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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining the Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Student Generational Status, and Exam Performance in Emerging Adult Undergraduates	40
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality, Ethnic Identity, and Romantic Attachment in Asian American Emerging Adults	34
We Are Together, but How Much Are We Truly ‘We’?: A Dyadic Approach With Turkish Emerging Adults	28
The Hope and Goals of Youth Experiencing Homelessness	26
Understanding Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment, Biological Sex, and Emotion Reactivity Among Emerging Adults	26
Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of Embracing Your Life: An Online Self-Compassion Program for Emerging Adults	26
Turkish Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Relationship Mindfulness Measure in an Emerging Adult Sample	24
Pathway Out of School, Social Bonds, and Criminal Involvement Across Emerging Adulthood	24
A Helping Hand Isn’t Always So Helpful: Parental Autonomy Support Moderates the Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Emerging Adults	23
“I’ll Find My Place. It’s Going to Take Some Time, Though”: Neighborhood Place Attachment in Emerging Adulthood	23
Rejected by Caregivers but Connected to Others: Resilience Factors and Negative Mental Health Outcomes Among LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults	21
Longitudinal Associations Between Academic and Social Adjustment Among Chinese College Freshmen: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms	21
Perceived Influence of Social Media, Identity, and Mental Health Outcomes	20
Exploring Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood: A Qualitative Study	19
Mental Health Needs and Help-Seeking Behaviors Among First-Year University Students Amidst COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Inquiry	17
How Do Young Adults Feel About Receiving “Likes” on Social Media? The Moderating Role of Shyness and Cybervictimization	17
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	16
Political Socialization Among Young Adults in Minnesota	15
The Role of the Nurturant Family Environment During Adolescence in Predicting Young Adult Positive Development	14
Perceived Efficacy in Initiating Romantic Relationships and Single Emerging Adults’ Well-Being	14
Planning for Parenthood: Using Sociodemographic Characteristics to Predict Expectations for the Timing and Number of Children Among Emerging Adults	13
The Role of Trait Impulsivity on Suicidality in the Emerging Adult in Kenya	13
Clarifying the Conceptualization and Measurement of Motivations for Solitude: A Structural Analysis	12
The Role of Self-Esteem on the Relation Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Depression Symptoms in College Students	11
Construct Diversity in Measures of Helicopter Parenting in Emerging Adulthood	11

Multi-Method Assessment of Self-Regulation as a Moderator of the Associations Between Social Support and Service Use With Mental Health in LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults	11
Emerging Adult Mental Health Resource Access, Use, and Sufficiency During COVID-19	10
Black Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Perceived Neighborhood Quality	10
Alcohol and Cannabis Use Within Emerging Adults’ Committed Romantic Relationships: Associations With Relationship Functioning and Quality of Life	10
COVID-19 Vaccine Communications on Instagram and Vaccine Uptake in Young Adults: A Content Assessment and Public Engagement Analysis	10
The Dysregulation Profile and Substance Use: Investigating Their Co-Variation From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood	9
Shifting the Resilience Narrative: A Qualitative Study of Resilience in the Canadian Post-secondary Context	9
Lifestyle Behavior Patterns During the Transition From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Associations With Mental Health and Wellbeing	9
How Multiethnic-Racial Emerging Adults Describe and Understand Their Parents’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices	8
A Cross-National Study on Prosocial Behaviors in Emerging Adulthood During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
A Diary Study of the Within-Person Associations Between Daily Stressors and Negative Affect Among Post-Secondary Students With Recent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Engagement	8
Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems and Self-Esteem: Two Multiple Mediation Models With Social Relationships	8
“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	8
Research into Transition to Adulthood in Persons with Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review	8
The Lithuanian Version of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale: Factor Structure and Latent Profiles in Emerging Adulthood	8
Perceptions About Research Participation Among Emerging Adults With Serious Mental Illnesses	7
Social Withdrawal, Solitude, and Existential Concerns in Emerging Adulthood	7
Navigating Friendship Formation in the Digital Era: The Role of Value Congruence in Emerging Adulthood	7
Recognising Foster Family Practices as a Form of Extended Care for Emerging Adults Transitioning out of Long-Term Fostering	7
Attachment and Breakup Distress: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies	7
A Qualitative Investigation of the Positive and Negative Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Post-Secondary Students’ Mental Health and Well-Being	7
COVID-19 Racism, Depressive Symptoms, Drinking to Cope Motives, and Alcohol Use Severity Among Asian American Emerging Adults	7
Trajectory of Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Romantic Relationship Breakup: Characterizing the “Natural Course” of Response and Recovery in Young Adults	7
Empirically Derived Psychological Profiles of College Students: Differential Associations With COVID-19 Impact and Social Adjustment	7
Why Am I Even Called An Emerging Adult? An Analysis of Adulthood Experience Among Students From Poland, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Spain, and the USA	7
Narratives of Racially/Ethnically Diverse Genderqueer & Non-binary Identities in the U.S. Context of Trans*normativity and Whiteness	7
Navigating Identity Uncertainty: Identity Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Perfectionism, Goal Orientation, and Emerging Adults’ Identity Processing Styles	6
Within- and Between-Person Loneliness and Self-Esteem During Emerging Adulthood: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties	6
