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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mental health literacy in black South African communities	21
Servant leadership and work performance of public servants: Exploring the mediating role of public service motivation and job satisfaction	18
A psychological contract for the digital mindset: Factor analysis of the Psychological Contract Inputs-Outcomes Inventory (PCIOI)	12
Interpersonal sensitivity and social avoidance and distress in female college students: Mediating role of self-inconsistency and moderating role of self-consciousness	11
Social anxiety and problematic social network site use: The sequential mediating role of self-esteem and self-concept clarity	11
Gratitude to nature and pro-environmental behaviour: A moderated mediated model	10
Community social capital and mental health participation: Test of psychosocial mediators in two resource-poor urban communities in Ghana	10
Fear of COVID-19 and job insecurity among hospitality industry employees: The mediating role of happiness	9
How do consumers react to big data-based personalised pricing? A cognition–affect–behaviour perspective	9
Wellness needs of academic employees: A case study of a South African university	9
The quality of care in correctional facilities in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review of literature	9
Mindfulness and meaning in life: The mediating effect of self-concept clarity and coping self-efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Adult attachment: Its mediation role on childhood trauma and mobile phone addiction	8
Tourism graduate students’ employability skills: Results and implications of a Zimbabwean study	8
Loneliness and psychological well-being among the elderly in Buffalo City, South Africa	8
Heavy episodic alcohol use among adults: Prevalence and correlates in Central African Republic	7
Spatiotemporal expectations of apparent motion and the effect of attentional control	7
Interpersonal violence experienced by nurses caring for persons with intellectual disability: A phenomenological study	7
Disasters are not cute: Cute expressions increase dehumanisation	7
Hope and its relation to grit and subjective well-being among first-year South African university students	6
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective	6
Father’s parenting attitude and teacher-child relationships: Mediating role of children’s self-regulation ability	6
How psychological contract breach relates to façades of conformity: The mediating role of emotional labour	6
Obstacle course soldiers’ reaction and perception time: Combat equipment load effects	6
Impact of workplace adversity on well-being of Ghanaian bankers: Do resilience and psychological safety matter?	6

Mothers’ perceptions of children’s emotional behaviour problems and parenting sense of competence: The mediating role of maternal meta-emotion philosophy	6
Paradoxical leader behaviour effects on employee taking charge: A moderated – mediating model	5
Strengths mindset and job satisfaction: The mediating role of thriving at work and the moderating role of authentic leadership	5
Teacher support and student engagement in mathematics: The chain mediating role of academic self-efficacy and achievement goal orientation	5
Negative social interactions and the persistence of depression: Evidence from the women of Westbury, South Africa	5
How and when does employees’ learning goal orientation contribute to taking charge behaviour? The roles of empowering leadership and work-related flow	5
Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style	4
Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa , Ann Shuttleworth-Edwards	4
Socio-demographic characteristics as predictors of psychosocial resources of call centre agents	4
The classroom environment and college students’ being silent/hidden dropouts: The chain of mediating effects of college identification and academic achievement	4
Problem drinking among a cross-sectional national sample of adolescents in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	4
A latent class analysis of adverse childhood life events in Ugandan adolescents	4
Influence of ego resilience on school adaptability among primary school lower-grade children	4
Servant leadership and employee attitudes within a South African state-owned enterprise: Mediation by employee motivation	4
Aspirations and meanings of lighter skin tone in the African context: A rapid review	4
Identity processing styles and personal growth initiative in college students: The mediating role of cultural tightness–looseness	4
Perceived information communication and technology (ICT) demands and psychological well-being among Gabon civil servants: The moderating role of social support and organisational support	4
Employee followership predispositions: Their perceptions of narcissistic traits in supervisors	4
The role of career wellness in living and studying for South African first-year university students	4
Call centre support staff job crafting and employee engagement: Controlling the effects of sociodemographic characteristics	3
A fortunate self-actualised man: A psycho-biographical study of Yuan Longping	3
Purposeful rumination on childhood trauma and post-traumatic growth among college students: A moderated mediation model	3
Correctional officers’ perceptions of resilience of at-risk youth in a correctional centre in Eswatini	3
Factor structure in Raven’s Progressive Matrices Plus in sub-Saharan Africa – Benin and Djibouti	3
The experience machine: How our minds predict and shape reality	3
Upward social comparisons on social networking sites (SNSs) and subjective well-being: The mediating role of envy	3
