OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Psychology in Africa is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mental health literacy in black South African communities	20
Social anxiety and problematic social network site use: The sequential mediating role of self-esteem and self-concept clarity	15
A psychological contract for the digital mindset: Factor analysis of the Psychological Contract Inputs-Outcomes Inventory (PCIOI)	14
How do consumers react to big data-based personalised pricing? A cognition–affect–behaviour perspective	14
Gratitude to nature and pro-environmental behaviour: A moderated mediated model	14
Servant leadership and work performance of public servants: Exploring the mediating role of public service motivation and job satisfaction	12
Community social capital and mental health participation: Test of psychosocial mediators in two resource-poor urban communities in Ghana	12
Interpersonal violence experienced by nurses caring for persons with intellectual disability: A phenomenological study	11
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective	10
Heavy episodic alcohol use among adults: Prevalence and correlates in Central African Republic	9
How psychological contract breach relates to façades of conformity: The mediating role of emotional labour	9
Impact of workplace adversity on well-being of Ghanaian bankers: Do resilience and psychological safety matter?	9
Tourism graduate students’ employability skills: Results and implications of a Zimbabwean study	8
Fear of COVID-19 and job insecurity among hospitality industry employees: The mediating role of happiness	8
The quality of care in correctional facilities in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review of literature	8
Spatiotemporal expectations of apparent motion and the effect of attentional control	8
Negative social interactions and the persistence of depression: Evidence from the women of Westbury, South Africa	7
Wellness needs of academic employees: A case study of a South African university	7
Mindfulness and meaning in life: The mediating effect of self-concept clarity and coping self-efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa , Ann Shuttleworth-Edwards	6
Hope and its relation to grit and subjective well-being among first-year South African university students	6
Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style	6
Mothers’ perceptions of children’s emotional behaviour problems and parenting sense of competence: The mediating role of maternal meta-emotion philosophy	6
Father’s parenting attitude and teacher-child relationships: Mediating role of children’s self-regulation ability	6
Teacher support and student engagement in mathematics: The chain mediating role of academic self-efficacy and achievement goal orientation	6

Strengths mindset and job satisfaction: The mediating role of thriving at work and the moderating role of authentic leadership	6
How and when does employees’ learning goal orientation contribute to taking charge behaviour? The roles of empowering leadership and work-related flow	6
The role of career wellness in living and studying for South African first-year university students	6
Paradoxical leader behaviour effects on employee taking charge: A moderated – mediating model	6
Identity processing styles and personal growth initiative in college students: The mediating role of cultural tightness–looseness	5
The experience machine: How our minds predict and shape reality	5
Socio-demographic characteristics as predictors of psychosocial resources of call centre agents	5
Aspirations and meanings of lighter skin tone in the African context: A rapid review	5
Servant leadership and employee attitudes within a South African state-owned enterprise: Mediation by employee motivation	5
How perspective taking influences obesity stereotypes: The mediating effect of intergroup contact	5
The classroom environment and college students’ being silent/hidden dropouts: The chain of mediating effects of college identification and academic achievement	5
A latent class analysis of adverse childhood life events in Ugandan adolescents	5
Business organisation performance behaviour indicators in Ghana and Kenya: A comparative analysis	5
Cultural Models of Emotions	4
Factor structure in Raven’s Progressive Matrices Plus in sub-Saharan Africa – Benin and Djibouti	4
Exploring the process of harsh parenting on online aggressive behaviour: The mediating role of trait anger	4
Areas of work–life and psychological reward satisfaction among new Chinese graduate nurses: The moderating role of psychological capital	4
Physical exercise and aggressive behaviour among rural children: Cognitive flexibility mediation and peer relationship quality moderation	4
Family quality of life of Ghanaian families raising people with intellectual disability	4
Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives	4
Call centre support staff job crafting and employee engagement: Controlling the effects of sociodemographic characteristics	4
Purposeful rumination on childhood trauma and post-traumatic growth among college students: A moderated mediation model	4
Linking servant leadership to work strains: The mediating effect of strengths use	4
Health provider administration functions, patient satisfaction, and loyalty: Their mediation by patient healthcare service quality perceptions	4
Prevalence and predictors of comorbid current alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use among school adolescents in Liberia and Mauritius	4
Psychological empowerment and professional well-being of Chinese kindergarten teachers: The mediating effect of professional pressure	4
Correlates of lived career calling: The role of perceived calling and organisational cultural identity among police cadets	4
Validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index in the Arab context: Results and implications of a Moroccan study	4
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	4
Defender self-efficacy and defender behaviour in school bullying of primary school pupils: The role of perceived responsibility and sex	4
“It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa	4
Linking exploitative leadership and employees’ work–family conflict: The roles of employees’ power distance orientation and emotional exhaustion	4
Validation of Learning Transfer Inventory System (LTIS) in Cameroon teachers: Measurement invariance and latent mean difference across sex	4
Kindergarten teachers’ objective career success and subjective well-being: The mediating role of professional identity	4
Upward social comparisons on social networking sites (SNSs) and subjective well-being: The mediating role of envy	4
Beauty and materiality: Subjective social class mediation of self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism in Chinese college students	3
The “double-edged sword” effect of social media usage on postgraduate student creativity	3
Mental health, lifestyle factors and subsequent falls among ageing adults in South Africa	3
Teaching and researching motivation	3
Sense of power and online trolling among college students: Mediating effects of self-esteem and moral disengagement	3
Childhood emotional abuse and gamebullying among Chinese youths: The mediating roles of mindfulness and Machiavellianism	3
Authenticity, self-control, and smartphone dependence in adolescence: Path analysis and latent profile analysis	3
Academic researchers’ work stress and work engagement: Hindrance stress appraisal mediation and psychological resilience moderation	3
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre	3
Incident and persistent poor sleep quality and associated factors among a rural ageing population in South Africa: A longitudinal study	3
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students	3
Relational importance in early and middle adulthood age groups in South Africa	3
Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms	3
Proactive personality and academic procrastination in graduate students: Their chain-mediation by research self-efficacy and learning adaptability	3
Influence of career orientations and career guidance need on students’ employability attributes	3

Social support and self-concept clarity as mediators between college students’ passive social network site use and loneliness	3
Group membership, social identification and mental health: A test of social cure or curse narrative in resource-poor communities in Ghana	3
Overqualification perception and employee voice: Mediation by dual path autonomous and controlled motivation	3
How loneliness influences the city identity of Chinese migrant children: A moderated mediation model	3
Attachment and general well-being in breast cancer patients: Mediation of body esteem and social support	3
Self-consciousness and grit in rural adolescents: Moderation by self-esteem and mediation by achievement motivation	3
Correlates of job search behaviour among unemployed job seekers in Ghana: A mediation model	3
Achieving career marketability through helping others: A moderated mediation model	3
The psychological well-being of schoolteachers in South Africa: A critical review	3
Online risk exposure and mental health in Chinese junior high school students: A latent profile analysis	3
Inclusive leadership and employee innovative work behaviours: Testing a psychological empowerment and leader-member exchange moderated-mediation model	3
The qualitative methodology: Preparedness and experiences of journal reviewers	3
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice	3
Proactive personality and career success of higher education teachers: The mediating effects of job crafting	3