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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Religiosity’s Links to Adolescent Wellbeing and the Role of Supportive Networks and Sex	49
Adolescent Perceptions of Teen Suicide: Implications from Focus Groups	28
The Process of “Pushing Out”: Accumulated Disadvantage across School Punishment and Math Achievement Trajectories	25
Parental Modeling and Normative Influence in Shaping Teenagers’ Phubbing: An Exploratory Study	22
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems	19
What About the Kids? Examining the Visitation-Recidivism Relationship Among Incarcerated Juveniles	18
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics	15
A study Comparing Text-Based WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Interviews to Understand Early School Dropout	15
Becoming an Activist: Critical Action Among Black Youth During the Transition to Adulthood	15
The Intervention Effect of Online Mindfulness Training in Alleviating Youths’ Test Anxiety	13
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	13
Bicultural Stress and Bullying Behaviors Among Immigrant Origin Youth: The Promise of Developmental Assets	13
Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction	12
“Being Open About Struggle”: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience	11
Students’ Perception of Anti-Academic Norms in Flanders: The Role of Ethnicity, Peer Discrimination and Ethnic Belonging	11
Moderated Mediating Effects of Earthquake Experiences of Adolescents in the Relationship between Hope, Meaning in Life and Gratitude	10
Does Online Jealousy Lead to Online Control in Dating Adolescents? The Moderation Role of Moral Disengagement and Socio-Emotional Competence	9
Growing Up in Adversity: A Moderated Mediation Model of Family Conflict, Cyberbullying Perpetration, Making Sense of Adversity and Depression	9
The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time	9
Examining the Relationship Between Firearm Violence Exposure and Posttraumatic Symptomatology in Adolescents: A Scoping Review	9
Promotive Factors Within Neighborhood, Family, and School Contexts for Adolescents Living in an Urban, High-Burden Community	9
Mechanisms of Driving Adolescents’ Adjustment in Behavior: A Developmental Systems Approach	8
Picking Your Friends is a Risky Business: Psychological Impacts of Social Exclusion and Teammates Selection in a Cyberball Game with Middle School Students	8
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents	8
Realizing Participation Rights of Minority Youth in Conflicted Societies: The Case of Councils Integrating Jewish and Palestinian-Arab Youth in Israel	8

The Role of Future Orientation and Self-Mastery After Bullying Victimization: Associations With Depression	8
Attachments or Affiliations? The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Peer Relationships—A Qualitative Study Among Norwegian High School Students	7
Rising Stars and Underdogs: The Role Race and Parental Education Play in Predicting Mentorship	7
“I Think the Teachers Should Really Connect More With the Students”: The Influence of Systemic Racism, Inequity, School, and Community Violence on Connection for High School Students Who Are Suspended	7
Can’t You See I’m Getting Bored? The Social Context as a Moderator of Adolescent Leisure Boredom and Alcohol Use	7
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Self-Efficacy as a Resilience Measure: Evidence From PISA 2018	7
Examining Behavioral Variations in Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Cross-Racial Study of African, Latinx, and Asian American Adolescents	6
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	6
The Effect of Adolescents’ Ego-Identity on Problematic Short Video Use in an Online Learning Environment: The Role of Psychological Resilience and Academic Procrastination	6
The Transition to In-Person Schooling Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Latinx Adolescents	6
Young Adults’ Distress About Police Brutality Following the Death of George Floyd	6
Changing Patterns of Youth Social Exclusion in South Korea	6
Level of Education and Menstrual Challenges for Adolescent Girls in Rural Tanzania	6
Cyberbullying and PIU Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association With Adolescents Relationships	6
Private Tutoring, Sleep Time, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Students in China	5
Longitudinal Relationships Between Financial Stress, Career Related Optimism, and Psychological Distress During Emerging Adulthood in Australia	5
“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	5
Social Norms and Comparison: Evidence on Class Peers’ Impact on Adolescents’ Physical Exercise in China	5
A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnant in Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina	5
Bidirectional Relationships Between Cyberbystanders’ Roles, Cyberbullying Perpetration, and Justification of Violence	4
The Impact of Cyberbullying Victimization on Cyberbullying Among Chinese Junior High School Students: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	4
The Relationship Between Social Ignore and Social Media Addiction Among Adolescents: Mediator Effect of Satisfaction With Family Life	4
