European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Developmental Psychology 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.)
ArticleCitations
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence80
Balancing online and offline worlds: leisure contexts and Positive Youth Development in adolescence71
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents42
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale36
Properties of the teacher-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Dysregulation Profile in Italian preschoolers22
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization21
Three decades of ‘Dutch Protocol’ research has not produced reliable evidence16
Youth prevention in a changing society15
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?13
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire12
The psychometric properties of the parent-reported reactive-proactive aggression Questionnaire10
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization10
Innovations of the journal10
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?10
Between interest and activism: a person-centred approach to political participation among Greek adolescents9
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences9
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes9
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence9
Real-world evidence in transgender medicine: whose evidence, and for what?8
Factors related to internet gaming disorder: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents in Türkiye and the United Kingdom8
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences8
Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale8
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure7
The pleasure of thinking in human development7
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production7
Testing auditory social cognition precursors in 12-month-old infants through remote videoconference setting6
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites6
Highly sensitive children and pro-environmental behaviours: the mediating role of connectedness to nature6
Is “rapid-onset” gender dysphoria in adolescence a new clinical phenomenon?5
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns5
The Dutch approach for transgender adolescents; past, present and future perspectives5
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions5
Peer pressure and adolescents’ bullying perpetration: Anger rumination as a mediator and frustrated interpersonal needs as a moderator5
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China5
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens5
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children5
Mental rotation of 3D objects is linked to motor skills in preschoolers5
Relationship between imaginary companions and everyday behaviours in Japanese preschoolers5
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence5
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health4
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development4
Visual preferences for biological motion following the stepping reflex in five-month-old infants4
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)4
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability4
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire4
From environment to genes… and back to the environment4
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior4
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth4
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment4
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample4
Correction4
Classroom ethnic diversity and bullying: exploring the role of students’ ethnicity and classroom moral disengagement3
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger3
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations3
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective3
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament3
The attainment of crawling as context for conflict, negative affect, and physical aggression3
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic3
Moving beyond deficit ideology: a transnational perspective3
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts3
Student engagement and burnout profiles among elementary school students – stability and relations to academic performance3
Children’s gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour3
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties2
The relationship between GD and ED in adolescents seeking for medical GR2
Uncertainty, moral distress, and the role of clinical ethics in transgender care for adolescents2
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown2
A systematic review and meta-analysis on the strange stories task to assess the mentalizing abilities of individuals with autism spectrum disorder2
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping2
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals2
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults2
A brief positive psychology intervention implemented in schools: a quasi-experimental pilot study on its impact on early and middle adolescents’ mental health2
Adolescent bodies and brains in flux: exploring therapeutic pathways for co-occurring anorexia nervosa and gender distress2
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire1
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study1
Understanding photo investment in adolescence and emerging adulthood: an examination of body-esteem, self-esteem and sex1
Training preschoolers with language games: enhancing theory of mind, emotion understanding, prosocial orientation, and language ability1
Assessing personality functioning in adolescence: Italian validation of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for Adolescents (DEQ-A)1
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms1
Vocational identity and cognitive emotion regulation among first-year university students: are they related?1
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education1
Is maternal age associated with the quality mother-child feeding interactions? An explorative study1
Psychometric properties of a group-based measure of children’s growth mindset1
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries1
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian1
Longitudinal associations between parental early psychological distress and children’s emotional and behavioural problems during early childhood and self-reported social functioning in 11-year-old chi1
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions1
Testing maltreatment and psychopathic traits in the distinction of variants in adolescents in residential care1
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study1
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample1
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence1
Profiles of parental involvement, adolescent activity, and trust and collaboration: adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and socioeconomic status1
Small mirrors: social reflections of body image and peer preferences in preschool children1
Intergenerational transmission of psychological capital through parental mental health to Chinese preschool children’s psychological resilience1
A contribution to the Italian validation of the Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC)1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support1
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes1
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles1
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation1
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity1
The Polish version of the empathy questionnaire for children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance1
Defense against proliferation in developmental psychology1
Exploring the link between maternal mind-mindedness at 14 months and toddlers’ emotion regulation at 24 months: the moderating effects of toddler sex and temperament1
Do college students use theory of mind in a preference-based game?1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?1
The development of gender biases in the attribution of distributive fairness1
Psychometric properties of the French version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R)1
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