OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Emerging Adulthood is 4. 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
Understanding Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment, Biological Sex, and Emotion Reactivity Among Emerging Adults	79
Turkish Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Relationship Mindfulness Measure in an Emerging Adult Sample	58
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality, Ethnic Identity, and Romantic Attachment in Asian American Emerging Adults	55
Mental Health Needs and Help-Seeking Behaviors Among First-Year University Students Amidst COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Inquiry	50
The Career-Related Parental Involvement Scale: Development and Validation Among College Senior Emerging Adults in India and the U.S.	47
A Helping Hand Isn’t Always So Helpful: Parental Autonomy Support Moderates the Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Emerging Adults	41
Examining the Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Student Generational Status, and Exam Performance in Emerging Adult Undergraduates	39
The Hope and Goals of Youth Experiencing Homelessness	33
Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of Embracing Your Life: An Online Self-Compassion Program for Emerging Adults	33
Exploration of Emerging Adult Virgins’ Difficulties	30
Perceived Influence of Social Media, Identity, and Mental Health Outcomes	22
Longitudinal Associations Between Academic and Social Adjustment Among Chinese College Freshmen: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms	20
Exploring Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood: A Qualitative Study	19
The Influence of COVID-19 on Stress, Substance Use, and Mental Health Among Postsecondary Students	17
Political Socialization Among Young Adults in Minnesota	17
“He was like, my ride or die”: Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging Adults’ Perspectives on Living With Pets During the Transition to Adulthood	17
It’s is Time to Make More Goals So I Can Keep Pushing: Hope, Growth, and Well-Being Among Young Black Women	17
The Role of Trait Impulsivity on Suicidality in the Emerging Adult in Kenya	15
Predictors of Attitudes Toward Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancers in College Students	14
Planning for Parenthood: Using Sociodemographic Characteristics to Predict Expectations for the Timing and Number of Children Among Emerging Adults	14
Perceived Efficacy in Initiating Romantic Relationships and Single Emerging Adults’ Well-Being	14
COVID-19 Vaccine Communications on Instagram and Vaccine Uptake in Young Adults: A Content Assessment and Public Engagement Analysis	13
Exploring Relationships Between Grit, Belonging, Institutional Compassion, Pandemic Stress, and Goal Progress Among Emerging Adult Post-Secondary Students	13
The Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Risk-Taking Behaviors in Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Resilience and Gender Difference	13
Re-Assessment and Extension: An Ongoing Evaluation of The System for Adult Growth and Emergence-Foundations, a Modified DBT Program to Aid Emerging Adults With Emotion Regulation and Transition	13

Selection and Socialization Effects of Living On vs. Off Campus	13
Black Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Perceived Neighborhood Quality	12
Shifting the Resilience Narrative: A Qualitative Study of Resilience in the Canadian Post-secondary Context	12
Alcohol and Cannabis Use Within Emerging Adults’ Committed Romantic Relationships: Associations With Relationship Functioning and Quality of Life	12
Religious Socialization and Self-Definition Among Black Undergraduate Women Attending Predominantly White Institutions	12
A Diary Study of the Within-Person Associations Between Daily Stressors and Negative Affect Among Post-Secondary Students With Recent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Engagement	12
Emerging Adult Mental Health Resource Access, Use, and Sufficiency During COVID-19	12
Attachment and Breakup Distress: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies	11
Navigating Identity Uncertainty: Identity Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems and Self-Esteem: Two Multiple Mediation Models With Social Relationships	11
“If You are Going to Step on This Campus, You Have to Get Vaccinated”: A Qualitative Understanding of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Emerging Adults Returning to College Campuses	11
Research into Transition to Adulthood in Persons with Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review	11
College, Career, Commitment, Oh My: How Emerging Adult Women Balance Romantic Relationships, Career Plans, and Financial Stability	10
Trajectory of Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Romantic Relationship Breakup: Characterizing the “Natural Course” of Response and Recovery in Young Adults	9
Overparenting and Emerging Adult Development: A Systematic Review	9
How Multiethnic-Racial Emerging Adults Describe and Understand Their Parents’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices	9
A Qualitative Investigation of the Positive and Negative Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Post-Secondary Students’ Mental Health and Well-Being	8
Workplace Experiences of Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Social-Ecological Perspective	8
Social Withdrawal, Solitude, and Existential Concerns in Emerging Adulthood	8
Narratives of Racially/Ethnically Diverse Genderqueer & Non-binary Identities in the U.S. Context of Trans*normativity and Whiteness	8
Empirically Derived Psychological Profiles of College Students: Differential Associations With COVID-19 Impact and Social Adjustment	8
Identity Development and Well-Being Among Nonreligious and Christian Emerging Adults in the Central United States	8
Meaning-Making Profiles During Emerging Adulthood: A Person-Oriented Approach in the Context of Romantic and Working Conditions	8
Self-Esteem and Real Self and False Self Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults: The Moderating Role of Social Anxiety	8
