OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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

Article	Citations
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	40
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	35
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	27
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	25
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	23
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	15
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	13
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	13
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	12
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	12
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	12
Victimization in bullying and cyberbullying and organized physical activity: The mediating effect of physical self-concept in adolescents	11
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	10
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	10
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	10
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	9
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	9
The pleasure of thinking in human development	9
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	9
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	9
Understanding future thinking among school-age children : A review of studies	9
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	8
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	8
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	8
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	8

Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	7
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	7
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	7
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	7
Self-rated physical attractiveness and its relation to psychological well-being across adolescence	6
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	6
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	6
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	6
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	6
Popularity matters: Moderating role of popularity on the relation between perceived peer pressure for intervention and Chinese adolescents’ bystander behaviours in bullying	5
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	5
Correction	5
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	5
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
The quality of mother-child feeding interactions during COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study on an Italian sample	4
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	4
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	4
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	4
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective	4
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	4
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	4
A matter of style? Parenting behaviors of mothers of typically-developing children, children with mild intellectual disability, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children	4
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	3
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	3
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	3
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	3
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	3
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	3
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	3
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults	3
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	2
Growing up in a challenging environment: A cultural analysis of self-regulation development in poverty	2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	2
Development of civic and political engagement in schools: A structural equation model of democratic school characteristics’ influence on different types of participation	2
Vulnerability to early stressful life events: The moderating role of HOMER1 gene in the gene × environment interaction	2
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study	2
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	2
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
The influence of tool use experience on efficient grasping in children	2
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms	2
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity	2
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation	2
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions	2
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 chi	2
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	2
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals	2
Newborns’ ability to match non-speech audio-visual information in the absence of temporal synchrony	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2

Gender influences on children’s selective trust of adult testimony in Iranian context	2
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles	2
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes	2
Construct validity of the Coding Interactive Behaviour instrument for fathers of infants	1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	1
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence	1
Intersubjectivity in interactions between breastfeeding infants and their mothers: a longitudinal observational study in the first year of life	1
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	1
Teachers’ compassionate love, teachers’ esteem and students’ attitudes towards the justice system: The mediating role of school belonging	1
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	1
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	1
Children’s Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with attitudes, family structure, and mothers’ Well-being	1
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	1
Profiles of parental involvement, adolescent activity, and trust and collaboration: adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and socioeconomic status	1
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	1
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries	1
What factors contribute to LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration? The roles of general and LGBTQ+ moral disengagement	1
Parenting styles and its relations with personal and social adjustment beyond adolescence: Is the current evidence enough?	1