OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Genetic Psychology is 1. 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
Profiles of Peer-Rejected Individuals: Their Attitudes toward the Intellectual Disability Population and the Mediating Role of Resilience	77
Evaluating Links between Social Withdrawal Motivations and Indices of Psychosocial Adjustment among Norwegian Emerging Adults	33
Understanding Children’s Accuracy in Recognizing Facial Expressions of Pain	29
The Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Self-Esteem in the Relationships Between Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Impostor Feelings: A Multiple Mediation Model by Parent and Child Gender	27
Parenting Styles and Moral Disengagement in Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Attachment Experiences	21
Preliminary Findings on the Use of Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Qatar: A Case Series Study	20
Risk Factors for Substance Use across the Lifespan	15
The Intervening Roles of Shame and Guilt in Relations between Parenting and Prosocial Behavior in College Students	15
Responses to Infantile Cuteness Explain the Link between Autistic Traits and Reduced Maternal Attachment	13
Parents’ General Emotion Beliefs Matter: Exploring the Links to Parental Emotion Socialization Beliefs and Practices	13
Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Depression: The Role of Parental Involvement and Adolescent Grit	12
Contextual Influences on Happiness Across Life Stages: A Commentary on Baytemir and Şimşir Gökalp (2025)	11
The Role of Participant Immigrant Background and Gender in Middle School Youth’s Responses to Actual and Hypothetical Experiences of Bias-Based Bullying	11
Gender-Specific Patterns of Relations among Acculturative Stress, Family Processes, and Prosocial Behaviors in Latinx Youth	11
Development of Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions with Different Eye and Mouth Cues in Japanese People	11
The Direction of Incongruence Matters: Low Maternal and High Paternal Marital Satisfaction Linked to Higher Depression in Emerging Adult Daughters	10
Parental Emotion Socialization and Children’s Emotional Skills and Socio-Emotional Functioning in Early Childhood in Türkiye and the United States	10
Adolescent Peer Relationship Difficulties, Prosociality, and Parental Emotion Socialization: Moderating Roles of Adolescent Gender	9
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Social Transactions in the Classroom and Academic-Related Outcomes: Gender Matters	8
Thriving Amidst Adversity. Insights from an Interview with Professor Rodrigo Cárcamo	8
Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescents’ Academic Shame: The Chain Mediator Effect of Self-Control and Gratitude	8
Associations Between Maternal Negative Affectivity and Young Children’s Disruptive Behavior Problems: The Mediating Effect of Callous-Unemotional Traits	8
Comparison of Adulthood Criteria Endorsed by Emerging Adults and Their Parents in Greece: A Mixed-Method Study	8
Coping Strategies and Social Skills of School-Aged Children: Association with Performance-Based Measures and Behavioral Ratings of Executive Function	7
Women Should Stay Home: Saudi Children’s and Adolescents’ Reasoning About Husband’s Authority Over Wife	7

Are Adolescents With Higher Self-Esteem More Prosocial? Exploring the Moderating Effect of Self-Compassion in Different Genders	7
Moderating Effects of Mindfulness in the Relation between Bullying Victimization and Sleep Disturbance in Chinese Children: Sex Differences	7
Personality Functioning and Parenting Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Parental Identity	7
Nurturing Kindness in a Complex World: Professor Tina Malti’s Developmental Insights on Socioemotional Development	7
Enhancing the Symbolic Abilities of Preschoolers: Do Non-Symbolic Representations Outweigh Visual Features?	7
Empathy and Theory of Mind in Preschoolers	6
Exploring Psychosocial Traits Across Italian Current Gamers, Non-Current Gamers, and Non-Gamers	6
Relations of Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Psychological (Mal)Adjustment with Forgiveness and Vengeance among Bangladeshi Young Adults	5
Exploring the Quality of School Experiences in Children Raised by Two Lesbian Mothers in Italy Through Children’s Narratives	5
Longitudinal Relation Between Maladaptive Parenting and Deviant Peer Affiliation: Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Effects and Highlighting Sex Differences	5
A Parallel Process Growth Curve Analysis of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement	5
Insights from a Developmental Psychologist: Going Against the Grain	4
The Relationship Between Empirical Avoidance, Anxiety, Difficulty Describing Feelings and Internet Addiction Among College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	4
Development in Context: Commonalities and Specificities	4
Belonging and Smartphone Addiction Among Adolescents: The Role of Meaningful Living	4
