OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Youth & Society 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems	31
Private Tutoring, Sleep Time, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Students in China	29
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics	25
Mechanisms of Driving Adolescents’ Adjustment in Behavior: A Developmental Systems Approach	21
Attachments or Affiliations? The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Peer Relationships—A Qualitative Study Among Norwegian High School Students	20
The Transition to In-Person Schooling Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Latinx Adolescents	18
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	16
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	15
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	15
Bullying Victimization and Weapon Carrying: A Partial Test of General Strain Theory	14
Bidirectional Relationships Between Cyberbystanders’ Roles, Cyberbullying Perpetration, and Justification of Violence	13
Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most	13
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	12
Academic Self-esteem as a Buffer Between Negative Youth Experiences and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents	11
From Context to Perception to Behavior: Predicting Delinquency With the Parental Support-Perceived Parental Competence Cross-Lag	11
Comparing the Depressive Health Profiles Among U.S. Adolescents Who Have Been School Disciplined and School Policed: A Person-Centered Approach	10
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	10
Exploring the School-Based Support for Youths Who Head Households in Limpopo Province, South Africa	10
Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds	10
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors	10
“I Feel Like You Don’t Need Dysphoria to be Trans.”: Emerging Understandings of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents	9
Relations Between Developmental Assets and Youth Gun Violence	9
High School Extracurriculars and Altruistic Behavior in Crises: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Race Differences in Youths’ Attitudes Toward Arming Teachers: Investigating the Role of Procedural Justice	9
“It Makes Them Want to Suffer in Silence Rather Than Risk Facing Ridicule”: Youth Perspectives on Mental Health Stigma	9

Distal and Proximal Stressors Associated With Substance Use among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: The Influence of Race	9
School-Based Discrimination and Social-Emotional Learning Among Latinx Youth: The Moderating Role of School Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	8
Liminal Participation: Young People’s Practices in the Public Sphere Between Exclusion, Claims of Belonging, and Democratic Innovation	8
“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency	8
Introduction to the Special Issue: European Rural NEETs: A Snapshot	7
A study Comparing Text-Based WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Interviews to Understand Early School Dropout	7
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents	7
Navigating Normativity: How German Youth Discuss Activism in a Global Context	7
Mediation Analysis of Internalized Homophobia, Self-esteem and Mental Health in Adolescent Sexual Minority Men: A Repeated Measures Study	7
What About the Kids? Examining the Visitation-Recidivism Relationship Among Incarcerated Juveniles	7
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review	7
Discrimination and Risky Health Behaviors: Examining the Association between Sources of Gender Discrimination and Tobacco Use Among Adolescent Girls	7
Adolescent Perceptions of Teen Suicide: Implications from Focus Groups	7
Cyberbullying and PIU Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association With Adolescents Relationships	6
Community Gender Norms and Gender Gaps in Adolescent Agency in Nepal	6
Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth	6
The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time	6
A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnant in Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina	6
Self-Disclosure, Self-concept, and Friendship’s Perceived Functions among Aggressive and Popular Adolescents	6
From Adolescence to Adulthood: Examining Future Orientation Trajectories and Their Influencing Factors Among Serious Juvenile Offenders	6
Needs of Youth and Parents From Multi-Problem Families in the Search for Youth-Initiated Mentors	6
The Effects of Body Image and Physical Fitness on Academic Performance of Chinese Adolescent: A Mediating Role of Mental Health	6
Pathways from School Belonging to Problematic Online Game Use among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Physical Exercise	5
Chinese Adolescents’ Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities	5
The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Perceived Health and Wellbeing of Young Australian Sport and Physical Activity Participants	5
Fear of Missing Out and Sexting Among Adolescents: Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes	5
Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces	5
Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments	5
Social Norms of Pregnancy and Pregnancy Attitudes Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness	5
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Adolescent Social Network Positions and Lifetime Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence	5
