OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Developmental Psychology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
School engagement and school burnout profiles during high school – The role of socio-emotional skills	51
Moral disengagement and cyberbullying involvement: A systematic review	50
Parenting styles and its relations with personal and social adjustment beyond adolescence: Is the current evidence enough?	37
Identifying pathways from early adversity to psychopathology: A review on dysregulated HPA axis functioning and impaired self-regulation in early childhood	30
Kindness: a perspective from developmental psychology	24
Children’s Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with attitudes, family structure, and mothers’ Well-being	20
Relations between attachment to mother and father, mentalizing abilities and emotion regulation in adolescents	17
How do children, adolescents, and young adults relate to climate change? Implications for developmental psychology	17
Adolescent brain in a social world: Unravelling the positive power of peers from a neurobehavioral perspective	16
Subtle forms of prejudice in Greek day-care centres. Early childhood educators’ attitudes towards same-sex marriage and children’s adjustment in same-sex families	14
Do the face-to-face actions of adults have an online impact? The effects of parent and teacher responses on cyberbullying among students	13
Gender role identity and gender intensification: Agency and communion in adolescents’ spontaneous self-descriptions	13
Teachers’ responses to bullying: Unravelling their consequences and antecedents. Introduction to the special issue	12
The quality of mother-child feeding interactions during COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study on an Italian sample	12
Teachers’ active responses to bullying: Does the school collegial climate make a difference?	11
Written and visual cyberbullying victimization in adolescence: Shared and unique associated factors	11
The role of bullying-related policies: Understanding how school staff respond to bullying situations	11
Parenting style and practices and children’s externalizing behaviour problems: Mediating role of children’s executive functions	10
Teachers’ knowledge and intervention strategies to handle hate-postings	9
Cross-National evaluation of the ViSC social competence programme: Effects on teachers	9
Testing how teachers’ self-efficacy and student-teacher relationships moderate the association between bullying, victimization, and student self-esteem	9
The association between loneliness and depression among Chinese college students: Affinity for aloneness and gender as moderators	9
Speak up or stay silent: Can teacher responses towards bullying predict victimized students’ disclosure of victimization?	9
The relationship between emotion understanding and social skills in preschoolers: The mediating role of verbal ability and the moderating role of working memory	9
Relationships in transition: maternal and paternal parenting styles and change in sibling dynamics during adolescence	8

Psychometric properties of the Ani Banani Math Test	8
Psychological adjustment of ethnically victimized adolescents: Do teachers’ responses to ethnic victimization incidents matter?	8
A brief measure for school-related achievement emotions: The achievement Emotions Adjective List (AEAL) for secondary students	8
Psychometric properties of Lithuanian versions of empathy questionnaires for children	7
Popularity matters: Moderating role of popularity on the relation between perceived peer pressure for intervention and Chinese adolescents’ bystander behaviours in bullying	7
Examining links between social withdrawal subtypes and internalizing problems among Italian primary school children	7
The development of motor planning strategies in children	7
Maternal prenatal conditional regard orientation and postnatal controlling behaviour as predictors of preschoolers’ helpless coping with failure: A prospective study	7
Domain-specific correlates of parental and romantic identity processes	7
Social cognition during and after kindergarten: The relations between first-order and advanced theories of mind	7
Being visible or being liked? Social status and emotional skills in bullying among young children	7
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	6
Courage in childhood: Classifying the actions of courage performed by elementary school students	6
Warmth, competence, and wellbeing: The relationship between parental support, needs satisfaction, and interpersonal sensitivity in Italian emerging adults	6
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	6
Victimization in bullying and cyberbullying and organized physical activity: The mediating effect of physical self-concept in adolescents	6
Profiles of achievement goal orientations among adolescents with different SES background before and during the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Teachers’ responses to bullying: Next steps for researchers	6
Ethnic-racial identity in Europe: Adapting the identity project intervention in five countries	6
Mental toughness is a mediator of the relationship between positive childhood experiences and wellbeing	6
Replication of the existence of three sensitivity groups in a sample of German adolescents	5
Ready? Set. Go! A school readiness programme designed to boost executive function skills in preschoolers experiencing homelessness and high mobility	5
Using social and emotional learning paradigms to inform a therapeutic intervention for preschool-aged children and their parents	5
Can FRIENDS for Life social-emotional learning programme be used for preventing anxiety and aggression in a school environment: 6 months, 1-year and 1-and-a-half-year follow-up	5
I can succeed, a new social emotional learning program for children based on interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents	5