The Development of Latinx Youth Critical Consciousness in an Afterschool Program: Insights From Latinx Youth Critical Reflection and Critical Action Toward Educational Injustice	4
Youth-led Mental Health Promotion in South Africa	4
Perceptions of Social Media: Do They Foster or Hinder Online Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence?	4
Self-Disclosure, Self-concept, and Friendship’s Perceived Functions among Aggressive and Popular Adolescents	4
Predictors of Disclosing Sexual Orientation to Parents, Classmates, and School Adults among Latinx Sexual Minority High School and College Youth	4
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	4
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	4
Chinese Adolescents’ Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities	4
Needs of Youth and Parents From Multi-Problem Families in the Search for Youth-Initiated Mentors	4
Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most	4
Associations Between Psychological Capital, Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, Perceived Stress, Emotional, Social, and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescents	3
The Associations of Sociocultural Pressure, Emotional States, Self-control, and Emotional Eating in Adolescents	3
Bullying Victimization and Weapon Carrying: A Partial Test of General Strain Theory	3
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Muslim Refugee Youths’ Identity Development and Civic Engagement in School-Based Settings	3
Fear of Missing Out and Sexting Among Adolescents: Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes	3
Community Gender Norms and Gender Gaps in Adolescent Agency in Nepal	3
Making Space: Exploring the “Thirdspace” of Breaktime in Middle School	3
The Role of Firearm and Police Violence Exposure in Youth Firearm Beliefs and Access	3
Why are Some Victims Also Bullies? The Role of Peer Relationship Management and Anger Regulation in Traditional Bullying	3
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	3
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators	3
Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth	3
A Service Model for Self-Directed Learning of NEET Youth at the Local Government Level	3
Familial Mentor Support and Black Youths’ Connectedness to Parents Across Adolescence	3
Understanding the Abortion Experiences of Young People to Inform Quality Care in Argentina, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Nigeria	3
Swimming Against the Tide: Young Informal Traders’ Survival Strategies in a Competitive Business Environment in Zimbabwe	3
Young People’s Recommendations for Accessible, Engaging, and Relevant COVID-19 Research Communication in Australia	3
The Problematization of Violence Against Trans and Gender-Diverse People: Gender-Bashing and its Structural Relations With Cis-Heteronormativity in Spanish Adolescents	3

Prevalence and Correlates of Depression and Anxiety Among Jordanian Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study	3
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	3
What Makes Adolescents Free Time Use Differently?	2
The Multicultural Politics of Opportunity: A Comparative Analysis of the Occupational Aspirations of Immigrant Adolescents	2
Patterns of Adolescent Peer Affiliation among Youth At-Risk of Maltreatment	2
Relationships Among Romantic Myths, Tolerant Attitudes Toward Abuse, and Teen Dating Violence Victimization: The Moderator Role of Gender	2
Relations Between Violence Exposure and Gun Carriage: Identifying Protective Factors Among African American Youth Living in Low-Income Urban Communities	2
The Elephant in the GSA: Associations Between Discussions of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Mental Health Outcomes in Gender-Sexuality Alliances	2
Network Brokerage and Self-Rated Popularity Among Lao School-Based Children: Findings From Primary Survey Data	2
Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces	2
Social Contact and Family Contact for Youth with Disabilities	2
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy	2
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	2
The Implications of Executive Functioning on Community Adversity and Violence and Mental Health Outcomes	2
Academic Self-esteem as a Buffer Between Negative Youth Experiences and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents	2
Learning From Home: Widening Rural-Urban Educational Inequality and High School Students’ Self-Control in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closure	2
Reputational Status Dynamics from a Mixed Methods Perspective: Coolness and Popularity in a Hungarian Primary School Sample	2
Feeling Invisible and Unheard: A Qualitative Exploration of Gendered-Racist Stereotypes Influence on Sexual Decision Making and Mistreatment of Black Teen Girls	2
Outreach Practices of Public Employment Services Targeted at NEET Youth in Poland	2
Direct and Indirect Effects of Adolescent Peer Victimization and Mental Health on Academic Achievement in Early Adulthood: A 6-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study	2
