OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Early life grandmother caregiving trajectories and child development: A longitudinal study	84
What’s best about best friends: Higher-ranked friend nominations are more stable and more likely to be reciprocated than lower-ranked nominations	46
Bias of retrospective reporting to combat missingness in longitudinal research	38
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	33
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	29
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	26
Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal food insecurity in childhood and child hair cortisol	25
Identifying Longevity Profiles Among Centenarians: A Latent Profile Analysis	24
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries	24
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	22
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	22
Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years	18
Psychometric Evidence of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	17
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	17
A scoping review of the role of mindful parenting in youth’s emotional, behavioral, and social adjustment, coping, and emotion regulation	17
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	16
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens	16
The Moderating Role of Child Temperament in the Face of Parental Distress During Covid-19: Associations with Long-Term Social-Emotional Functioning	15
Early-life family relationships, children’s mental health trajectories, and their prospective associations with adolescent distrust and social isolation	15
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention	14
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting	14
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model	13
Building Emotional Walls: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Sequential Reciprocal Links Between Loneliness and Expressive Suppression in Rural Adolescents	13
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	13
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents	12

Personality disorder in young people: Development, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment	12
The link between co-rumination and mood problems in victimized adolescents: A daily diary study	11
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	11
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood	10
Should we turn a deaf ear or take responsibility? The bystander effect in helping behavior of young children	10
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	10
Cross-lagged relationship between interpersonal closeness, early language skills and emotion understanding among toddlers	10
Network Dynamics of Depressive Symptoms Across Age Groups: A Panel Network Analysis	10
Occupational and familial long-term effects of gender role attitudes	9
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	9
The five Cs as a model of positive human development: Extending a model of positive youth development to young and middle-aged adults	9
Adolescent and Parent Perceptions of Legitimacy of Parental Authority: Developmental Trajectories and Relation to Adjustment Outcomes	9
Forgiving Without Letting Go: Children’s Evaluations of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness Across Two Cultural Contexts	9
The promotion of independence and interdependence in parent–child interactions across two cultures: Associations with maternal socialization goals	8
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	8
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	8
Maternal discipline in the moment: Within-person fluctuations in maternal self-efficacy, attributions, and intended disciplinary responses in the context of challenging toddler behavior	8
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	8
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society	8
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	7
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	7
Standing Against Bullying: The Role of Teachers’ Support for Victims, and School Connectedness in Bystanders’ Defending Behavior	7
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	7
Temperament, Prosociality, and Cultural Differences in Declarative Pointing: A Multi-Method Study	7
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	7
Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies predicted early relationship skills: Children’s forgiveness as a mediator	6
Classroom social status norms and bullying dynamics: A latent profile analysis of popularity, likability, and rejection norms	6
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	6
Parents’ social comparisons online, distress, and self-efficacy: A longitudinal examination of predictors and effects	6
Parenting approaches and feelings of autonomy among adolescents in two cultures	6
Young White children’s allocation and punishment behaviors toward White and Black peers: Individual and parental factors	6
Parental Strategies for Managing Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors in Young Children: A Comparison Across Two Countries	6
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence	6
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study	6
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	6
Individual differences in retirement savings: The role of future self-continuity and numeracy	5
Improved responsive caregiving and home learning environment through a relational home visitation program: Delayed control group comparison	5
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia	5
Primary Versus Secondary Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Longitudinal Study of Predictors, Outcomes, and Gender Differences	5
Child-to-parent violence and parent mental health: A systematic review	5
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	5
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 practices	5
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting	5
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security	5
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study	4
Tracking Divergence of Objective and Subjective Health Across Age and Historical Time	4
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning	4
Nonlinear dynamics of attrition in adolescent panels: Identifying differential dropout patterns using random survival forests	4
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples	4
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood	4

Patterns of Co-Occurring Maternal and Paternal Parenting and Child Behavioral Adjustment Identified in Chinese Families	4
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	4
The effects of youth civic participation on well-being: Results from a seven-wave longitudinal study	4
Longitudinal Paths Between Parenting, Internalizing Symptoms, and Different Forms of Prosocial Behavior	4
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses	4
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence	4
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring	4
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 mind	4
Children’s subjective socioeconomic status and their sharing decisions: The role of the recipient’s neediness	4