Inner Peace in a Global Crisis: A Case Study of Supported Spiritual Individuation in Acute Onset Phase of COVID-19	8
COVID-19 Racism, Depressive Symptoms, Drinking to Cope Motives, and Alcohol Use Severity Among Asian American Emerging Adults	8
Satisfaction, Intimacy and Conflict in Canadian Couples: An Analysis of Change from Adolescence to Adulthood	7
Taking It Day by Day: Reasons for Daily Changes in University Belonging	7
Believing in Achieving: The Impact of Role Salience and Anticipated Work–Family Conflict on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Emerging Adult Women	7
Recognising Foster Family Practices as a Form of Extended Care for Emerging Adults Transitioning out of Long-Term Fostering	7
Overt and Subtle Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being: Examining the Mediating and Moderating Role of Ethnic-Racial Identity Among Emerging Adults	7
The Associations Among Self-Isolation During COVID-19, Depressive Symptoms, and Financial Stress: The Moderation of Technology Use for Relationship Maintenance	7
Daily Exercise and Alcohol Use Among Young Adult College Students	6
Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Managing Social Group Disruptions	6
Perfectionism, Goal Orientation, and Emerging Adults’ Identity Processing Styles	6
A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Resilience Systems in Young Adults	6
Resilience, Social Support, and Health in Emerging Adults With and Without Chronic Health Conditions	6
Romantic Attachment and Emerging Adults’ Future Expectations: Moderation Role of Self-Regulation	6
Associations Between Parental Psychological Control and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Negative Emotions: The Role of Resilience and Emotion Regulation	6
Effects of Receiving Genetic Ancestry Results on Emerging Adults’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Affirmation	6
Friendship-Related Stress and Alcohol Use Among Post-college Emerging Adults	6
Profiles of Black Emerging Adults Exposure to Racism-Based Police Violence and Associated Mental Health Outcomes	6
Does the Gender of Your Friends Matter for Sexist Attitudes About Women?	5
“It Is Not the End of Parenting”: Extended Parenthood and Child Launching Experiences Among Middle-Aged Korean American Mothers	5
Closing Commentary, Opening Conversations: Liminal Reflections on Decent Work, Emerging Adulthood, and Social Justice	5
From Risk to Resilience? Hazardous Drinking Trajectories in and Beyond the Last Years of University Life	5
Beyond Cuddling Canines: Exploring Students’ Perceptions of the Importance of Touch in an On-Campus Canine-Assisted Intervention	5
Communion Among Community-Recruited Emerging Adults: Testing Descriptive and Inferential Questions	5
Relationship Between Personality Traits and Emotional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Canadian Emerging Adults	5
Perceived COVID-19 Threat, Psychological Distress, and Increases in Alcohol and Cannabis Use at the Onset of the Pandemic in Racially Diverse Emerging Adults	5

LGBTQ+ College Students’ Engagement in COVID-Protective and COVID-Risk Behaviors	5
Gendered Racial Identity, Positive Health Practices, and Mental Health Among Black Adult Women	5
Link Between Parent-Emerging Adult Relationship Quality and Emerging Adult Physical Health: An Examination of Mediators and Moderators	5
To What Extent Do Young Adults Meet the Five Needs for Independence? A Latent Class Analysis	5
Resilience in the Kosovo Context: A Qualitative Study of Young Adults	5
Affective Responsivity to Daily Stressors is Amplified in Young Females	5
College Women’s Memorable Sexual Messages From Mothers, Fathers, Friends/Peers, and Online Media: A Mixed-Methods Latent Class Analysis	5
The Role of Homework Completion During Adolescence on Education and Income Levels in Emerging Adulthood: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial With Females in Out-Of-Home Care	5
‘I Felt Like Being Upgraded’: Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Socioeconomic Resources in Relation to Their Vocational Identity Development in Turkey	5
“Why Couldn’t We?”: Experiences of Adversity, Cultural Strengths and Support Among First, Second, and Third+ Generation Mexican-origin Youth in Los Angeles	5
Multiplicity Matters: The Development of Multiple Interests During Dynamic Institutional Transitions	4
Friendship Conflict, Drinking to Cope, and Alcohol-Related Problems: A Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model	4
Using Narrative Vignettes to Understand the Misuse and Diversion of Stimulants Among College Students With and Without a Prescription	4
Hazardous Drinking Mediates the Relation Between Externalizing Personality and Reduced Adherence to COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines in University Students	4
Positive Youth Development Mediates the Relations Between Religiousness, Altruism, and Empathy Among Southeast Asian Emerging Adults	4
Depressive Symptoms, Perceived Stress, Self-Compassion and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Emerging Adults: An Examination of the Between and Within-Person Associations Over Time	4
Evolution and Research Trends About Emerging Adulthood: A Bibliometric Analysis	4
The Role of Individual and Contextual Resources Among Italian Emerging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Person- and Variable-Centered Approach Within the Positive Youth Development Framework	4
I Felt Like I Was Getting to Be My Own Person: Exploring the Impact of Cultural Master Narratives on Identity Development During Student Exchange	4
Finding Silver Linings: A Mixed Methods Analysis of COVID-19’s Challenges and Opportunities for College Students’ Functioning and Outlook	4
Is the Way I was Raised Linked to How I Love? Perceived Parenting and Implicit Theories of Relationships	4
Changes in Depressive Symptoms, Physical Symptoms, and Sleep-Wake Problems From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Emerging Adults: Inequalities by Gender, Socioeconomic Position, and Race	4
An Exploration of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships Experienced by Emerging Adults During the Covid-19 Lockdowns in England	4