Examining Risk Factors and Protective Resources as Predictors of Recovery Among Youth With Mental Illness and Lived Experience of Homelessness	2
Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing: Youth and Organizational Responses	2
Development and Validation of a School Alienation Scale for Junior High School Students in Taiwan	2
Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds	2
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	2
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Adolescent Social Network Positions and Lifetime Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence	1
Impoverished Single Mother Households and Violent Delinquency: Bonding, Negative, and Bridging Social Capital	1
The Link Between Bullying Victimization, Maladjustment, Self-Control, and Bullying: A Comparison of Traditional and Cyberbullying Perpetrator	1
Adolescent Firearm Suicides in the United States: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences, 2004 to 2020	1
Youth in Group Home Care: An Investigation of Negative Peer Influence and Youth Antisocial Behavior	1
Creative and Expressive Arts in a Young Adult Problem-Solving Court and Its Influence on Participant Experience and Outcomes	1
Conceptualization of Firearm-Related Terms Among Rural Adolescents: Definitions Matter	1
Examining the Influence of the Neighborhood Environment on Stress Among Black American Adolescents: A Scoping Review	1
Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Adolescent Cannabis Use in Washington State	1
Identification of Promotive and Protective Factors for Young Adults Living in Concentrated Disadvantage	1
Adolescent Sports Participation and Health in Early Adulthood: An Observational Study	1
“You Selling?”: Snack Sales and the Construction of Deviance in a High School	1
Examining the Role of School and Neighborhood Disorder in Early Adolescents’ Future Orientation Development	1
Staying Safe or Staying Popular? Popularity and Reputation Concerns Predict Adherence and Adjustment During the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Post-Pregnancy Factors Predicting Teen Mothers’ Educational Attainment by Age 30 in Two National Cohorts	1
Growing Up Amidst Active Warfare: Understanding the Experiences of Ukrainian Adolescents Through Chat Data	1
Macro-level Criminological Perspectives and School Delinquency: A Meta-analysis	1
How Does Self-Control Affect Academic Achievement of Adolescents? The Dual Perspectives of Teacher-Student Relationship and Mastery Approach Goals	1
“It Goes under the Radar!”: In/Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism from a Canadian Youth Perspective	1
Exploring the School-Based Support for Youths Who Head Households in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Delayed Romantic Experience: Association of Romantic Relationship and Weight Change Patterns over 7 Years among Taiwanese Adolescents	1
Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments	1
From Context to Perception to Behavior: Predicting Delinquency With the Parental Support-Perceived Parental Competence Cross-Lag	1
NEETs and the Process of Transition From School to the Labor Market: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria	1
Future Time Perspective and Self-Control Mediate the Links between Parental Autonomy Support and Adolescents’ Digital Citizenship Behavior	1
“Everybody’s Mind is Different. Like, It’s Not Gonna Work the Same”: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perspectives on Mental Health	1
The Role of Parental Mediation in the Associations Among Cyberbullying Bystanding, Depression, Subjective Health Complaints, and Self-Harm	1
Inner Prosociality, Hope, Emotional Autonomy, and Subjective Well-Being in Adolescents: A Serial Mediation Model	1
The Impacts of Firearm Violence Exposure on Youth in the U.S: Building the Evidence and the Solutions	1
Violence Exposure, Aggressive Cognitions & Externalizing Behaviors among Colombian Youth: The Moderating Role of Community Belongingness	1
Recent Trend in the Prevalence and Correlates of Depression Among Chinese Young Adults from 2010 to 2018	1
Linking Teacher Injustice, Conscientiousness, and Academic Dishonesty via Classroom Connectedness: A Moderated-Mediation Model	1
The Association Between Perceptions of Neighborhood Conditions and the Employment of Emerging Adults Formerly Involved in the Juvenile Justice System	1
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Assault-injured Youth: Parallel Process Models Addressing Comorbidity	1
The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness	1
The Construction of Shame and Pride: A Grounded Theory Model of Identity, Emotions, and Wellbeing among Sexual Minority Adolescents	1
Positive and Negative Experiences With Supportive Services and Programming: Gaps and Recommendations From Youth Experiencing Homelessness	1
Poverty Stifles Ambition: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Perceived Social Fairness in the Future Orientation of Adolescents from Financially Disadvantaged Families	1
Effects of the Internet Access Environment on Utilization of Tele-Rehabilitation for Adolescents With Visual or Hearing Disabilities	1
Sitting in the Pews: Theological Beliefs and Racial/Ethnic Identity Among African American Adolescents	1