OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology & Health 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The moderating role of trait and state mindfulness between daily sleep and physical pain symptoms: an ecological momentary assessment and actigraphy study	42
Effect of depression and anxiety on sexual functioning in couples trying to conceive with and without an infertility diagnosis	33
‘I didn’t feel like I was a doctor’: a qualitative interview study exploring the experiences and representations of healthcare professionals’ capacity to deliver compassionate care and to practice sel	26
Fluctuations in core depressive symptoms in colorectal cancer patients. A prospective, population-based PROFILES-registry study	25
Understanding the experiences and psychosocial support needs of caregivers of people with comorbid dementia and cancer	24
Broad versus narrow bandwidth measures of experienced automaticity for physical activity	20
Health behaviour: sexually transmitted infection prevention behaviour, sun protection behaviour, medication non-adherence, and health professional behaviour	19
Inducing consumers to use calorie information: a multinational investigation	19
The role of disgust as an emotional barrier to colorectal cancer screening participation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Roles of benefit finding in psychological and inflammatory adjustments in persons with colorectal cancer: a prospective analysis on the multidimensionality of benefit finding	18
Self-care behaviors, drinking, and smoking to cope with psychological distress during COVID-19 among Chinese college students: the role of resilience	18
Stress, coping, and positive aspects of caregiving among caregivers of children with rare disease	18
Is bronchial asthma a risk factor for emotional well-being in adolescence? A comparative study	17
Temporal stability of behavior, temporal cue-behavior associations, and physical activity habit strength among mothers with school-aged children	17
‘I have no life and neither do the ones watching me suffer’: women’s experiences of transvaginal mesh implant surgery	15
Interpersonal comparison among caregivers of children with asthma	14
Sense of coherence and health in adolescents: a longitudinal cohort study	14
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems	14
Predicting intention and maintenance of breastfeeding up to 2-years after birth in primiparous and multiparous women	14
Identity formation in adolescent and emerging adult cancer survivors: a differentiated perspective and associations with psychosocial functioning	13
Information seeking and subsequent affective well-being in Chinese young adults: the mediating effects of worry	13
To be happy and behave in a healthier way. A longitudinal study about gender differences in the older population	13
COVID-19 fear mediates the relationship between perceived risk and preventive behaviors: the moderating role of perceived effectiveness	13
Helpless against food cues: the influence of pro- and anti-sugar videos on instrumental food-seeking behaviour in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm	13
Psychological needs and exercise behaviour: a comparison of two psychological needs models	12

Perceptions of partner social control: accuracy, bias, and daily experience	12
Sleep, movement, and dietary behaviours: the mediating role of affect	11
Smoking self-concept moderates the effects of self-affirmation on smoking-related beliefs and behavioral intentions	11
Understanding children’s voices about enablers of obesity from a causal attribution’s stance: a vignette study	11
Women and shame: narratives of recovery from alcohol dependence	11
The subcomponents of affect scale (SAS): validating a widely used affect scale	11
Expanding the analysis of mechanisms of action in behavioral interventions: cognitive change versus cognitive activation	11
Healthcare innovation adoption in Africa: the case of long-lasting insecticide nets in Ghana using protection motivation theory	11
Positive psychology interventions can improve mental health for chronic pain patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Type 2 diabetes self-management schemas across diverse health literacy levels: a qualitative investigation	11
The interplay between ovarian cancer and social relationships: an analysis of patients’ metaphors	11
The joint effect of attachment orientations and empathy on compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among oncologists	11
Emotional well-being in COVID-19 mass quarantine: the role of personal response and life activity: a 14-day diary study in China	10
Psychometric evaluations of the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), based on nine samples	10
Trajectories of fatigue in cancer patients during psychological care	10
Public opinion in vaccine allocation priority: who comes first?	10
Associations between emotional support and cardiovascular risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis in middle-age	10
Effects of open and hidden administration of treatment-related information; a multi-experiment study	9
Absolute and comparative risk assessments: evidence for the utility of incorporating internal comparisons into models of risk perception	9
HPV vaccination and cervical screening: the knowledge and attitudes of mothers of adolescent girls	9
Maintaining distance and avoiding going out during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal examination of an integrated social cognition model	9
Cancer patients’ participation and commitment to psychological interventions: a scoping review	9
Experiences of transition from adolescence to young adulthood in the context of chronic skin conditions: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	8
Efficacy of cognitive training on executive functions in healthy older adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	8
Establishing open science research priorities in health psychology: a research prioritisation Delphi exercise	8
Group-based trajectories and predictors of adherence to physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Health literacy and health behaviors in parent-adolescent dyads: an actor-partner interdependence model approach	8
Experiences of successful physical activity maintenance among adults with type 2 diabetes: a theory-based qualitative study	8
Managing children’s asthma: what role do caregivers’ mental representations of trigger and symptom management behaviors play?	8
A latent profile analysis using the theory of planned behavior to predict alcohol use	8
Generalized self-efficacy and compliance with health behaviours related to COVID-19 in the US	8
Reframing prolonged negative mental health effects of COVID-19: cognitive restructuring promotes posttraumatic growth	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and seeking information about condoms online: an infodemiology approach	7
