DOI: 10.1177/00315125241253946 ISSN: 0031-5125
Bibliometric Mapping of Psychological Flexibility Research: Trends and Future Directions
Walton Wider, Nicholas Tze Ping Pang, Jiaming Lin, Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi, Leilei Jiang, Jem Cloyd M. TanucanIn this article, we offer an exhaustive analysis of academic work on psychological flexibility using bibliometric techniques. We identify emerging trends in a dataset of 3535 scholarly articles from the Web of Science database. We highlight key publications, map out the field’s intellectual framework, and anticipate future research avenues through co-citation and co-word analytics. The co-citation assessment revealed five distinct clusters, while the co-word analysis showed three. Although research regarding psychological flexibility has gained recent popularity, there remains a need for more scholarly initiatives to achieve a nuanced understanding of this subject.