OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Developmental Science 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	90
Typologies of Response to Adversities Questionnaire (TRAQ): A novel measure to capture the resilience process in young people	39
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	21
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	21
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	14
Sentiment, salience, and context: Applying text methods to developmental research using puberty as a case example	14
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	13
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	13
A multidimensional view of the home learning environment: How parents engage children across literacy, math, science, and executive function	13
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	12
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults	11
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging	9
Reliability of a child self-regulation measure within intensive longitudinal designs: MCFA and DSEM approaches	9
Does entering early childhood education as a toddler benefit language and social development until age seven? A propensity score analysis	8
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support	8
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children	7
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty	7
Latino caregivers’ culture-specific reasons and enacted language practices for raising bilingual children	6
Parental cultural socialization and critical consciousness in two samples of BIPOC and White adolescents	6
The role of patience, religiosity, and spirituality in the search for purpose among young adults	6
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	6
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning	5
Purpose development in the context of higher education	5
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood	5
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	5

Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	5
Social cognitive development and engagement in dance	5
The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression	4
The role of play partners for preschoolers’ observed emotion Regulation in dyadic play situations	4
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings	4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.	4
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective	4
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China	4
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Longitudinal associations among American adolescents’ civic engagement and family and school characteristics	4
A mixed methods study of natural mentoring relationships and loneliness in emerging adulthood	4
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement	3
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan	3
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	3
From an asset-based approach: Prospective associations of strength-based parenting, gratitude, and adolescent friendship quality	3
COVID-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: insights from Saudi households	3
Effect of prosocial behavior on Chinese adolescents’ self-esteem: A longitudinal study	3
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture	3
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior	3
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	3
Profiles of youth’s values prior to postsecondary transitions: Associations with well-being and career decision-making	3
The 2020 racial justice movements and emerging adult college students’ trajectories of sociopolitical development	3
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school	3
A qualitative exploration of Latinx immigrant young adults’ experiences with anti-immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes	3
The multidimensional online civic engagement for youth (MOCE-Y) scale: development and validation	3
Assessing children and youth’s socio-emotional behavior in rural Côte d’Ivoire: Construct validity and links to caregiver mental health and stress	3
Associations between adolescent alcohol use and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood	2
Differential growth trajectories of behavioral self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence: Implication for youth domain-general and school-specific outcomes	2
Listening to teachers: Facilitating content and conditions for addressing issues of racism and xenophobia with youth in schools	2
Does implying peer knowledge during an interview promote truthful disclosures from peer disclosure recipients and witnesses?	2
Multilingualism and malleability of verbal abilities: Parents’ practices and beliefs about learning two languages in early childhood	2
Predicting early adulthood outcomes from adolescent developmental assets: Operationalization and longitudinal analysis of internal and external resources	2
Development and validation of a self-report measure of summer camp counselor burnout	2
Correction	2
Development and initial testing of the critical reflection on sexism scale (CROSS) among young adults in the U.S.	2
Unraveling the complexity of children’s thinking about poverty: Upper elementary school children’s perspectives on its causes and solutions	2
Cohort variations in the relation between socioeconomic status and early achievement: roles of policy, preschool experience, and home learning environments	2
Examining critical anti-racism action as a buffer of the link between discrimination and mental health outcomes	2
Differences in daily lie-telling patterns from adolescence to older adulthood	2
Bidirectional associations between positive youth development and contribution: implications for programs and policies	2
The master narrative of racialized police murders: An examination of parent-child conversations among black and white parents	2
Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: the socialization roles of family, school, and associations	2
Thriving amidst adversity: longitudinal subjective well-being and economic mobility in the Puerto Rican climate diaspora	2
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking	2
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana	2
A model of positive Liberian youth development	2
How do mothers’ pre-pandemic emotion regulation skills and pandemic-related anxiety predict their children’s sadness regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic?	2
Adverse childhood experiences, discrimination, and substance use among Latino/a/Hispanic youth	2
Who’s to blame? How subtle negative messages about outgroups contribute to ethnic prejudice development in middle to late childhood	2
White ethnic majority German young adults’ accounts of parental socialization around race, ethnicity, culture, and national identity	1

Validation of the French-Canadian Version of the Positive Youth Development Scale-Short Form (PYD-SF)	1
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	1
Exploring the self, others, and the world: the interplay between experiences abroad in adolescence, identity processes, and ethnic prejudice	1
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth	1
Meaning making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of purpose in life, positive reframing, acceptance, and event appraisal	1
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills	1
Individual, family, peer, and religious community predictors of adolescent religious deidentification	1
Social change, cultural evolution, weaving apprenticeship, and development: informal education across three generations and 42 years in a Maya community	1
Quality of life and socioemotional development: A lifespan analysis	1
A mixed methods study examining how classroom experiences cultivate respect in Middle school students	1
Visualizing holistic person-specific dynamic systems: a case example with self-efficacy and self-care behavior in emerging adults with type 1 diabetes	1
Empowering community-changers: Developing civic efficacy in elementary classrooms	1
Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model	1
“Paying attention gets twice the result with half the effort”: Teachers’ understanding of children’s attention in Chinese early childhood classrooms	1
The role of prenatal depression and infant negative emotionality on maternal mind-mindedness	1
Youth activism: developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement	1
Shifting and persisting in the face of life stressors: consequences for adolescent health	1
Threat and deprivation as distinct predictors of posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in first and second generation Latinx youth	1
Revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire: a reflection of parent moral identity?	1
Active vs. passive urbanization: Does urbanization type affect early childhood cognitive and language development? Evidence from peri-urban China	1
Pathways to community leadership: Transitions, turning points, and generational continuity	1
Pre-K attendance and primary grade social and behavioral development: The role of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs and perceptions	1
Premenstrual symptoms and the 5Cs: The moderating role of physical exercise and the mediating role of body satisfaction	1
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study	1
Factorial and cultural validity of a social and emotional behavior measure in Northern Ghana	1
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	1
Psychosocial school-based intervention among adolescents with migrant and native backgrounds: Effectiveness and experiences	1
Longitudinal associations between parenting practices and children’s later decision-making competence	1
Impulse control moderates the association between substance use and substance use-related consequences among justice-system-involved youth	1