OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Youth & Society is 3. 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
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	15
Bullying Victimization and Weapon Carrying: A Partial Test of General Strain Theory	15
Bidirectional Relationships Between Cyberbystanders’ Roles, Cyberbullying Perpetration, and Justification of Violence	14
Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most	13
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	12
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	12
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	11
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	11
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
Academic Self-esteem as a Buffer Between Negative Youth Experiences and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents	10
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
Exploring the School-Based Support for Youths Who Head Households in Limpopo Province, South Africa	9
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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