Making sense of COVID-19: a longitudinal investigation of the initial stages of developing illness representations	7
Justice beliefs buffer against perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening among African Americans	7
Is there a combined effect of depression and cognitive reserve on cognitive function? Findings from a population-based study	7
Culture of honour and the stigma of abortion	7
Living with functional movement disorders: a tale of three battles. An interpretative phenomenological analysis	7
Breaking the endometriosis silence: a social norm approach to reducing menstrual stigma and policy resistance among young adults	7
Sexual self-efficacy and sexual communication among adolescent girls: moderated mediation results from a randomized controlled trial	7
Comparison of approach/avoidance intentions for alcohol and vegetable consumption under a temporal self-regulation theory framework	6
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: twenty-one questions to guide future research	6
Correction	6
Evaluating the sociodemographic, anthropometric and lifestyle parameters, depression, quality of life, cognitive status, physical activity, and Mediterranean diet adherence of older adults in pre- and	6
Psychosocial predictors of distress in East and West Germans during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
A qualitative exploration of health-related quality of life and health behaviours in children with sickle cell disease and healthy siblings	6
Construction of identity in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease across the lifespan	6
Mental health, stress, and well-being measured before (2019) and during (2020) COVID-19: a Swedish socioeconomic population-based study	6
The voices of youths in COVID-19 times: exploring young people’s emotional representations	6
The feasibility and acceptability of a single-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to support women self-reporting fear of childbirth in a first pregnancy	6

‘I knew it wasn’t normal, I just didn’t know what to do about it’: adversity and caregiver support when growing up in a family with Huntington’s disease	6
Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with asthma: a co-produced mixed-methods study	6
Trajectories of health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of handwashing, mask wearing, social contact limitations, and physical distancing	6
Protecting mass-gathering events in a pandemic with testing tracks and transparent information: an experimental study with festival guests	5
Consequences of daily self-weighing: a pilot study in higher-weight women with a history of breast cancer	5
Positive psychological traits predict future sleep quality and quantity: exploring emotion regulation as a common mediator	5
Correction	5
Pain experiences among women in midlife with existing health conditions: changes across pre-COVID-19, stay-at-home orders, and initial reopening	5
Self- and other-efficacy are related to current smoking during a quit attempt: a daily diary study in single-smoking couples	5
Personality traits and polypharmacy: meta-analysis of five samples	5
Easier, but not easy: Testing a grounded theory of breastfeeding experiences among women with larger birthweight infants	5
Coping in the Danish general population: psychometric properties of the Danish version of the Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire	5
Drinker’s own drinking, experience of alcohol-related harms, and concern for drinking predict drinker’s attitudes towards non-drinkers	5
‘The coronavirus is a formidable foe’: children’s multimodal articulations of SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 pandemic experiences in China	5
Effects of lifestyle behaviours and depressed mood on sleep quality in young adults. A machine learning approach	5
A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a culture and disease-specific, patient-centric multi-component tobacco cessation intervention package for the patients attending non-com	5
Downward adjustment of rehabilitation goals may facilitate post-stroke arm motor recovery	5
Calorie deprivation impairs the self-control of eating, but not of other behaviors	4
Promoting empowerment or intensifying reproductive burden? Accounts of preconception health adjustments among women trying to conceive	4
How can older peer leaders best support motivation for walking in physically inactive older adults? A self-determination theory perspective	4
Love and lifestyle: how ‘relational healthism’ structures couples’ talk of engagement with lifestyle advice associated with a new diagnosis of coronary heart disease.	4
Temporal dynamics of mental imagery, craving and consumption of craved foods: an experience sampling study	4
Cohabitation with a smoker and efficacy of cessation programmes: the mediating role of the theory of planned behaviour	4
Work-family conflicts and pain interference among midlife adults: a longitudinal serial mediation via family strain and loneliness	4
‘I wanted to share with you some of my healthy habits’: YouTubers’ staging of health-related practices	4
Identifying the outcomes of participating in peer mentorship for adults living with spinal cord injury: a qualitative meta-synthesis	4
The self-regulation of face touching - a preregistered experiment testing if-then plans as a means to promote COVID-19 prevention	4
Pathways from adolescent screen time to eating related symptoms: a multilevel longitudinal mediation analysis through self-esteem	4
Illness representations of vaping associated lung injury (VALI) and E-cigarette use: common sense model of self-regulation driven mixed-method approach	4
An evaluation of goal setting in the NHS England diabetes prevention programme	4
Am I a responsible drinker? The impact of message frame and drinker prototypes on perceptions of alcohol product information labels	4
Feasibility of Systems Support Mapping to guide patient-driven health self-management in colorectal cancer survivors	4
The role of pain intensity and depressive symptoms in the relationship between sleep quality and postural control among middle-aged and older adults with Fibromyalgia	4
Health professionals interface with cultural conflict in the delivery of type 2 diabetes care	4
Look away now! Defensive processing and unrealistic optimism by level of alcohol consumption	4
The role of psychosocial risks in burnout, psychosomatic disorders, and job satisfaction: lineal models vs a QCA approach in non-university teachers	4
Understanding the disconnect between lifestyle advice and patient engagement: a discourse analysis of how expert knowledge is constructed by patients with CHD	4
Effect of source on trust of pulse nutrition information and perceived likelihood of following dietary guidance	4
‘She thought the same way I that I thought:’ a qualitative study of patient-provider concordance among Gulf War Veterans with Gulf War Illness	4