OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Youth & Society 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Transition to In-Person Schooling Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Latinx Adolescents	49
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems	30
Mechanisms of Driving Adolescents’ Adjustment in Behavior: A Developmental Systems Approach	27
Attachments or Affiliations? The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Peer Relationships—A Qualitative Study Among Norwegian High School Students	23
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics	22
Private Tutoring, Sleep Time, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Students in China	20
Bullying Victimization and Weapon Carrying: A Partial Test of General Strain Theory	15
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	15
Bidirectional Relationships Between Cyberbystanders’ Roles, Cyberbullying Perpetration, and Justification of Violence	14
Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most	13
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	12
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	12
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	11
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	11
Academic Self-esteem as a Buffer Between Negative Youth Experiences and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents	10
Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds	10
From Context to Perception to Behavior: Predicting Delinquency With the Parental Support-Perceived Parental Competence Cross-Lag	10
Exploring the School-Based Support for Youths Who Head Households in Limpopo Province, South Africa	9
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors	9
Creative and Expressive Arts in a Young Adult Problem-Solving Court and Its Influence on Participant Experience and Outcomes	9
Distal and Proximal Stressors Associated With Substance Use among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: The Influence of Race	8
School-Based Discrimination and Social-Emotional Learning Among Latinx Youth: The Moderating Role of School Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	8
“It Makes Them Want to Suffer in Silence Rather Than Risk Facing Ridicule”: Youth Perspectives on Mental Health Stigma	8
Race Differences in Youths’ Attitudes Toward Arming Teachers: Investigating the Role of Procedural Justice	8
“I Feel Like You Don’t Need Dysphoria to be Trans.”: Emerging Understandings of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents	8

Liminal Participation: Young People’s Practices in the Public Sphere Between Exclusion, Claims of Belonging, and Democratic Innovation	8
Adolescent Perceptions of Teen Suicide: Implications from Focus Groups	7
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents	7
What About the Kids? Examining the Visitation-Recidivism Relationship Among Incarcerated Juveniles	7
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review	7
A study Comparing Text-Based WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Interviews to Understand Early School Dropout	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: European Rural NEETs: A Snapshot	7
Chinese Adolescents’ Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities	6
Fear of Missing Out and Sexting Among Adolescents: Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes	6
Community Gender Norms and Gender Gaps in Adolescent Agency in Nepal	6
Cyberbullying and PIU Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association With Adolescents Relationships	6
Needs of Youth and Parents From Multi-Problem Families in the Search for Youth-Initiated Mentors	6
Self-Disclosure, Self-concept, and Friendship’s Perceived Functions among Aggressive and Popular Adolescents	6
The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time	6
Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces	5
A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnant in Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina	5
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy	5
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Adolescent Social Network Positions and Lifetime Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence	5
Pathways from School Belonging to Problematic Online Game Use among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Physical Exercise	5
Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth	5
“They Slow Me Down”: Peer Relationships, School Fights, and the Criminalization of Black Adolescent Development Through School Discipline Policies	4
Social Norms of Pregnancy and Pregnancy Attitudes Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness	4
Social Capital and the Higher Education Academic Achievement: Using Cross-Classified Multilevel Models to Understanding the Impact of Society on Educational Outcomes	4
The Impact of Education on Youth Employability: The Case of Selected Southeastern European Countries	4
The Mediation of Family Context and Youth Depressive Symptoms by Adolescent Emotion Regulation	4
Youth in Group Home Care: An Investigation of Negative Peer Influence and Youth Antisocial Behavior	4
