich

H-index: 94

Europe-Switzerland

About Willibald Ruch

Willibald Ruch, With an exceptional h-index of 94 and a recent h-index of 68 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universität Zürich, specializes in the field of personality, assessment, positive psychology, humor, character strengths.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Definitional ambiguities in character strengths: A comparative analysis with personality and other psychobiological attributes

Ten dos and don’ts of Character Strengths Research

Applying strength‐based therapeutic recreation for dealing with job stress, work–family conflict, and family–work conflict

Vulnerabilities and Psychological Adjustment Resources in Career Development

The Three-Dimensional Character Strengths Circumplex

Measuring gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in Italy and Canada using PhoPhiKat-30: A multidimensional item response theory and differential item functioning …

Cultural differences in how people deal with ridicule and laughter: Differential item functioning between the Taiwanese chinese and canadian english versions of the PhoPhiKat-45

Cheerfulness

Willibald Ruch Information

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Citations(all)

36598

Citations(since 2020)

16687

Cited By

26077

hIndex(all)

94

hIndex(since 2020)

68

i10Index(all)

311

i10Index(since 2020)

244

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Willibald Ruch Skills & Research Interests

personality

assessment

positive psychology

humor

character strengths

Top articles of Willibald Ruch

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Definitional ambiguities in character strengths: A comparative analysis with personality and other psychobiological attributes

Journal of Research in Personality

Alexander G Stahlmann

Gian Carlo Arbenz

Willibald Ruch

2024/2/3

Ten dos and don’ts of Character Strengths Research

International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology

Willibald Ruch

Alexander G. Stahlmann

2024

Applying strength‐based therapeutic recreation for dealing with job stress, work–family conflict, and family–work conflict

Journal of Employment Counseling

Forough Jafari

Willibald Ruch

Seyedehdorsa Siadati

Somayeh Esmaili

2024

Vulnerabilities and Psychological Adjustment Resources in Career Development

Jérôme Rossier

Ieva Urbanaviciute

Fabian Gander

Jenny Hofmann

Jonas Masdonati

...

2023/1/14

The Three-Dimensional Character Strengths Circumplex

Alexander Georg Stahlmann

Willibald Ruch

Gian Carlo Arbenz

2023/2/2

Measuring gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in Italy and Canada using PhoPhiKat-30: A multidimensional item response theory and differential item functioning …

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Chloe Lau

Francesca Chiesi

Alessandra Fermani

Morena Muzi

Gonzalo del Moral Arroyo

...

2023/8/2

Cultural differences in how people deal with ridicule and laughter: Differential item functioning between the Taiwanese chinese and canadian english versions of the PhoPhiKat-45

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education

Chloe Lau

Taylor Swindall

Francesca Chiesi

Lena C Quilty

Hsueh-Chih Chen

...

2023/1/20

Cheerfulness

Glen Pettigrove

2021/12/20

What’s Your Humor Profile? A Latent Profile Analysis on the State-Trait Model of Cheerfulness as the Temperamental Basis of Humor

Journal of Happiness Studies

Chloe Lau

Catherine Li

Taylor Swindall

Francesca Chiesi

Willibald Ruch

...

2023/8

Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths

The Journal of Positive Psychology

Alexander G Stahlmann

Willibald Ruch

2023/7/4

The utility of the psycholexical approach for identifying military core values: Illustrated in a sample of Swiss career officers and NCOs.

Military Psychology

Nadine Eggimann-Zanetti

Willibald Ruch

Hubert Annen

2023

Replication of the Three-Dimensional Character Strengths Circumplex in English-speaking samples

Alexander Georg Stahlmann

Willibald Ruch

Gian Carlo Arbenz

2023/6/28

Convergence and Psychometric Properties of Character Strengths Measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R.

Journal of Personality Assessment

Valentina Vylobkova

Sonja Heintz

Fabian Gander

Lisa Wagner

Willibald Ruch

2023/1/2

Humour interventions for patients in palliative care—a randomized controlled trial

Supportive Care in Cancer

Lisa Linge-Dahl

Rainer Kreuz

Mieke Stoffelen

Sonja Heintz

Willibald Ruch

...

2023/3

Two of a Kind or Distant Relatives?

Journal of Individual Differences

Willibald Ruch

Valentina Vylobkova

Sonja Heintz

2023/6/1

Evaluation of a Study Protocol of the Application of Humor Interventions in Palliative Care Through a First Pilot Study

Palliative Medicine Reports

Lisa Linge-Dahl

Sonja Heintz

Willibald Ruch

Maria Bley

Eckart von Hirschhausen

...

2023/9/1

Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: evidence from between-and within-person analyses

The Journal of Positive Psychology

Lisa Wagner

Willibald Ruch

2022/10/14

Paragons of Character–Character Strengths and Well-being of Moral, Creative, and Religious Exemplars

Journal of Personality

Fabian Gander

Lisa Wagner

Valentina Vylobkova

André Kretzschmar

Willibald Ruch

2023/1

Associations between personality and humor structure appreciation

Current Psychology

Filip Sulejmanov

Daniel Dostál

Václav Grundman

Willibald Ruch

2023/4/27

Humor Awareness as a Primary Prevention Resource in Organizations for Sustainable Development

Georgia Marunic

Chloe Lau

Willibald Ruch

Annamaria Di Fabio

Donald H Saklofske

2023/8/30

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University of Pennsylvania

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Christopher Peterson

University of Michigan

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Antonio Terracciano

Antonio Terracciano

Florida State University

H-index: 61
Jerome Rossier

Jerome Rossier

Université de Lausanne

H-index: 41
Victor Raskin

Victor Raskin

Purdue University

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