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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems	38
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics	30
Adolescents as Citizen Scientists: Insights Into Their Exposure to Social Media Influencers’ Socio-Political Content	23
Attachments or Affiliations? The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Peer Relationships—A Qualitative Study Among Norwegian High School Students	17
The Transition to In-Person Schooling Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Latinx Adolescents	17
Mechanisms of Driving Adolescents’ Adjustment in Behavior: A Developmental Systems Approach	15
Private Tutoring, Sleep Time, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Students in China	15
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	13
A Rising Tide Does Not Lift All Boats: Gentrification, Racial Turnover, and Youth Educational Outcomes	13
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	13
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	13
Romantic Attachment Security, Emotional Management, and Family Bond in Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence	13
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	12
Comparing the Depressive Health Profiles Among U.S. Adolescents Who Have Been School Disciplined and School Policed: A Person-Centered Approach	12
From “Learn to Return” to “Learn to Leave”: How Urbanization Shapes the Socialization Process of Chinese Rural Youth	12
Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds	11
From Context to Perception to Behavior: Predicting Delinquency With the Parental Support-Perceived Parental Competence Cross-Lag	10
Relations Between Developmental Assets and Youth Gun Violence	9
Childhood Housing Trajectories and Risk for Housing Insecurity in the Transition to Adulthood	9
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors	9
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	9
Active Citizens and Passive Learning: A Qualitative Study of Students’ Perspectives on Citizenship Education Across England and Wales	8
Settings Matter: Examining the Association Between Social Class Discrimination in and Out-of-School, Tobacco Use, and Nicotine Vaping Among Adolescents	8
“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency	8
Distal and Proximal Stressors Associated With Substance Use among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: The Influence of Race	7

“It Makes Them Want to Suffer in Silence Rather Than Risk Facing Ridicule”: Youth Perspectives on Mental Health Stigma	7
The Association Between Parenting by Lying on Mobile Phone Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents: The Perspective of Cognitive-Behavioral Model	7
Bidirectional Associations Between Perceived Social Support and Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Lower Secondary School	7
Discrimination and Risky Health Behaviors: Examining the Association between Sources of Gender Discrimination and Tobacco Use Among Adolescent Girls	7
School-Based Discrimination and Social-Emotional Learning Among Latinx Youth: The Moderating Role of School Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	7
How I Make It Through: An Exploratory Study of the Experiences of Black High School Males in a Predominantly White Community	7
High School Extracurriculars and Altruistic Behavior in Crises: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
“I Feel Like You Don’t Need Dysphoria to be Trans.”: Emerging Understandings of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents	7
Navigating Normativity: How German Youth Discuss Activism in a Global Context	6
Digital Use, Adolescent Mental Health, and Gender: Associations and Pathways Between Digital Engagement and Youth Depressive Symptoms	6
Does the Student Human Rights Ordinance Make a Difference for Schools and Students? Evidence from South Korea	6
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents	6
Adolescent Perceptions of Teen Suicide: Implications from Focus Groups	6
Mediation Analysis of Internalized Homophobia, Self-esteem and Mental Health in Adolescent Sexual Minority Men: A Repeated Measures Study	6
A study Comparing Text-Based WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Interviews to Understand Early School Dropout	6
Self-Disclosure, Self-concept, and Friendship’s Perceived Functions among Aggressive and Popular Adolescents	5
Fear of Missing Out and Sexting Among Adolescents: Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes	5
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Emerging Adults’ Education and Employment	5
From Nature to Nurture: How Does Environmental Education Link With Adolescent Problem Behaviors Through Nature Connectedness and Self-Control	5
Perceptions of STEM Barriers in Adolescence: Examining Math Interest, Science Interest, and STEM Identity at Informal Science Learning Sites	5
Cyberbullying and PIU Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association With Adolescents Relationships	5
The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time	5
Community Gender Norms and Gender Gaps in Adolescent Agency in Nepal	5
Civic Participation and Meaning in Life: Similarities and Differences Across Diverse Youth	5
Chinese Adolescents’ Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities	5