Cultural identity, cultural confidence, and folk activities: An empirical study of the folk culture of Moon-cake Gambling at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xiamen, China	3
Linking servant leadership to work strains: The mediating effect of strengths use	3
“It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa	3
Business organisation performance behaviour indicators in Ghana and Kenya: A comparative analysis	3
Validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index in the Arab context: Results and implications of a Moroccan study	3
Correlates of lived career calling: The role of perceived calling and organisational cultural identity among police cadets	3
Health provider administration functions, patient satisfaction, and loyalty: Their mediation by patient healthcare service quality perceptions	3
Cultural Models of Emotions	3
How perspective taking influences obesity stereotypes: The mediating effect of intergroup contact	3
Defender self-efficacy and defender behaviour in school bullying of primary school pupils: The role of perceived responsibility and sex	2
Physical exercise and aggressive behaviour among rural children: Cognitive flexibility mediation and peer relationship quality moderation	2
Exploring the process of harsh parenting on online aggressive behaviour: The mediating role of trait anger	2
Validation of Learning Transfer Inventory System (LTIS) in Cameroon teachers: Measurement invariance and latent mean difference across sex	2
Attachment and general well-being in breast cancer patients: Mediation of body esteem and social support	2
The qualitative methodology: Preparedness and experiences of journal reviewers	2
Proactive personality and academic procrastination in graduate students: Their chain-mediation by research self-efficacy and learning adaptability	2
Proactive personality and career success of higher education teachers: The mediating effects of job crafting	2
Corporate ethical values and ethical work climate influences on employees’ helping behaviour in a developing country’s banking sector setting	2
Teaching and researching motivation	2
How loneliness influences the city identity of Chinese migrant children: A moderated mediation model	2
The “double-edged sword” effect of social media usage on postgraduate student creativity	2
Childhood traumatic grief counselling: A South African case study	2
Relational importance in early and middle adulthood age groups in South Africa	2
Psychological empowerment and professional well-being of Chinese kindergarten teachers: The mediating effect of professional pressure	2

Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives	2
Grit and its relation to well-being among first-year South African university students	2
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students	2
Areas of work–life and psychological reward satisfaction among new Chinese graduate nurses: The moderating role of psychological capital	2
Incident and persistent poor sleep quality and associated factors among a rural ageing population in South Africa: A longitudinal study	2
“Just smile and wave”: Workplace requirements and emotional labour of academic staff at a South African university	2
Group membership, social identification and mental health: A test of social cure or curse narrative in resource-poor communities in Ghana	2
Online risk exposure and mental health in Chinese junior high school students: A latent profile analysis	2
“I’m angry with my mother”: Lived psychosocial experiences of adolescents with peri-natal-acquired HIV in Limpopo, South Africa	2
Correlates of job search behaviour among unemployed job seekers in Ghana: A mediation model	2
Mental health, lifestyle factors and subsequent falls among ageing adults in South Africa	2
To err is human; to forgive, divine: A scoping review of workplace forgiveness experiences	2
Childhood emotional abuse and gamebullying among Chinese youths: The mediating roles of mindfulness and Machiavellianism	2
The psychological well-being of schoolteachers in South Africa: A critical review	2
Linking exploitative leadership and employees’ work–family conflict: The roles of employees’ power distance orientation and emotional exhaustion	2
Prevalence and predictors of comorbid current alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use among school adolescents in Liberia and Mauritius	2
Family quality of life of Ghanaian families raising people with intellectual disability	2
Self-esteem and interpersonal difficulties of college students: Influences of self-control and self-concept	2
Kindergarten teachers’ objective career success and subjective well-being: The mediating role of professional identity	2
Understanding general pedagogical knowledge influences on sustainable teacher well-being: A qualitative exploratory study	2
Cumulative risk and school bullying experiences: Effects of moral disengagement and gender	2
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice	2
Overqualification perception and employee voice: Mediation by dual path autonomous and controlled motivation	2
Beauty and materiality: Subjective social class mediation of self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism in Chinese college students	2
Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms	2
Sense of power and online trolling among college students: Mediating effects of self-esteem and moral disengagement	2
Self-consciousness and grit in rural adolescents: Moderation by self-esteem and mediation by achievement motivation	2
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre	2
Achieving career marketability through helping others: A moderated mediation model	2