International Journal of Behavioral Development

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language69
What’s best about best friends: Higher-ranked friend nominations are more stable and more likely to be reciprocated than lower-ranked nominations42
Early life grandmother caregiving trajectories and child development: A longitudinal study40
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark35
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study29
Bias of retrospective reporting to combat missingness in longitudinal research26
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries24
Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal food insecurity in childhood and child hair cortisol20
Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years19
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways18
A scoping review of the role of mindful parenting in youth’s emotional, behavioral, and social adjustment, coping, and emotion regulation18
Psychometric Evidence of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review17
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging17
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children17
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens16
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use16
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence15
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood13
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model13
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development13
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting13
Personality disorder in young people: Development, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment12
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox12
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention11
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions11
The Moderating Role of Child Temperament in the Face of Parental Distress During Covid-19: Associations with Long-Term Social-Emotional Functioning11
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents11
Early-life family relationships, children’s mental health trajectories, and their prospective associations with adolescent distrust and social isolation11
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency9
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development9
The link between co-rumination and mood problems in victimized adolescents: A daily diary study9
Should we turn a deaf ear or take responsibility? The bystander effect in helping behavior of young children9
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents9
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society8
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude8
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood8
Occupational and familial long-term effects of gender role attitudes8
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures7
Cross-lagged relationship between interpersonal closeness, early language skills and emotion understanding among toddlers7
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change7
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts7
The promotion of independence and interdependence in parent–child interactions across two cultures: Associations with maternal socialization goals7
The five Cs as a model of positive human development: Extending a model of positive youth development to young and middle-aged adults7
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents6
Maternal discipline in the moment: Within-person fluctuations in maternal self-efficacy, attributions, and intended disciplinary responses in the context of challenging toddler behavior6
Parenting approaches and feelings of autonomy among adolescents in two cultures6
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents6
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence6
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years6
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices6
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts6
Temperament, Prosociality, and Cultural Differences in Declarative Pointing: A Multi-Method Study6
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study6
Classroom social status norms and bullying dynamics: A latent profile analysis of popularity, likability, and rejection norms5
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence5
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school5
Individual differences in retirement savings: The role of future self-continuity and numeracy5
Young White children’s allocation and punishment behaviors toward White and Black peers: Individual and parental factors5
Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies predicted early relationship skills: Children’s forgiveness as a mediator5
Child-to-parent violence and parent mental health: A systematic review5
Parents’ social comparisons online, distress, and self-efficacy: A longitudinal examination of predictors and effects5
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting5
Improved responsive caregiving and home learning environment through a relational home visitation program: Delayed control group comparison4
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind4
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence4
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring4
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study4
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security4
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples4
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses4
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning4
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher4
The effects of youth civic participation on well-being: Results from a seven-wave longitudinal study4
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood4
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia4
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas3
Perceiving expectations for active aging in the context of age-related gains and losses3
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?3
Children’s subjective socioeconomic status and their sharing decisions: The role of the recipient’s neediness3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis3
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale3
The role of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal engagement as mechanisms between intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood3
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects3
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers3
Fathers matter—the relationship between paternal parenting and children’s externalizing and internalizing problems: A systematic review3
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis3
Longitudinal Paths Between Parenting, Internalizing Symptoms, and Different Forms of Prosocial Behavior3
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement3
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement3
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months3
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality3
Theory-of-mind training improves children’s resistance to being lured away by strangers3
Biopsychosocial pathways from early adversity to depression: Potential mechanisms and implications for intervention3
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level3
Editorial coda3
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence3
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents3
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later2
Rage, revenge, reward, and recreation: Validating short-form measures of adolescents’ aggression across offline and online contexts2
Climate change and resilience: Developmental science perspectives2
Components of socioeconomic status differentially predict development of cool versus hot executive function in young children2
Examining goal re-engagement as a mediator of longitudinal associations between awareness of age-related change and vitality in midlife and older adulthood2
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics2
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis2
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study2
Harnessing peer influence: A summary and synthesis of social network and peer-led intervention research2