Cyber-Ostracism, Depression, and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis	4
Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments	4
The Adolescent Self-System and Academic Achievement: Youth Predictors of College Enrollment	4
The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Perceived Health and Wellbeing of Young Australian Sport and Physical Activity Participants	4
Assessing Longitudinal Impacts of Mentor Role on Youth Outcomes	4
“In the Moment I Wanted to Kill Myself, and Then After I Didn’t”: A Qualitative Investigation of Suicide Planning, Method Choice, and Method Substitution Among Adolescents Hospitalized Following a Sui	4
Addressing Students’ Educational Aspirations Through Information Provision: Evidence From Ecuador	4
“Being Open About Struggle”: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience	3
The Impact of Cyberbullying Victimization on Cyberbullying Among Chinese Junior High School Students: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	3
The Problematization of Violence Against Trans and Gender-Diverse People: Gender-Bashing and its Structural Relations With Cis-Heteronormativity in Spanish Adolescents	3
Shifting Culture and Minds: Immigrant-Origin Youth Building Critical Consciousness on Social Media	3
What Helps Muslim American Youth to Thrive? The Role of Maternal Promotion of Volitional Functioning and Religiosity in their Civic Engagement	3
Parental Modeling and Normative Influence in Shaping Teenagers’ Phubbing: An Exploratory Study	3
The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities	3
A Service Model for Self-Directed Learning of NEET Youth at the Local Government Level	3
Initiating an Intrauterine Device: How Adolescent and Young Adult Women Exercise Autonomy in the Decision-Making Process	3
Promotive Factors Within Neighborhood, Family, and School Contexts for Adolescents Living in an Urban, High-Burden Community	3
Do Gender-Based Pathways Influence Mental Health? Examining the Linkages Between Early Child Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Psychological Well-being among Young Ethiopian Women (18–24 years	3
Exploring the Situational Contexts of Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Adolescent Suicidality: A Partial Test of Minority Stress Theory	3
An Examination of Ecological Factors Predicting Depressed Mood Among Adolescents	3
Frequency of Adequate Sleep and Different Forms of Delinquency Across Adolescence: Evidence From Nationally Representative Samples of Youth	3
Does Gender Matter? The Mediating Role of Gender Attitudes on the Associations Between Grandparenting Styles and Adolescent Depression Among Skipped-Generation Families in Rural China	3
Outreach Practices of Public Employment Services Targeted at NEET Youth in Poland	3
Why are Some Victims Also Bullies? The Role of Peer Relationship Management and Anger Regulation in Traditional Bullying	3

The Associations of Sociocultural Pressure, Emotional States, Self-control, and Emotional Eating in Adolescents	3
Multisystemic Resilience: Learning from Youth in Stressed Environments	3
Social Interaction Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use Among Rural-Urban Adolescents in China: A Moderated Moderated-Mediation Model	3
The Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Problematic Social Media Use	3
Moderated Mediating Effects of Earthquake Experiences of Adolescents in the Relationship between Hope, Meaning in Life and Gratitude	3
Future Time Perspective and Self-Control Mediate the Links between Parental Autonomy Support and Adolescents’ Digital Citizenship Behavior	2
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Racism Breaks Spirits: Discrimination and BIPOC Adolescent Mental Health	2
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural NEETs: Common Patterns and Differences in Various EU Countries	2
On Outness: Validity Evidence of the Outness Inventory for Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adolescents	2
Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth: Does the Location of the Perception Matters?	2
Linking Teacher Injustice, Conscientiousness, and Academic Dishonesty via Classroom Connectedness: A Moderated-Mediation Model	2
Staying Safe or Staying Popular? Popularity and Reputation Concerns Predict Adherence and Adjustment During the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The Multicultural Politics of Opportunity: A Comparative Analysis of the Occupational Aspirations of Immigrant Adolescents	2
Examining the Role of School and Neighborhood Disorder in Early Adolescents’ Future Orientation Development	2
The Impacts of Firearm Violence Exposure on Youth in the U.S: Building the Evidence and the Solutions	2
“You are the Father”: Investigating the Relationship Between Adolescent Fatherhood and Suicide Attempt	2
Popularity Goals and Bullying Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Roles of Popularity Status and Cognitive Empathy	2
The Association of Substance Use Before Sex and Condomless Sex: The Moderating Effects of Sexual Risk Behaviors, Perceived Sex Approval, and HIV/STI Risk Perception Among Youth	2
Violence Exposure, Aggressive Cognitions & Externalizing Behaviors among Colombian Youth: The Moderating Role of Community Belongingness	2