Satisfaction, Intimacy and Conflict in Canadian Couples: An Analysis of Change from Adolescence to Adulthood	6
Profiles of Black Emerging Adults Exposure to Racism-Based Police Violence and Associated Mental Health Outcomes	6
Romantic Attachment and Emerging Adults’ Future Expectations: Moderation Role of Self-Regulation	6
Taking It Day by Day: Reasons for Daily Changes in University Belonging	6
Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Managing Social Group Disruptions	6
Resilience, Social Support, and Health in Emerging Adults With and Without Chronic Health Conditions	6
Friendship-Related Stress and Alcohol Use Among Post-college Emerging Adults	6
Overt and Subtle Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being: Examining the Mediating and Moderating Role of Ethnic-Racial Identity Among Emerging Adults	5
Beyond Cuddling Canines: Exploring Students’ Perceptions of the Importance of Touch in an On-Campus Canine-Assisted Intervention	5
Gendered Racial Identity, Positive Health Practices, and Mental Health Among Black Adult Women	5
Parenting Centrality in Emerging Adulthood	5
Effects of a Parent-Based Intervention on Positive and Negative Alcohol and Cannabis Consequences Among First Year College Students	5
Link Between Parent-Emerging Adult Relationship Quality and Emerging Adult Physical Health: An Examination of Mediators and Moderators	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
Quarter-life Crisis Episodes in Emerging Adulthood: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Data From Eight Countries	5
The Associations Among Self-Isolation During COVID-19, Depressive Symptoms, and Financial Stress: The Moderation of Technology Use for Relationship Maintenance	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
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	5
Positive Youth Development Mediates the Relations Between Religiousness, Altruism, and Empathy Among Southeast Asian Emerging Adults	5
To What Extent Do Young Adults Meet the Five Needs for Independence? A Latent Class Analysis	5

Multiplicity Matters: The Development of Multiple Interests During Dynamic Institutional Transitions	5
Affective Responsivity to Daily Stressors is Amplified in Young Females	5
Emerging Strengths: Challenges and Coping Strategies in Emerging Adulthood Among at-Risk Young-Adult Arab Palestinians in Israel	5
Associations Between Parental Psychological Control and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Negative Emotions: The Role of Resilience and Emotion Regulation	5
Does the Gender of Your Friends Matter for Sexist Attitudes About Women?	5
From Risk to Resilience? Hazardous Drinking Trajectories in and Beyond the Last Years of University Life	5
An Exploratory Investigation of Associations Between Personal and Social Identity Among White, Heterosexual, Cisgender Young Adults in the U.S.	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
Pain Severity and Mental Health of Lifetime Trauma Exposed Young Adults: The Role of Emotion Dysregulation	5
I Felt Like I Was Getting to Be My Own Person: Exploring the Impact of Cultural Master Narratives on Identity Development During Student Exchange	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
Resilience in the Kosovo Context: A Qualitative Study of Young Adults	5
The Motivation to Have a Child Scale (MCS): Adaptation and Validation in the Italian Context	5
Prosocial Behaviors During Adolescence Predict Economic Outcomes in Young Adulthood	4
‘It Keeps the Connection Alive’: A Qualitative Analysis of Social Networking Site Use and Mental Health in Emerging Adults Through the Lens of a Novel Trans-diagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Conceptual	4
Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Emotion Efficacy Scale – 2 in a Sample of Turkish Emerging Adults	4
“Where’s My People?”: An Investigation of the Structure and Content of Black and Latinx College Students’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Narratives	4
The Theory of Emerging Adulthood in Latin America: A Scoping Review	4
The Resilience of Emerging Adults in a Stressed Industrialised Environment in Eswatini	4
An Exploration of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships Experienced by Emerging Adults During the Covid-19 Lockdowns in England	4
Examining Predictors of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Reveals Across the First Year of University	4
Evolution and Research Trends About Emerging Adulthood: A Bibliometric Analysis	4
Hazardous Drinking Mediates the Relation Between Externalizing Personality and Reduced Adherence to COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines in University Students	4
Emerging Adults With a Suicide Attempt History Text More Emotionally With Peers than Family Members	4
Does Your Childhood Attachment Make You Bully Your Lover? The Role of Rejection Sensitivity and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction	4
Unequally Indebted: Debt by Education, Race, and Ethnicity and the, Accumulation of Inequality in Emerging Adulthood	4
Intergenerational Upward and Downward Social Mobility: The Role of Intelligence, Effortful Control, Assertiveness, and Peer Competence in Early Adolescence	4
Different Paths, Different Passions: Sexual Passion in Emerging Adults	4
Young Adult Disclosure to Parents: Developmental Trajectories and Links to Substance Use in the United States	4
Measurement Invariance of the Spanish Brief Version of the Experiences in Close Relationships for Assessing Adult Attachment in Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Chilean Emerging Adults	4
Is the Way I was Raised Linked to How I Love? Perceived Parenting and Implicit Theories of Relationships	4
The Experience of Emerging Adult Daughters Caring for a Parent With Advanced Disease	4
The Moderating Role of Discrimination in the Association between Same-Race/Ethnicity Friends and Negative Ethnic-Racial Identity Affect over Time	4
Emerging Adults’ Experience of Mindful Parenting: Distinct Associations With Their Dispositional and Interpersonal Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Adjustment	4
The Association Between Autonomy Need Satisfaction and Perceived Romantic Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Openness	4
Emerging Adulthood: Impacts of Adult Care on Education, Work, and Well-Being	4
Special Issue Call for Papers: Advances in Recovery Science for Emerging Adults With Substance Use Disorders	4
Emerging Adulthood in Pakistan: Lived Experiences and Mental Health Implications	4