Celebrity Worship Among Adolescents is Driven by Neuroticism, Avoidant Identity Style, and Need to Belong	4
A Short-Term Longitudinal Examination of the Relation of Forms of Antipathy Relationships to Children’s Loneliness, Peer Optimism, and Peer Sociability Behaviors	4
Teacher-Assessed Linguistic and Social Abilities in Chinese Children’s Reading Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study	4
One-Hundred and Thirty-One Years of Developmental Science Published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology	4
Links between Best Friendship, Romantic Relationship, and Psychological Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood	4
Child Cognitive Flexibility and Maternal Control: A First Step toward Untangling Genetic and Environmental Contributions	4
What Children and Adolescents Know and Need to Learn about Cancer	4
Direct and Indirect Paths between Parental Marital Conflict and Children’s Sibling Conflict in Chinese Families	4
The Influence of Genetic and Environmental Factors on Anxiety among Chinese Adolescents: A Twin Study	4
Relative Effectiveness of Morphological Analysis Training and Context Clue Training on Multidimensional Vocabulary Knowledge	3
The Buffering Role of Community Self-Efficacy in the Links between Family Economic Stress and Young Adults’ Prosocial Behaviors and Civic Engagement	3
The Impact of Childhood Abuse on Friendship Quality Among Chinese University Students: The Mediating Role of Self-Disclosure and the Moderating Role of Empathy	3
Does the Frontal Brain Electrical Activity Mediate the Effect of Home Executive Function Environment and Screen Time on Children’s Executive Function?	3
Childhood Shyness and Negative Social Cognitions in Emerging Adulthood: Adolescent Negative Peer Experiences as Moderators	3
The Effects of Genetic Changes and Neuroinflammation on Loneliness Feelings and Social Isolation: A Systematic Review	3
A Kind Mind: Enhancing Socio-Emotional Skills in German Preschool Children Through the Mindfulness-Based Kindness Curriculum	3
Remembered Parental Rejection and Psychological Maladjustment in Turkish Adults: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Rejection Sensitivity	3
The Chain Mediating Effect of Anxiety and Inhibitory Control and the Moderating Effect of Physical Activity Between Bullying Victimization and Internet Addiction in Chinese Adolescents	3
Relations among Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Forgiveness and Vengeance: A Comparison between Pakistani Madrassa and Public School Students	3
Longitudinal Exploration of Binding Ability across Early Childhood: The Differential Contribution of Hits and False Alarms	3
Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Students with Disabilities Inclusion in Nursing Education in the United Arab Emirates	3
Bullying Victimization and Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescents: The Role of Relative Deprivation and Anxiety	3
Ingroup Positivity and Outgroup Negativity Jointly Motivate Toddlers’ Social Behavior	3
Four-Year-Olds Share General Knowledge and Use Generic Language When Teaching	3
Mothers’ Emotional Expressiveness and Preschoolers’ Social Skills: The Roles of Emotional Display Rules and Gender	2
Neuroticism and Adolescent Problematic Mobile Social Media Use: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Exploring Young Children’s Number Order and Hierarchical Inclusion Concepts Through Modified Piagetian Tasks	2
The Impact of Parental Background on the Big Five Traits and Intelligence: Evidence from a Twin Based Study	2
The Line of Emotion Dysregulation and Need Frustration from Parents to Adolescents: The Role of Parental Psychological Control	2
Maternal Education, Home Environment and Chinese Primary School Children’s Academic Performance: Longitudinal Results	2
Factors Affecting Problematic Internet Use: Rejectful Parental Attitudes During Childhood	2
The Impact of Authentic Pride on Verbal Divergent Thinking in Middle School Students: The Roles of Need for Cognition and Prosocial Tendencies	2
Community Violence Exposure and Bullying in Mexican Adolescents. The Mediating Role of Moral Emotions	2
Teacher–Student Interaction, Student–Student Interaction and Social Presence: Their Impacts on Learning Engagement in Online Learning Environments	2
Shared Environment – Different Genes: Speech-Language Development in a Pair of Dizygotic Twins with and Without MECP2 Mutation	2

Longitudinal Relation between Harsh Punishment and Psychoticism among Chinese Early Adolescents: Disentangling between‑ and within‑Family Effects	2
Predictors of Coping in Adolescence: The Influence of Temperament and Parenting Styles	2
Wayfinding in Children: A Descriptive Literature Review of Research Methods	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Peer Relationships across Diverse Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Contexts	1
Pay Attention to What Your Fingers Scroll: The Roles of Doomscrolling and Psychological Adjustment Between Adolescents’ Problematic Social Media Use and Psychological Distress	1
