The Research Hotspot and Frontier Trend of Positive Psychological Character in China in Recent 15 Years —Based on Co-word Analysis and Burst Words Detection
To evaluate the hotspots and trend of the internal researches on positive
psychological characters in the past 15 years, using bibliometric analysis. By aid
of Bibexcel, Excel, Ucinet, CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Matlab and SPSS software, this
article analyzes the hot research issues of 900 papers from CNKI from 2005 to 2019.
These analyses include co-word analysis, cluster analysis, burst words detection. This
study found the following: The main research topics include four aspects: the study
of positive psychology and college education, the research of positive mental health
education in primary and secondary schools, the research of group counseling to
cultivate positive psychological characters and the research of cultivation of positive
psychological quality of children and adolescents. The frontier theme centering
round the study of positive psychological characters have experienced four stages:
the emergence period, the practice period of mental health education in colleges and
universities, the practice period of mental health education in primary and secondary schools and the vigorous period of development. The study suggests that the further
research should further improve the influence, improve the scientific and depth,
expand and deepen the research field.