OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Psychology in Africa is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The moderating effect of social support on the relationship between burnout, intention to drop out, and satisfaction with studies of first-year university students	36
Social networking sites self-image antecedents of social networking site addiction	17
Subjective knowledge and health consciousness influences on health tourism intention after the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective study	15
Brand loyalty and the Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) Korean dance: Global viewers’ perceptions	14
Mobile phone addiction and cognitive failures in Chinese adolescents: The role of rumination and mindfulness	14
Performing arts and sustainable consumption: Influences of consumer perceived value on ballet performance audience loyalty	13
Servant leadership, diversity climate, and organisational citizenship behaviour at a selection of South African companies	12
College students’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study	11
How and when does perceived supervisor support for strengths use influence employee strengths use? The roles of positive affect and self-efficacy	10
Social anxiety, maladaptive cognition, mobile phone addiction, and perceived social support: A moderated mediation model	10
Job demands, job resources, and work engagement among South African nurses	10
Criminal psychology trend prediction based on deep learning algorithm and three-dimensional convolutional neural network	9
Academic attitude and subjective norms effects on international doctoral students’ academic performance self-perceptions: A moderated-mediation analysis of the influences of knowledge- seeking intenti	9
Assessing the construct validity of the Career Agility Scale for measuring adult workers’ digital era adaptive readiness	9
Talent management practices and work-related outcomes for South African academic staff	9
Entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial expectation and entrepreneurial decision-making among college students	9
Climbing the illusive ladder: Examining female employees’ perceptions of advancement opportunities at a higher education institution	7
Sustainable person-environment fit and subjective career success: The moderating role of resilience	7
Social exchange influences on ethical leadership and employee commitment in a developing country setting	7
Public perception of risk and coping response to COVID-19 in China: The moderating role of negative emotion	7
The psychology of sustainability and sustainable development: Transdisciplinary perspectives	6
Abusive supervision and work engagement in the Nigerian public service sector: Do strengths use, and promotion focus matter?	6
Mediating role of meaningful work and vocational identity on the relationship between perceived family supportive supervisor behaviour and career satisfaction	6
The influence of self-identity on social support, loneliness, and internet addiction among Chinese college students	6
Job insecurity and psychological well-being: The moderating roles of self-perceived employability and core self-evaluations	6

Grieving widows’ lived experiences in a rural South African setting	6
Corporate sustainability and customer loyalty: The role of firm’s green image	5
Tourism graduate students’ employability skills: Results and implications of a Zimbabwean study	5
Inclusive leadership and employee innovative work behaviours: Testing a psychological empowerment and leader-member exchange moderated-mediation model	5
Natural hair chronicles of black female vloggers: Influences on their psychological well-being	5
Exploring the process of ethical leadership on organisational commitment: The mediating role of career calling	5
Humble leadership and work fatigue: The roles of self-efficacy and perceived team autonomy-support	5
Transformational leadership and core self-evaluation: The roles of psychological well-being and supervisor-subordinate guanxi	5
The dimensionality of the UWES-17 and UWES-9: Testing second-order and bifactor models	5
The influence of developmental feedback on voice: The mediating role of organisation-based self-esteem	4
Popular culture influences on national image and tourism behavioural intention: An exploratory study	4
Creative leadership and employee work wellness: Supervisor support as a mediator	4
Prevalence and associated factors of child abuse and its effects on anxiety and depression among children in Sierra Leone: Results of the 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey	4
Psychological empowerment and professional well-being of Chinese kindergarten teachers: The mediating effect of professional pressure	4
Exploring Basotho teenage fathers’ experiences of early fatherhood at South African rural high schools	4
Organisational trust and commitment among South African public service employees: Influence of socio-demographics	4
Prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Liberia	4
Prevalence and associated factors of loneliness among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Morocco	4
Interpersonal sensitivity and social avoidance and distress in female college students: Mediating role of self-inconsistency and moderating role of self-consciousness	4
Experiential branded app engagement and brand loyalty: An empirical study in the context of a festival	4
The Teacher Well-Being Scale (TWBS): Construct validity, model comparisons and measurement invariance in an Ethiopian setting	4
Perceived stress, coping and mental health of teachers: A latent profile analysis	4
Procedural justice, police legitimacy, and performance: Perspectives of South African students	4
Volunteerism influences on student resilience and gratitude	4
Leadership style and self-efficacy: The influences of feedback	4
Children’s stress, negative emotions, emotional eating, and eating disorders: A moderated mediation model	4
Life after training: Professional experiences of early career clinical and counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Mental morbidity and its associations with socio-behavioural factors and chronic conditions in rural middle- and older-aged adults in South Africa	3
“You can’t bully me anymore”: Coping strategies in a group of psychologists accused of professional misconduct	3
“I’m angry with my mother”: Lived psychosocial experiences of adolescents with peri-natal-acquired HIV in Limpopo, South Africa	3
Paradoxical leader behaviour effects on employee taking charge: A moderated – mediating model	3
Organisational culture influences on corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement in a service sector industry	3
Fear of COVID-19, perceived academic stress, future anxiety, and psychological distress of Ghanaian university students: A serial mediation examination	3
