OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cyberpsychology-Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 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
No relationships between self-reported Instagram use or type of use and mental well-being: A study using a nationally representative online sample of UK adults	33
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	21
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	21
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	18
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	17
Reducing transphobia with the narratives of transgender YouTubers	15
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	15
The relationships among relatedness frustration, affiliation motivation, and WeChat engagement, moderated by relatedness satisfaction	14
Adolescents’ ethnic hate speech exposure and ethnic bullying perpetration: The moderating role of tolerance towards diversity and gender	13
An initial investigation of the role of depressive and anxious syndromes in Problematic Internet Use in adolescence and young adults	13
User experience of mixed reality applications for healthy ageing: A systematic review	12
Tackling hate speech online: The effect of counter-speech on subsequent bystander behavioral intentions	12
The use of online social network sites during the COVID-19 pandemic as a protective or risk factor for well-being of university students	12
Childhood risks and problematic smartphone use: Dual processes of life history strategy and psychological distress	11
Problematic internet use prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Unveiling the depths of Tinder: Decoding the dark tetrad and sociosexuality in motives behind online dating	11
Conceptualizing social media contingent self-esteem: Associations between echo chambers, contingent self-esteem, and problematic social media use	10
The role of negative and positive urgency in the relationship between craving and symptoms of problematic video game use	10
Attachment style and social media fatigue: The role of usage-related stressors, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity	10
Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown	9
Profiles of problematic social networking site use: A cross-cultural validation of a scale with Spanish and Mexican adolescents	9
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	9
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	9
When feeling positive is being “in the zone”: How challenge optimality causes changes in positive affect and flow	9
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	9

Prevalence and impact of Internet Gaming Disorder: A population-based study	9
What is the post-game depression? A narrative inquiry	8
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	8
Is undergraduates’ adoption of the Internet of Things rational? The role of risk perception	8
The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (ONNUS)	8
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	8
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	8
Can time flow differently if you are a virtual reality newcomer?	7
How it feels to be “left on read”: Social surveillance on Snapchat and young individuals’ mental health	6
Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses	6
Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and U. S. adolescents’ risky online experiences	6
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	6
Sexting during social isolation: Predicting sexting-related privacy management during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	6
Acceptance and self-protection in government, commercial, and interpersonal surveillance contexts: An exploratory study	5
Social media and eating disorder psychopathology: A systematic review	5
The effects of age-morphing technology on older adult issue campaigns: The interplay of construal level, perceived probability, and message appeal	5
Internalizing personality traits and coping motivations for gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-lagged panel mediation analysis	5
Are you always ignoring attitude-challenging messages? Eye-tracking selective exposure on Chinese’ lowly involved news consumption	5
Problematic use of social media in adolescents or excessive social gratification? The mediating role of nomophobia	5
They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation	5
It’s now or never! Future discounting in the application of the online privacy calculus	5
You teach me and I’ll teach you: The role of social interactions on positivity elicited from playing Pokémon GO	5
An exploratory study of selfie motivations and their relation to sociability and shyness among youth	5
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals	4
The socially poor get richer, the rich get poorer: The effect of online self-disclosure on social connectedness and well-being is conditional on social anxiety and audience size	4
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	4
Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions	4
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	4
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	4
How public interactions via WeChat moments predict the emotional well-being of Chinese seniors and emerging seniors: The moderating roles of perceived self-network discrepancy and age	4
“Hang in there mama!” The role of online parenting forums in maternal mental health	4
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	4
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	3
The temporality and accessibility of message types (TAMT) model: Examining social media message types and the associations between exposure to alcohol and binge drinking	3
Adverse childhood experiences in persons with excessive and destructive online behaviour	3
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	3
Exploring the dimensionality of Fear of Missing Out: Associations with related constructs	3
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	3
Social media use does not increase individual-based relative deprivation: Evidence from a five-year RI-CLPM	3
The sense of responsibility and bystanders’ prosocial behavior in cyberbullying: The mediating role of compassion and the moderating roles of moral outrage and moral disgust	3
Solitary and joint online pornography use during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates	2
You can’t judge me! Virtual observers do not influence moral judgments in virtual environments	2
Relationship between passion for playing video games and behavioral school engagement: Mediation through time spent playing	2
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	2
Working conditions and cybersecurity: Time pressure, autonomy and threat appraisal shaping employees’ security behavior	2
Drivers and social effects of the decision to turn on one’s camera during videoconferencing in groups	2
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	2
Online dating apps and the association with emotional reactions: A survey on the motivations, compulsive use, and subjective online success of Chinese young adults in online dating	2
Willingness to self-disclose cyber victimization to friends or parents: Gender differences in cyber victimization a year later	2

The use of artificial intelligence in mental health services in Turkey: What do mental health professionals think?	2
“It's just more complicated!”: Experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities when navigating digital sexual fields	2
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	2
The selfie production model: Rethinking selfie taking, editing, and posting practices	2
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	2
Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19	2
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	2
Dysfunctional risks of the internet and their overlap in the different stages of adolescence	2
Latent profiles of problematic smartphone use severity are associated with social and generalized anxiety, and fear of missing out, among Chinese high school students	2
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	2
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	2
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	2