OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Psychologist is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between phubbing and social relationships among Turkish college students: mediating roles of self-control and empathy	29
Supporting LGBTQA+ peoples’ recovery from sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts	23
Wellbeing programs for culturally and linguistically diverse population in Australia: barriers and improvements	17
Urgent call for research into imagery rescripting to reduce suicidal mental imagery: clinical research considerations	16
The role of emotion beliefs in depression, anxiety, and stress	14
Understanding the provision of psychological interventions for psychosis in an Australian mental health service: a mixed methods study	13
Digital game addiction, classroom engagement, sleep deprivation and mind-wandering: tests of mediating relationships with Turkish adolescents	13
The professional identity of Australian counselling psychologists: a reflexive thematic analysis	13
The role of psychologists in managing mental health comorbidities in adults with neurological disorders	13
A qualitative investigation into perceptions of scientist-practitioner competence within supervision during psychology training programmes	12
Factorial and construct validity of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in an Australian sample	12
A theory-based examination of the predictors of mental health help-seeking in young men	11
Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic: the job demands and job resources associated with telework outcomes	11
Personal recovery in psychological interventions for bipolar disorder: a systematic review	11
Co-sleeping fathers’ perceptions of sleep quality with intentional and unintentional co-sleeping	10
The psychosocial experience of cancer: a meta-analysis of Australian rural versus urban populations	10
A mixed methods pilot study assessing adaptations to the ESTEEM program for Australian same sex attracted men	9
Exploring the effect of gender and culture on the relationship between self-silencing and depressive symptoms	9
Building consensus between lived experience and professional stakeholders on mental health research priorities: a Delphi study	8
You’re virtually a psychologist: enhancing professional psychology education through virtual client simulations	8
Investigating professional identity formation of postgraduate clinical psychology students	8
The Fears of Compassion in Sport Scale: a short, context-specific measure of fear of self-compassion and receiving compassion from others validated in UK athletes	8
Cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ): a study in Iran and the USA	7
Social representations of therapist self-care and well-being: a thematic analysis of peak body media	7
Working with the nerves: applicant perspectives on the inclusion of an OSCE as part of postgraduate clinical psychology admissions	7

A qualitative study of sporting club stakeholder perspectives of a Mental Fitness Charter for South Australian sport	7
Who are you going to talk to? Help-seeking for partner violence among refugee-background young women in Australia	7
Resilience, self-compassion, and indices of psychological wellbeing: a not so simple set of relationships	7
Lose yourself: feared self, emotion regulation, and obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder symptomatology	6
A national study of the psychological theories and therapies covered within clinical psychology training programs in Australia	6
We need something completely different: catalysing new innovations in teaching	6
A systematic review of the thoughts and feelings that are associated with suicidal behaviours in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young peoples	6
Psychological testing in Australia: what does the profession tell us?	6
Cyberstalking and well-being: mediating and moderating roles of problematic social media use and use patterns	6
Family violence education for post-graduate psychology trainees: a longitudinal mixed-method survey evaluating self-reported knowledge and confidence levels	6
Perceptions of mental health and illness amongst Australian Ismaili Muslim youth	6
The Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Youth Version: national data from a clinical sample of Aboriginal youth	6
Network psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians: a hierarchical exploratory graph analysis	6
Correction	5
Measuring the coach’s compassion through the eyes of their athletes: validity of The Compassionate Coach Scale as perceived by the adolescent athletes	5
The Greek Australian neuropsychological normative study: tests & norms for Greek Australians aged 70-85 years	5
Jandu Yani U (for all families): evaluating Indigenous Triple P, a community-tailored parenting support program in remote Aboriginal communities	5
Eco-psychology: a critical paradigm in the climate emergency	5
Session frequency in routine psychology practice and perspectives on session scheduling: a mixed-methods study of clinician attitudes and practices	5
Why do some therapists manage uncertainty better than others? A study of individual differences in therapists’ affective responses to uncertainty	5
Satisfaction with psychiatrist, psychologist and other mental health support services among people living with bipolar disorder in Australia	5
Different motivations for volunteering are associated with different outcomes for Australian animal welfare volunteers: a mixed-methods analysis	5
“The only man on the mat”: yoga as a therapeutic pathway for men’s mental health	4
Cultural interventions that target mental health and wellbeing for First Nations Australians: a systematic review	4
Experience of and recommendations for creating new rural and remote psychology placements	4
Outcomes from a pilot study to evaluate Phase 1 of a two-phase approach to treat women with complex trauma histories	4
