OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Behavioral Development 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Loneliness from young adulthood to old age: Explaining age differences in loneliness	112
Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment	77
Fitting latent growth models with small sample sizes and non-normal missing data	37
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it	19
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	18
Rejection sensitivity and the development of social anxiety symptoms during adolescence: A five-year longitudinal study	17
Prosocial behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during interactions with their typically developing siblings	16
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development	15
Validation of motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional subscales using the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments: An application of multidimensional item factor analysis	15
This is what loneliness looks like: A mixed-methods study of loneliness in adolescence and young adulthood	15
Global perspectives on physical and nonphysical discipline: A Bayesian multilevel analysis	14
The longitudinal associations between perfectionism and academic achievement across adolescence	13
Maternal achievement-oriented psychological control: Implications for adolescent academic contingent self-esteem and mathematics anxiety	13
Psychometric properties of the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) in a longitudinal population-based sample	12
Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in 14 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Examining discrimination and familism values as longitudinal predictors of prosocial behaviors among recent immigrant adolescents	11
Solitude and affect during emerging adulthood: When, and for whom, spending time alone is related to positive and negative affect during social interactions	11
Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	11
Maternal education and early childhood education across affluent English-speaking countries	11
Cross-cultural measurement of social withdrawal motivations across 10 countries using multiple-group factor analysis alignment	10
A comparison of dyadic and social network assessments of peer influence	10
Trust, forgiveness, and peace: The influence of adolescent social identity in a setting of intergroup conflict	10
Confirmatory composite analysis in human development research	10
Validation and generalizability of machine learning prediction models on attrition in longitudinal studies	10

Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults	9
Parental incarceration affects children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes: A longitudinal cohort study of children aged 9 to 13 years	8
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience	8
Solutions for latent growth modeling following COVID-19-related discontinuities in change and disruptions in longitudinal data collection	8
Gender differences in inhibitory control as assessed on simple delay tasks in early childhood: A meta-analysis	8
Examining the predictors of prosocial behavior in young offenders and nonoffenders	8
The relation between defending, (dis)liking, and the classroom bullying norm: A cross-sectional social network approach in late childhood	8
The neural bases of multimodal sensory integration in older adults	8
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development	7
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs	7
Developmental goals during the transition to young adulthood	7
The Japanese empathy questionnaire (EmQue) for preschool children: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender	7
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	7
Unpacking the misfit effect: Exploring the influence of gender and social norms on the association between aggression and peer victimization	7
Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization	7
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	7
The role of parent–child interactions in the association between mental health and prosocial behavior: Evidence from early childhood to late adolescence	7
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse	7
Experiences of solitude in adulthood and old age: The role of autonomy	6
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement	6
Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life	6
Adolescents suppress emotional expression more with peers compared to parents and less when they feel close to others	6
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship	6
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	5
On the importance of being agreeable: The impact of personality traits on prosocial lying in children	5
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement	5
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	5
An ecological latent class model of adolescent risk and protective factors: Implications for substance use and depression prevention	5
Fostering children’s social pretend play competence and social skills through play tutoring: What is the mechanism of change?	5
Cultural contributors to negative emotionality: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium	5
Causal mediation in developmental science: A primer	4
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ)	4
Choking under pressure: Does it get easier with age? How loneliness affects social monitoring across the life span	4
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	4
Profiles of climate change distress and climate denialism during adolescence: A two-cohort longitudinal study	4
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications	4
Longitudinal associations between attachment and forgivingness within romantic relationships	4
Climate change and resilience: Developmental science perspectives	4
Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International	4
Study length, change process separability, parameter estimation, and model evaluation in hybrid autoregressive-latent growth structural equation models for longitudinal data	3
What do I want to be? Predictors of communal occupational aspirations in early to middle childhood	3
Family relationships and family predictors of psychological distress in emerging adult college students: A 3-year study	3
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion	3
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience	3
In the face of adversity: Refugee children’s traumatic stressors, trust, and prosocial behavior	3
Are adolescent leaders prosocial and aggressive?	3
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems	3
Introduction to the Special Section: Prosocial development in risky and vulnerable contexts	3
Is more information always better? Associations among parents’ online information searching, information overload, and self-efficacy	3
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society	3

A longitudinal study of early pretense: Metarepresentational or not	3
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	3
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	3
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development	2
The association between school burnout, school connectedness, and bullying victimization: A longitudinal study	2
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds	2
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	2
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence	2
The impact of time of entrance to center-based care on children’s general, language, and behavioral development	2
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults	2
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children	2
Behavioral inhibition as an early life predictor of callous-unemotional traits	2
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	2
Setting societal engagement goals during adolescence amplifies the impacts of political interest on political activities during young adulthood	2
Youth’s own political interest can explain their political interactions with important others	2
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	2
Dynamic change meets mechanisms of change: Examining mediators in the latent change score framework	2
Big news stories and longitudinal data collection: A prominent child sexual abuse case negatively affects parents’ attitudes toward male caregivers	2
Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support	2
“Because I said so!”: Mothers’ conventional conflict justifications related to resolution and child behavior problems and temperamental reactivity	1
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	1
Young children’s representation of people who are elsewhere—Or dead	1
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox	1
The structure of mental well-being and its relationship with generativity in middle adulthood and the beginning of late adulthood	1
Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behaviors	1
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	1
Evaluating a longitudinal multilevel mediation model of self-concept clarity, hope, and subjective well-being in adolescents	1
Adolescent personality development as a longitudinal marker for burnout and happiness in emerging adulthood	1
Parents’ cultural beliefs about maladaptive behavior in young children: A comparison across two cultures	1
Development and initial validation of the parent-report Academic Behavior Scale in a Chinese context	1
Children’s understanding of mixed emotions across cultures	1
Validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in younger adults	1
Linking fine motor skills with theory of mind in school-age children	1
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood	1
Supporting youth emotionally when communicating about climate change: A self-determination theory approach	1
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind	1
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers	1
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?	1
Parent and teacher involvement and adolescent academic engagement: Unique, mediated, and transactional effects	1
Timing is everything: Developmental changes in the associations between intergroup contact and bias	1
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level	1
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence	1
Little pranksters: Inhibitory control mediates the association between false belief understanding and practical joking in young children	1
The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: A 21-day diary study	1
The role of perceived social support in mitigating the impact of parenting stress on children’s effortful control	1
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model	1