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Adolescent Social Network Positions and Lifetime Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence	5
From Adolescence to Adulthood: Examining Future Orientation Trajectories and Their Influencing Factors Among Serious Juvenile Offenders	5
A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnant in Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina	5
Intersectional Learning: How Black and Latinx Boys Learn About Power and Difference	5
The Effects of Body Image and Physical Fitness on Academic Performance of Chinese Adolescent: A Mediating Role of Mental Health	5
Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces	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
What’s Past Is Prologue: Disciplinary History and Racial Disparities in School Suspension	5
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy	4
Cyber-Ostracism, Depression, and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis	4
Rehabilitating Beyond Walls: The Role of Informal Spaces in Formal Programs among Young Rehabilitators	4
Anime, Apps, and Hormones: Transgender Adolescents Navigating Identity in Contemporary China	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
The Adolescent Self-System and Academic Achievement: Youth Predictors of College Enrollment	4
The Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Problematic Social Media Use	4
“They Slow Me Down”: Peer Relationships, School Fights, and the Criminalization of Black Adolescent Development Through School Discipline Policies	4
Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments	4
Adolescents’ Psychological Resilience in the Context of Self-Control and Psychological Needs: A Qualitative Study	4
Addressing Students’ Educational Aspirations Through Information Provision: Evidence From Ecuador	4
The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities	3
Exploring the Situational Contexts of Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Adolescent Suicidality: A Partial Test of Minority Stress Theory	3
Gendered Youth Time Use in Southeast Asia: A Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Cross-Cohort Comparison	3
Parental Modeling and Normative Influence in Shaping Teenagers’ Phubbing: An Exploratory Study	3
The Impact of Cyberbullying Victimization on Cyberbullying Among Chinese Junior High School Students: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	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
Frequency of Adequate Sleep and Different Forms of Delinquency Across Adolescence: Evidence From Nationally Representative Samples of Youth	3
Exploring Profiles of Adolescent Contributions: A Person-Centered Approach Within the 7C Model of Positive Youth Development	3
Moderated Mediating Effects of Earthquake Experiences of Adolescents in the Relationship between Hope, Meaning in Life and Gratitude	3
The Problematization of Violence Against Trans and Gender-Diverse People: Gender-Bashing and its Structural Relations With Cis-Heteronormativity in Spanish Adolescents	3
Parental Psychological Control and Adolescents’ Boredom: The Mediating Roles of Core Self-Evaluation and Achievement Motivation and the Moderating Role of Teacher Autonomy Support	3
A Sense of Security and Cohesion: Exploring Social Support and Mental Health in Adolescence	3
Latent Profile Analysis of Excessive Internet Use in Adolescents: Gender-Specific Pathways to Depression Through Loneliness	3
An Examination of Ecological Factors Predicting Depressed Mood Among Adolescents	3
Wealth and Health: On the Relationship Between Housing Prices and Children’s Mental Health	3
“Being Open About Struggle”: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience	3
Analysis of Police Intake Data of First-Time and Repeat Runaway 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
Promotive Factors Within Neighborhood, Family, and School Contexts for Adolescents Living in an Urban, High-Burden Community	3
Social Interaction Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use Among Rural-Urban Adolescents in China: A Moderated Moderated-Mediation Model	3
Initiating an Intrauterine Device: How Adolescent and Young Adult Women Exercise Autonomy in the Decision-Making Process	2
The Impacts of Firearm Violence Exposure on Youth in the U.S: Building the Evidence and the Solutions	2
Association Between Bullying Victimization Experience and Self-Esteem of Multicultural Youth in South Korea: The Moderating Role of Social Support Profiles	2
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Racism Breaks Spirits: Discrimination and BIPOC Adolescent Mental Health	2
Poverty Stifles Ambition: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Perceived Social Fairness in the Future Orientation of Adolescents from Financially Disadvantaged Families	2
Popularity Goals and Bullying Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Roles of Popularity Status and Cognitive Empathy	2
Effect of Paternal Emotional Warmth on Attitudes Toward Political Symbols: A Serial Mediating Model	2
The Multicultural Politics of Opportunity: A Comparative Analysis of the Occupational Aspirations of Immigrant Adolescents	2
Beyond Voice and Advocacy: Participatory Narrative Re-imagination Among Former Child Soldiers in Colombia	2
“No One is Going to Listen to a Bunch of Kids”: Youth Requests for Radical Listening and Epistemic Justice	2