“That weird kid without parents”: a qualitative analysis of identity following bereavement due to parental intimate partner homicide in Australia	4
Self-compassion and psychological mindedness in depressed Turkish adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury	4
Physical and psychological wellbeing among Australian and New Zealand patients seeking fertility treatment during COVID-19	4
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) delivered in the school setting with teacher involvement: a co-produced intervention for students with conduct problems	4
Trait empathy and the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia	4
Climate change and mental health: postgraduate psychology student and program coordinator perspectives from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Dysfunctional beliefs associated with hair pulling disorder: an examination in clinical versus non-clinical groups	4
What do private practice referrers value about neuropsychology assessment?	4
The mediating role of behavioural automaticity and intention on past to future bootcamp attendance	4
Using physical activity guidelines to examine associations between self-reported physical activity and depression symptoms in adolescent girls	4
Aversion to happiness mediates effects of meaning in life, perfectionism, and self-esteem on psychological distress in Turkish adults	4
Conceptualising Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara mental health beliefs	4
Postgraduate students’ perceptions of simulation-based learning in professional psychology training	3
The relationships between empathy, collective action and asylum seeker policy support	3
Australian counselling psychologists’ perceptions of the similarities and differences between clinical and counselling psychology	3
Translation and validation of the Swedish version of the Self-Compassion Scale for Youth	3
Association between sleep quality and social media use in Australian adults	3
Effects of clinical placements in residential aged care settings on geropsychology competencies among provisional psychologists in Australia	3
Assessing alexithymia in adolescents: psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire in high school students	3
Mental health literacy in Australian schools: evaluation of the Australian adapted youth education and support program	3
Do the Australian Master of Organisational Psychology programs prepare graduates for work overseas?	3
Tackling implicit and explicit stigma towards voice hearing in clinical psychology students before it enters the workplace: a preliminary brief educational intervention	3
Loneliness and health in older adults: a multivariate analysis of Spanish Red Cross users living alone	3
Self-compassion as a moderator between clinical perfectionism and psychological distress	3

Group supervision is a distinct supervisor competency: empirical evidence and a brief scale for supervisory practice	3
The mental health of elite athletes in developing nations of the greater Oceania region	3
Aussie sleep snapshot: sleep health in young adulthood in Australia	3
Psychometric examination of the Japanese version of Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory	3
Promoting psychological interventions in psychosis: the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis	3
A network cross-cultural validation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian adults	2
Psychology service model redesign: direct to psychology and stepped care in the multidisciplinary sleep service	2
Goal motives in depression and anxiety: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties	2
Project Yarn Circle: development and pilot evaluation of a cultural connection suicide prevention program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people	2
She is like me: a qualitative exploration of body image ideals and the young woman psychologist working with eating disorders	2
Tracking trainee development: preliminary validation of a tool designed to evaluate clinical psychology competencies over time	2
BEST-Foundations: a mixed methods exploration of the feasibility of a novel intervention treating internalising symptoms in children	2
Sleep quality and general distress in individuals with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: the mediating role of emotion regulation	2
Self-efficacy as a mediator between psychologists’ technology affinity and telehealth satisfaction	2
A stress-coping analysis of ‘stranded’ Australians seeking repatriation during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Who, what, where, when and where to now? The landscape of cognitive assessment in Australia	2
Exploring the complex relationship between anxiety and dissociation in a clinical population	2
Psychologists’ perceptions of assessing and treating trauma-exposed clients	2
Evaluating emotion regulation ability across negative and positive emotions: psychometric properties of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) in American adults and Iranian adults	2
Health and wellbeing at the intersection of gender modality and ethnicity in Australia	2
Occurrence of potentially traumatic events, type, and severity in undergraduate students	2
Treatment preferences and help seeking experiences of Australian adults with insomnia	2
Neuropsychological assessment of older Australian immigrant populations: considerations for clinical practice	2
Cognitive processing of HIV stigma and its association with posttraumatic growth: a reflexive thematic analysis	2
Weaving Wayapa and cognitive behaviour therapy: applying research topic yarning to explore a cultural interface between Western and Indigenous psychology practice in Australia	2
Self-reported prevalence of sleep and mental health disorders in current and former athletes: a preliminary cross-sectional investigation of help-seeking behaviours	2
What counts? A Delphi consensus-based approach to interpreting accreditation standards for Direct Client Activities in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology programs	2