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy	5
The Mediation of Family Context and Youth Depressive Symptoms by Adolescent Emotion Regulation	5
Social Capital and the Higher Education Academic Achievement: Using Cross-Classified Multilevel Models to Understanding the Impact of Society on Educational Outcomes	5
Assessing Longitudinal Impacts of Mentor Role on Youth Outcomes	4
Rehabilitating Beyond Walls: The Role of Informal Spaces in Formal Programs among Young Rehabilitators	4
The Adolescent Self-System and Academic Achievement: Youth Predictors of College Enrollment	4
“In the Moment I Wanted to Kill Myself, and Then After I Didn’t”: A Qualitative Investigation of Suicide Planning, Method Choice, and Method Substitution Among Adolescents Hospitalized Following a Sui	4
Cyber-Ostracism, Depression, and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis	4
The Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Problematic Social Media Use	4
Addressing Students’ Educational Aspirations Through Information Provision: Evidence From Ecuador	4
“They Slow Me Down”: Peer Relationships, School Fights, and the Criminalization of Black Adolescent Development Through School Discipline Policies	4
The Impact of Education on Youth Employability: The Case of Selected Southeastern European Countries	4
The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities	4
A Service Model for Self-Directed Learning of NEET Youth at the Local Government Level	3
Why are Some Victims Also Bullies? The Role of Peer Relationship Management and Anger Regulation in Traditional Bullying	3
The Problematization of Violence Against Trans and Gender-Diverse People: Gender-Bashing and its Structural Relations With Cis-Heteronormativity in Spanish Adolescents	3
An Examination of Ecological Factors Predicting Depressed Mood Among Adolescents	3
What Helps Muslim American Youth to Thrive? The Role of Maternal Promotion of Volitional Functioning and Religiosity in their Civic Engagement	3
Promotive Factors Within Neighborhood, Family, and School Contexts for Adolescents Living in an Urban, High-Burden Community	3
Does Gender Matter? The Mediating Role of Gender Attitudes on the Associations Between Grandparenting Styles and Adolescent Depression Among Skipped-Generation Families in Rural China	3

Outreach Practices of Public Employment Services Targeted at NEET Youth in Poland	3
The Impact of Cyberbullying Victimization on Cyberbullying Among Chinese Junior High School Students: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	3
Frequency of Adequate Sleep and Different Forms of Delinquency Across Adolescence: Evidence From Nationally Representative Samples of Youth	3
Shifting Culture and Minds: Immigrant-Origin Youth Building Critical Consciousness on Social Media	3
“Being Open About Struggle”: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience	3
Moderated Mediating Effects of Earthquake Experiences of Adolescents in the Relationship between Hope, Meaning in Life and Gratitude	3
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression and Anxiety Among Jordanian Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study	3
Do Gender-Based Pathways Influence Mental Health? Examining the Linkages Between Early Child Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Psychological Well-being among Young Ethiopian Women (18–24 years	3
Parental Modeling and Normative Influence in Shaping Teenagers’ Phubbing: An Exploratory Study	3
Exploring the Situational Contexts of Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Adolescent Suicidality: A Partial Test of Minority Stress Theory	3
Social Interaction Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use Among Rural-Urban Adolescents in China: A Moderated Moderated-Mediation Model	3
The Longitudinal Effects of Age of Alcohol Initiation on School Outcomes	2
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural NEETs: Common Patterns and Differences in Various EU Countries	2
Poverty Stifles Ambition: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Perceived Social Fairness in the Future Orientation of Adolescents from Financially Disadvantaged Families	2
The Implications of Executive Functioning on Community Adversity and Violence and Mental Health Outcomes	2
The Multicultural Politics of Opportunity: A Comparative Analysis of the Occupational Aspirations of Immigrant Adolescents	2
“It Goes under the Radar!”: In/Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism from a Canadian Youth Perspective	2
“You are the Father”: Investigating the Relationship Between Adolescent Fatherhood and Suicide Attempt	2
Smartphone Dependency, Happiness, and Social Class Awareness Among Middle School Students in South Korea	2
Remaining Hopeful During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of NGOs in Filling the Social Support Gap for Vulnerable Children	2
Harsh Fathering Longitudinally Predicts Adolescents’ Internet Gaming Addiction via Unfulfilled Psychological Need	2
Ecosystemic and Situational Determinants in the Onset of Youth-Perpetrated Sexual Offending	2
On Outness: Validity Evidence of the Outness Inventory for Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adolescents	2
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Racism Breaks Spirits: Discrimination and BIPOC Adolescent Mental Health	2
Examining the Role of School and Neighborhood Disorder in Early Adolescents’ Future Orientation Development	2
Analysis of Police Intake Data of First-Time and Repeat Runaway Youth	2