Smartphone Dependency, Happiness, and Social Class Awareness Among Middle School Students in South Korea	2
Experiences and Perspectives of Kosova Youth Across Learning Contexts	2
From ACEs to Action: Optimism as a Mediator of Justice System Involvement in Late Adolescence	2
The Associations of Sociocultural Pressure, Emotional States, Self-control, and Emotional Eating in Adolescents	2
Relationships Among Romantic Myths, Tolerant Attitudes Toward Abuse, and Teen Dating Violence Victimization: The Moderator Role of Gender	2
Examining the Role of School and Neighborhood Disorder in Early Adolescents’ Future Orientation Development	2
“It Goes under the Radar!”: In/Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism from a Canadian Youth Perspective	2
On Outness: Validity Evidence of the Outness Inventory for Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adolescents	2
“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
Exploring Culturally Adaptive Definitions and Measurement of Positive Youth Development among Second-generation Chinese American Youth: A Qualitative Study	1
Farewell Editorial	1
School Burnout and Emotional and Psychological Well-Being in Secondary School Students: Mediating Roles of Resilience and Hope	1
Remaining Hopeful During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of NGOs in Filling the Social Support Gap for Vulnerable Children	1
Identifying Father Involvement Profiles Among Chinese Rural Children Using Latent Profile Analysis: The Relations to Depressive Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Parental Relationship	1
Happy or Unhappy? Mental Health Correlates of Receiving Sexts and Unsolicited Sexual Images	1
Pressure to Attend a Prestigious College: High School Students and Parents’ Differing Definitions of Success	1
Settling In: The Role of Immigrant Generation in School, Anxiety, and Peer-Related Acculturation Challenges for Seventh Grade Students	1
Relations Between Violence Exposure and Gun Carriage: Identifying Protective Factors Among African American Youth Living in Low-Income Urban Communities	1
Network Brokerage and Self-Rated Popularity Among Lao School-Based Children: Findings From Primary Survey Data	1
Parental Autonomy Support Prevent Digital Addiction by Reducing Adolescents’ Negative Identity Perceptions? A Longitudinal Study	1
Does Civic Education in Secondary School have an Impact on Political Interest of Grade 8 Students? Evidence from NEPS	1
Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth: Does the Location of the Perception Matters?	1
Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Adolescent Cannabis Use in Washington State	1
A Latent Profile Analysis of the Consensual and Non-Consensual Sexting Experiences among Canadian Adolescents	1
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	1
“You are the Father”: Investigating the Relationship Between Adolescent Fatherhood and Suicide Attempt	1
Self-Esteem Mediates the Effect of Yoga-Induced Mindfulness on Adolescents’ Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Pro-Social Behavior	1
Exploring Key Factors and Conceptualizations for Well-Being in Lower Secondary Education: Embracing Student Voices in the Well-Being Debate	1
From Vision to Reality: A Descriptive Analysis of Adolescents’ and Perceived Mothers’ Aspirations for Higher Education	1
Effects of the Internet Access Environment on Utilization of Tele-Rehabilitation for Adolescents With Visual or Hearing Disabilities	1
The Link Between Bullying Victimization, Maladjustment, Self-Control, and Bullying: A Comparison of Traditional and Cyberbullying Perpetrator	1
Long-term Effects of Material Deprivation on Family Relationships Among Disadvantaged Young People	1
Parental Control, Peer Relationship Quality, Depression and Aggression: In Variable-Centered and Person-Centered Approach	1
Social Interaction Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use: The Mediating Roles of Self-concept Clarity and Mood Regulation in Chinese Adolescents	1
Longitudinal Relationships Between Financial Stress, Career Related Optimism, and Psychological Distress During Emerging Adulthood in Australia	1
The Role of School Context Factors for Gender Role Attitudes: General and Differential Associations Between Female and Male Adolescents	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
“Powerless, But Not Helpless”: Exploring critical consciousness among adolescents in Germany	1
Physical Disabilities in Adolescence and Educational Attainment in Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Expectations, Discipline, and School Relationships	1
The Intervention Effect of Online Mindfulness Training in Alleviating Youths’ Test Anxiety	1
Young People’s Recommendations for Accessible, Engaging, and Relevant COVID-19 Research Communication in Australia	1
Understanding the Impact of Context on Ambition: Gender Role Conformity Negatively Influences Adolescent Boys’ Ambition Scores in an Educational Context	1
Patterns of Adolescent Peer Affiliation among Youth At-Risk of Maltreatment	1
The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness	1
Harsh Fathering Longitudinally Predicts Adolescents’ Internet Gaming Addiction via Unfulfilled Psychological Need	1
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators	1