Adult attachment: Its mediation role on childhood trauma and mobile phone addiction	3
Prevalence and correlates of interpersonal violence among in-school adolescents in Tanzania	3
Supervisor support and work engagement: The mediating role of psychological safety in a post-restructuring business organisation	3
Mothering in socioeconomically marginalised communities in South Africa: A conceptual development	3
Emotional intelligence and psychological skills application among female field-hockey players	3
Mental flexibility (set-shifting) deficits in children with ADHD: A replication and extension study	3
Risk factors associated with youth gang involvement: An exploratory criminological case study analysis	3
Gendered actual controlling shareholders and family business emotional attachment influences on business operational violations: A propensity score matching analysis	3
Does a paternalistic leader facilitate voice and creative performance? Evidence from Ghana	3
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students	3
Self-control mediation on the relationship between personal growth initiative and smartphone addiction among Chinese university students	3
Perspectives of college students on the causes and prevention of suicide in Nigerian universities	3
Corporate sustainability and firm performance in small and medium enterprises in Ghana: Mediating role of green innovation	3
Structure and norms of the Learning and Study Strategy Inventory: A comparison of South African and American samples	3
Parenting style, social interaction anxiety, and problematic internet use among students	3
Measuring time perspective in Ethiopian young adults using the Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory (AATI)	3
Value co-creation effects on transaction cost, relational capital, and loyalty of hair salon customers: Results and implications of a Ghanaian study	3

The interplay between interpersonal relationships and organisational learning behaviour: Influences of psychological safety	3
Racial relations and life satisfaction among South Africans: Results from the 2017 South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS)	3
Self-esteem and interpersonal difficulties of college students: Influences of self-control and self-concept	3
Structural validity and measurement invariance of the Psychological Career Resources Inventory Short Form as a predictor of career satisfaction	2
Parent caregiver perceptions of the behaviour of their children with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative exploratory study	2
Factor structure in Raven’s Progressive Matrices Plus in sub-Saharan Africa – Benin and Djibouti	2
Psychosocial variables of the interactive mobile interface for geriatric persons in a Kenyan setting: An exploratory study	2
Consequences of consumer engagement on the performance of e-commerce firms in Ghana: Moderating effects of consumer-owned resources	2
Organisational capital and graduate employability: A serial mediation analysis of human and personal-social capital	2
Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Promoting child and youth resilience and related mental health outcomes	2
Work beliefs, work-role fit, and well-being of judges in South Africa: Effects on intention to leave and organisational citizenship behaviour	2
A latent class analysis of adverse childhood life events in Ugandan adolescents	2
Indirect exposure to trauma: Does resilience explain the link between optimism and secondary traumatic stress among in-patient carers?	2
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre	2
Alcohol misuse prevalence and correlates among school adolescents from national surveys in Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2
Attachment styles as predictors of intimate partner violence: A retrospective study with a student population	2
A South African exploration into outdoor adventure education and adolescent psychosocial development	2
Prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep disturbance and associated factors among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Benin	2
Is happiness based on psychological harmony? Exploring the mediating role of psychological harmony in the relationship between personality characteristics and occupational well-being	2
The prevalence and correlates of suicidal behaviour among adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago	2
Does perceived chess skills mediate the relationship between fluid intelligence and academic performance?	2
Stimulating employee job crafting by providing developmental feedback	2
Corporate ethical values and ethical work climate influences on employees’ helping behaviour in a developing country’s banking sector setting	2
Family influence and career calling: The mediating role of work passion and career exploration	2
Perceived information communication and technology (ICT) demands and psychological well-being among Gabon civil servants: The moderating role of social support and organisational support	2
Young children’s conceptions of morality in a South African context	2
Mathematical calculation ability of primary school children: A comparative study between Ghana and China	2
Predictors of staff retention satisfaction: The role of the psychological contract and job satisfaction	2
Correctional rehabilitation programmes’ effectiveness: A phenomenological study of recidivists in a South African setting	2
Testing a structural model for study demands and resources, study engagement and well-being of first-year university students	2
Personality traits and occupational stress among special needs education teachers	2
Correlates of suicidal behaviour among adults in Guyana	2
Experiences of black African women entrepreneurs in the South African male-dominated entrepreneurial environments	2
Could transformational leadership predict employee voice behaviour? Evidence from a meta-analysis	2
Stress levels and alcohol use amongst beginning students at a peri-urban South African university: A brief report	2
Organisational citizenship behaviours: Their influences on mineworkers’ turnover intention	2
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice	2
Anxiety and depression among Egyptians during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross sectional study	2
Multi-trait, multi-method talent assessment through a digital platform: Relationship with job performance	2
Factorial structure of the Community of Inquiry Survey in a South African open and distance e-learning environment	2
Structural equation modelling of risk indicators for suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Nigerian Yorùbá youth	2
Polysubstance use among national samples of in-school adolescents in Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago	2