Whom to trust: Joker or teacher	5
A comparison of mother and father reports of children’s theory of mind: further validation of the children’s social understanding scale	5
Patterns of DNA methylation at specific loci of the dopamine transporter 1 gene and psychopathological risk in trios of mothers, fathers and children	5
Comparing short-term growth in traditional and cyber forms of bullying in early and mid-adolescent students	5
A cross-lagged regression analysis of loneliness and depression: A two-year trace	5
Evaluation of the Support, not Perfection Parenting Program in Serbia	4
An exploratory study of the relationship between motor skills and indicators of cognitive and socio-emotional development in preschoolers	4
Social dominance orientation in children: The validation of the long and short version of the child SDO₆ scale	4
Personality disorder symptomatology in Belgian emerging adults: Associations with identity processes and statuses	4
The effect of childhood maltreatment on college students’ depression symptoms: The mediating role of subjective well-being and the moderating role of MAOA gene rs6323 polymorphism	4
Pubertal timing and externalizing problem behaviours in adolescents: The influence of perceived parental attachments	4
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	4
Teachers’ empathy and likelihood of intervention in hypothetical relational and retrospectively reported bullying situations	4
Profiles and age-related differences in the expression of the three parental burnout dimensions	4
Identity development in the era of globalization: Globalization-based acculturation and personal identity development among Danish emerging adults	4
Self-rated physical attractiveness and its relation to psychological well-being across adolescence	4
Longitudinal link between moral disengagement and bullying among children and adolescents: A systematic review	4
I scratched your back; should you not scratch mine? The expectation of reciprocity in 4- to 6-year-old children following a prosocial investment	3
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	3
Which self-compassion components mediate the relationship between adverse experiences in childhood and borderline features in adolescents?	3
Early mindreading scale: From joint attention to false-belief understanding	3
Evaluation of prosocial actions performed by dynamic shapes at 17 months of age	3
Sensory modulation difficulties and assessment in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review	3
Reliability of salivary cortisol levels in toddlers	3
Parental attachment and adolescent Internet morality: A moderated mediation model	3

A teacher-led motor programme to enhance pre-literacy and motor skills in kindergarten children	3
Exploring the effect of cool and hot EFs training in four-year-old children	3
Age differences in executive functions among Hungarian preschoolers	3
Cross-cultural differences in children’s conceptualizations of happiness at school	3
Student attitudes and perceptions of teacher responses to bullying: An experimental vignette study	3
The impact of attachment to parents and peers on the psychopathic traits of adolescents: A short longitudinal study	3
Effects of forewarnings on children’s and adults’ spontaneous false memories	3
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	3
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	3
Children’s understanding of unintended irony and unsuccessful irony	3
What predicts internal and external mental disorders in adolescent boys and girls? Results from a 10-year longitudinal study	3
The psychometric qualities of a short version of the multidimensional overprotective parenting scale	3
Understanding future thinking among school-age children : A review of studies	3
The acquisition of the cultural life script: children have a less normative and less sequential concept of the life course than adults	3
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	3
Associations of preschoolers’ language skills with aggressive behaviour, positive peer relations, and the hostile intent attribution from preschool to early adolescence	3
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	3
Developmental changes in infants’ object interactions across the transitional period from crawling to walking	3
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	3
Hair cortisol concentrations predict change in girls’ depressive symptoms	2
Rules of intra-individual development in adolescence: A framework	2
Newborns’ ability to match non-speech audio-visual information in the absence of temporal synchrony	2
Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS): Greek adaptation and measurement invariance across time and ethnic groups	2
Human development in times of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The relationship between book reading, national identity, and nationalism among secondary school students	2
A matter of style? Parenting behaviors of mothers of typically-developing children, children with mild intellectual disability, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children	2
An introduction to implementation evaluation of school-based interventions	2
Focus on targeted interventions addressing bullying: what explains their success or failure?	2
Cascades linking school achievement and engagement to the acculturation of immigrant-origin youth	2
Individual predictors of lie acceptability across development	2
The Protective Role of Early Prosocial Behaviours Against Young Turkish Children’s Later Internalizing and Externalizing Problems	2
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	2
Bullying, victimization, and psychopathy in early adolescents: The moderating role of social support	2
Values of adolescents and values prevailing in the classroom are related to adolescents’ psychological adjustment	2