Relationships Among Romantic Myths, Tolerant Attitudes Toward Abuse, and Teen Dating Violence Victimization: The Moderator Role of Gender	2
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression and Anxiety Among Jordanian Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study	2
“It Goes under the Radar!”: In/Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism from a Canadian Youth Perspective	2
Smartphone Dependency, Happiness, and Social Class Awareness Among Middle School Students in South Korea	2
Remaining Hopeful During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of NGOs in Filling the Social Support Gap for Vulnerable Children	2
School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries	2
Personality Underpinnings of Identity: The Mediating Role of Internal Dialogs	2
Poverty Stifles Ambition: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Perceived Social Fairness in the Future Orientation of Adolescents from Financially Disadvantaged Families	2
The Implications of Executive Functioning on Community Adversity and Violence and Mental Health Outcomes	2
The Role of School Context Factors for Gender Role Attitudes: General and Differential Associations Between Female and Male Adolescents	1
Belongingness and National Belonging among Youth in Hong Kong	1
School Burnout and Emotional and Psychological Well-Being in Secondary School Students: Mediating Roles of Resilience and Hope	1
Relations Between Violence Exposure and Gun Carriage: Identifying Protective Factors Among African American Youth Living in Low-Income Urban Communities	1
Delayed Romantic Experience: Association of Romantic Relationship and Weight Change Patterns over 7 Years among Taiwanese Adolescents	1
The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness	1
Impact of Internet Pornography on Chinese Teens: The Third-Person Effect and Attitudes Toward Censorship	1
Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Adolescent Cannabis Use in Washington State	1
Impoverished Single Mother Households and Violent Delinquency: Bonding, Negative, and Bridging Social Capital	1
Swimming Against the Tide: Young Informal Traders’ Survival Strategies in a Competitive Business Environment in Zimbabwe	1
The Intervention Effect of Online Mindfulness Training in Alleviating Youths’ Test Anxiety	1
Happy or Unhappy? Mental Health Correlates of Receiving Sexts and Unsolicited Sexual Images	1
Self-Esteem Mediates the Effect of Yoga-Induced Mindfulness on Adolescents’ Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Pro-Social Behavior	1
Ecosystemic and Situational Determinants in the Onset of Youth-Perpetrated Sexual Offending	1
“You Selling?”: Snack Sales and the Construction of Deviance in a High School	1
Understanding the Impact of Context on Ambition: Gender Role Conformity Negatively Influences Adolescent Boys’ Ambition Scores in an Educational Context	1
The Construction of Shame and Pride: A Grounded Theory Model of Identity, Emotions, and Wellbeing among Sexual Minority Adolescents	1
Social Contact and Family Contact for Youth with Disabilities	1
Reputational Status Dynamics from a Mixed Methods Perspective: Coolness and Popularity in a Hungarian Primary School Sample	1
The Link Between Bullying Victimization, Maladjustment, Self-Control, and Bullying: A Comparison of Traditional and Cyberbullying Perpetrator	1
Longitudinal Relationships Between Financial Stress, Career Related Optimism, and Psychological Distress During Emerging Adulthood in Australia	1
Network Brokerage and Self-Rated Popularity Among Lao School-Based Children: Findings From Primary Survey Data	1
Young People’s Recommendations for Accessible, Engaging, and Relevant COVID-19 Research Communication in Australia	1
Preparing the Next Generation for STEM: Adolescent Profiles Encompassing Math and Science Motivation and Interpersonal Skills and Their Associations With Identity and Belonging	1
Harsh Fathering Longitudinally Predicts Adolescents’ Internet Gaming Addiction via Unfulfilled Psychological Need	1
The Longitudinal Effects of Age of Alcohol Initiation on School Outcomes	1
Familial Mentor Support and Black Youths’ Connectedness to Parents Across Adolescence	1
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators	1
Determinants of School Discipline: Examination of Institutional Level Factors Impacting Exclusionary Sanctions	1
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Assault-injured Youth: Parallel Process Models Addressing Comorbidity	1
Patterns of Adolescent Peer Affiliation among Youth At-Risk of Maltreatment	1
Effects of the Internet Access Environment on Utilization of Tele-Rehabilitation for Adolescents With Visual or Hearing Disabilities	1
Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing: Youth and Organizational Responses	1
A Latent Profile Analysis of the Consensual and Non-Consensual Sexting Experiences among Canadian Adolescents	1
“We Know About Things Too”: Exploring the Labors of Love Involved in Cultivating Youth Voice in Online Youth Civic Engagement Programs With Youth of Color	1
Neither Resiliency-Trait nor Resilience-State: Transactional Resiliency/e	1