The Effect of Mother’s Mediation on Sibling Conflict Among Chinese Children	1
Do Human Figure Drawing IQ Scores Match Wechsler IQ Scores? A Reared-Apart Twin Study	1
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Behavioral Problems: The Moderating Roles of Emotion Regulation and Teacher-Student Relationship Quality	1
Discovering the Role of Gesture in Language and Cognition: An Interview with Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow	1
Facebook Addiction and High School Students’ Sleep Quality: The Serial Mediation of Procrastination and Life Satisfaction and the Moderation of Self-Compassion	1
What Motivates Action for Gender Equality among Emerging Adult Women? The Importance of Critical Reflection, Efficacy, and Feminist Identity	1
Maternal Education Potentially Moderates the MAOA uVNTR Effects on Externalizing Behavior in Black South African Children	1
Role of the Sibling Relationship to Reduce the Negative Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Wellbeing in Adulthood	1
The Relationship Between Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Bodily Distress Syndrome: The Mediating Role of Somatoform Dissociation	1
Adolescents and Young Adults’ Participation in Pro-Environmental Movements: A Systematic Review	1
Lack of Father-Love, Higher Stress Perception? Exploring the Potential of Mindfulness and Emotional Factors in Alleviating the Impact	1
Psychological Distress Among Malaysian University Students: The Protective Roles of Hope, Optimism, Resilience, and Self-Efficacy	1
Coping in Anger Episodes: Developmental Differences and Self-Efficacy Beliefs	1
Children’s Mental Health Trajectories Across Cultures and the Buffering Effect of the Early Family Environment: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies in Early Childhood	1
Understanding Academic Dishonesty in University Settings: The Interplay of Dark Triad Traits and Moral Disengagement	1
Examining a Conceptual Model of Maternal and Paternal Warmth, Emotion Regulation and Social Competence among Preadolescent Children in Malaysia	1
Perceived Social Support and Self-Control as Mediators Between Cumulative Family Risk and Sports Engagement	1
Difficulties in the Expression of Emotions in Preschool Children: Relations with Language and Temperament	1
Relation of Person-Centered Peer Behavior Profiles to Individual, Relationship, and Group Measures of Peer Social Competence	1
Relations among Memories of Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Psychological (Mal)Adjustment, Forgiveness, and Vengeance among Iranian Adults	1
Links Between Academic Stress and Prosocial Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Maternal Support	1
Brief Report: The Me Beyond the Mirror: Exploring the Developmental Correlates of the Multidimensional Self	1
Gratitude and Social Generativity Among Young Adults: The Role of Sex and Age	1
Relationship between Parenting Style and Peer Relationships during Early Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Parental Mentalizing	1
Childhood Environment, Intrinsic Goals, and Parental Autonomy Support in Chinese College Students	1
Memories of Parental Acceptance and Rejection Predict Forgiveness and Vengeance in the Muslim World: Introduction and Overview	1
Emotion-related Processes Between Parents and Adolescents: Evidence for Bidirectional Effects over Time	1
School Burnout and Mind Wandering among Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Internet Addiction and the Moderating Role of Resilience	1
The Run Against Social Inequality: Developmental Studies from the Global South	1
Juxtaposing Well-Being and Social Support on Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress: A Comparative Study of Bhutanese and Malaysian Adults	1
Interrelations Among Adolescents’ Family Connections, Solitude Preferences, Theory of Mind and Perceptions of Academic and Work Competence	1
Correlates of Conscientiousness: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study	1
Children’s Future-Oriented Cognition and Family Characteristics: How Similar are Children’s and Parents’ Future-Oriented Cognition?	1
The Social Value of Sadness: A Pathway to Sympathy and Prosocial Behavior in Middle-Childhood	1
Relations between Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Forgiveness/Vengeance as Mediated by Psychological Adjustment among Egyptian Adults	1
Understanding Links between Pandemic-Related Racial Attitudes and Out-Group Prosocial Behaviors	1
Adolescent Social Competence: Effects of Parent Emotion Socialization and Adolescent Emotion Regulation	1
The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation on Shyness and Internalizing Behavior of Turkish Preschool Children	1
Social Avoidance and Social Adjustment in Young Chinese Children: The Moderating Effect of Screen Time	1
Moral Prioritization and Consistency in Adolescents’ Moral Decision-Making: The Role of Moral Identity Abstraction	1