The Associations of Sociocultural Pressure, Emotional States, Self-control, and Emotional Eating in Adolescents	2
Personality Underpinnings of Identity: The Mediating Role of Internal Dialogs	2
Linking Teacher Injustice, Conscientiousness, and Academic Dishonesty via Classroom Connectedness: A Moderated-Mediation Model	2
The Association of Substance Use Before Sex and Condomless Sex: The Moderating Effects of Sexual Risk Behaviors, Perceived Sex Approval, and HIV/STI Risk Perception Among Youth	2
The Role of School Context Factors for Gender Role Attitudes: General and Differential Associations Between Female and Male Adolescents	2
School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries	2
Staying Safe or Staying Popular? Popularity and Reputation Concerns Predict Adherence and Adjustment During the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The Impacts of Firearm Violence Exposure on Youth in the U.S: Building the Evidence and the Solutions	2
Initiating an Intrauterine Device: How Adolescent and Young Adult Women Exercise Autonomy in the Decision-Making Process	2
Relationships Among Romantic Myths, Tolerant Attitudes Toward Abuse, and Teen Dating Violence Victimization: The Moderator Role of Gender	2
Popularity Goals and Bullying Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Roles of Popularity Status and Cognitive Empathy	2
Preparing the Next Generation for STEM: Adolescent Profiles Encompassing Math and Science Motivation and Interpersonal Skills and Their Associations With Identity and Belonging	2
The Role of Protective Factors in Moderating the Association Between Racism and Suicidal Ideation or Depression Among Rural Black Youth: A Scoping Review	1
The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness	1
Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing: Youth and Organizational Responses	1
Effects of the Internet Access Environment on Utilization of Tele-Rehabilitation for Adolescents With Visual or Hearing Disabilities	1
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators	1
Young People’s Recommendations for Accessible, Engaging, and Relevant COVID-19 Research Communication in Australia	1
School Burnout and Emotional and Psychological Well-Being in Secondary School Students: Mediating Roles of Resilience and Hope	1
Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth: Does the Location of the Perception Matters?	1
Exploring Key Factors and Conceptualizations for Well-Being in Lower Secondary Education: Embracing Student Voices in the Well-Being Debate	1
“Powerless, But Not Helpless”: Exploring critical consciousness among adolescents in Germany	1
“If I Post Stories With Fire, It’s for You”: Adolescent Flirting Strategies on Instagram	1
Understanding the Impact of Context on Ambition: Gender Role Conformity Negatively Influences Adolescent Boys’ Ambition Scores in an Educational Context	1
Determinants of School Discipline: Examination of Institutional Level Factors Impacting Exclusionary Sanctions	1
Relations Between Violence Exposure and Gun Carriage: Identifying Protective Factors Among African American Youth Living in Low-Income Urban Communities	1
Longitudinal Relationships Between Financial Stress, Career Related Optimism, and Psychological Distress During Emerging Adulthood in Australia	1
Network Brokerage and Self-Rated Popularity Among Lao School-Based Children: Findings From Primary Survey Data	1
Swimming Against the Tide: Young Informal Traders’ Survival Strategies in a Competitive Business Environment in Zimbabwe	1
Social Interaction Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use: The Mediating Roles of Self-concept Clarity and Mood Regulation in Chinese Adolescents	1
The Intervention Effect of Online Mindfulness Training in Alleviating Youths’ Test Anxiety	1
A Latent Profile Analysis of the Consensual and Non-Consensual Sexting Experiences among Canadian Adolescents	1
“We Know About Things Too”: Exploring the Labors of Love Involved in Cultivating Youth Voice in Online Youth Civic Engagement Programs With Youth of Color	1
Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Adolescent Cannabis Use in Washington State	1
Exploring Associations of Positive Relationships and Adolescent Well-Being Across Cultures	1
Impact of Internet Pornography on Chinese Teens: The Third-Person Effect and Attitudes Toward Censorship	1
Patterns of Adolescent Peer Affiliation among Youth At-Risk of Maltreatment	1
Social Contact and Family Contact for Youth with Disabilities	1
Long-term Effects of Material Deprivation on Family Relationships Among Disadvantaged Young People	1
The Link Between Bullying Victimization, Maladjustment, Self-Control, and Bullying: A Comparison of Traditional and Cyberbullying Perpetrator	1
Familial Mentor Support and Black Youths’ Connectedness to Parents Across Adolescence	1
Identifying Father Involvement Profiles Among Chinese Rural Children Using Latent Profile Analysis: The Relations to Depressive Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Parental Relationship	1
Self-Esteem Mediates the Effect of Yoga-Induced Mindfulness on Adolescents’ Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Pro-Social Behavior	1
Happy or Unhappy? Mental Health Correlates of Receiving Sexts and Unsolicited Sexual Images	1
Exploring Culturally Adaptive Definitions and Measurement of Positive Youth Development among Second-generation Chinese American Youth: A Qualitative Study	1
“You Selling?”: Snack Sales and the Construction of Deviance in a High School	1