Political violence exposure and youth aggression in the context of the social ecological systems and family stress models: A four-wave prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian youth2
Longitudinal associations between preschool children’s theory of mind, emotion understanding, and positive peer relationships2
Stability and changes in loneliness profiles across adolescence: The effects of intraindividual characteristics on the transitions across time2
Do fear of victimization and importance of being popular predict victim-defending and bully-following behaviors?2
New evidence for a visuo-spatial cumulative rehearsal strategy in children’s working memory2
Psychological correlates of crush experiences during early adolescence: Features of the crush experience matter2
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience2
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind2
Longitudinal associations of self-control with subjective well-being and psychological well-being: The mediating roles of basic psychological need satisfaction and self-authenticity2
The adolescent dysregulation profile and its association with educational, occupational, and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood2
Too easy, too hard, or just right: Lifespan age differences and gender effects on task difficulty choices2
Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behaviors2
The forms and functions of parental control and parental warmth across cultures: Evidence for commonality and specificity2
Predictive and dynamic development relationship between adolescents’ basic psychological need frustration and problematic internet use: A longitudinal study2
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children2
How classmates’ evaluation of and behavior toward (victimized) children affects their well-being: An examination of implicit and explicit processes1
Friend loss exacerbates adjustment difficulties among shy children1
Young children’s representation of people who are elsewhere—Or dead1
The impact of ignoring lags on developmental science: A re-analysis of meta-analyses using lag as moderator1
A longitudinal exploration of pandemic stress and family adaptation on child coping: The protective role of caregiver social support1
Children’s prosocial lying: Polite versus altruistic lies in different social contexts1
Belongingness to groups, adolescent loneliness trajectories, and their consequences1
Character attributes scale: An integrative idiographic and differential approach to measuring character1
Introduction to the special section on parenting across cultures: Bridging commonalities and specificities in parental control and warmth1
The current practice of latent growth curve modeling in the social and behavioral sciences: Observations and recommendations1
Generativity, perceptions of positive changes, and mental health in middle-aged and older adults1
Children’s and adolescents’ reasoning about distributive fairness and educational inequalities1
Pandemic-induced economic stress in an otherwise-privileged sample predicts parents’ socialization of child prosociality and parent coping1
Parental reactions to child negative emotions and child behavioral adjustment: The moderating role of child inhibitory control1
A framework for interpreting the relationship between risk-taking and self-control in adolescence1
How different forms of social rank are expressed in social behavior: A study of emerging adults in cooperative and competitive contexts1
In the face of adversity: Refugee children’s traumatic stressors, trust, and prosocial behavior1
True intraindividual change in moral self: The role of parental warmth in moral development during middle childhood1
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults1
Center-based childcare during infancy: The relations with functional brain networks and self-regulation in young children1
Predictors Of Friendship Stability In School-Age Students And The Role Of Classroom Composition Change1
Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score1
Early-life exposure to political violence and domestic violence1
Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning1
Parents’ ethnotheories of the nature and causes of children’s misbehaviors: A comparison of mothers across two cultures1
A systematic review on the role of parents and peers in adolescents’ pro-environmental behaviors1
Are (pre)adolescents differentially susceptible to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection? A vignette-based experiment1
Childhood self-regulation and life outcomes in a 50-year follow-up study1
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development1
Parent and teacher involvement and adolescent academic engagement: Unique, mediated, and transactional effects1
Family income or left-behind status? Exploring the key determinant of rural children’s emotional and behavioral problems1
Subjective age and pulmonary function in midlife and old age: Evidence for between-person associations and within-person co-occurrence1
Predicting changes in classroom aggression status norms: The role of teachers’ normative beliefs and students’ perceived support1
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis1
Aging in context—Daily views of aging and affect vary by region of residence1
The impact of affective touch on physiological self-regulation among preschool-age children: The influence of emotional context and effortful control1
Maternal postpartum depression symptoms and early childhood hyperactive/aggressive behavior are independently associated with later attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms1
Subtypes of childhood social withdrawal and adult relationship and parenting outcomes1
Youth’s own political interest can explain their political interactions with important others1
Linking maternal phubbing (smartphone distractions in the presence of children) to child behavioral adjustment: A daily diary study1
Longitudinal pathways linking peer victimization to academic efficacy in adolescence: Indirect effects via sleep1
Timing is everything: Developmental changes in the associations between intergroup contact and bias1
A Short Parent-Reported Attachment Relationship Questionnaire: Development and Cultural Validation for a Majority World Context1
Children’s understanding of mixed emotions across cultures1
Predicting emotion regulation in typically developing toddlers: Insights into the joint and unique influences of various contextual predictors1
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood1
Peer victimization in college: The role of gendered personality traits and previous peer victimization experiences1
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood1
The joint effects of individual-level and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on children’s psychosocial adjustment: A longitudinal study1
Differences in the interplay of face and speech processing in 5-year-olds and adults1
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model1
“Do I know how you feel?” Parents’ and adolescents’ recognition of each other’s daily moods1
Exploring person-centered techniques: A scoping review of temperament subtypes in infancy through childhood1
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants1
Social costs of selfishness: Greed relates to diminished sympathy and prosocial behavior in children1
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems1
Unique associations between adolescent temperament profiles and psychopathology in Latino adolescents1
A longitudinal study of parents’ home-safety practices to prevent injuries during infancy1
Linking fine motor skills with theory of mind in school-age children1
Longitudinal associations between quality of out-of-school time and adolescent social skills1
Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations: Comparing adolescents in the United States and Pakistan1
Profiles of migrant preschoolers’ social–emotional competence: Association with mindful parenting1
Introduction to the special section on predictors and outcomes of peer victimization1
Sniffing out emotion: Basic emotions elicited by odors in children and adolescents1
Testing cross-lag effects between peer victimization and social anxiety symptoms from third to fifth grade1
Developmental shifts in irritable behaviors from preschool to school age: Longitudinal network analysis of heterotypic and homotypic continuity1
Reciprocal associations between general psychopathology and emotion regulation from adolescence to adulthood1
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