OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Issues 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	39
Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout	34
Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs	26
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	25
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey	19
Couple Conflict Behavior: Disentangling Associations With Relationship Dissatisfaction and Intimate Partner Violence	17
Perceived Injustice and Psychological Well-Being in Couples Seeking Fertility Treatment	16
Parenting Behavior and Adolescent Affect: Bidirectionality and the Role of Gender	16
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	15
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-19	15
Types of Family Leisure Activities in Families With Adolescents	15
Ownership Versus Partnership Parenting: Parenting Styles Within the Homeschooling Movement	15
Teaching Wife’s Language to the Children of International Marriage Couples in South Korea	15
The Emotional Impact of Unfulfilled Career Aspirations for Stay-at-Home Mothers in Australia	14
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction	14
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	13
Age and Gender Differences in Perceived Parenting Styles and Emotional Outcomes in Early Adolescents	13
Intergenerational Value Similarity and Subjective Well-Being	13
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	13
Title: New Parents’ Idealistic Expectations of Parenthood: The Impact of Preconceived Ideas	12
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	12
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization	12
A Multilevel Investigation of the Effects of Daily Work–Family Interaction on Daily Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Network Financial Transfers and Psychological Distress Among Unmarried Mothers	11
Family Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia	11

Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	11
COVID-19 and Parental Burnout: Parents Locked Down but Not More Exhausted	11
Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile	11
‘Hitting to Teach is One Thing, but to Hurt is a Different Thing, isn’t it?’: Understanding Cycles of Intergenerational Violence within Families	10
Attitudes Towards Home Care of Older Persons With Disabilities: The Case of Trinidad	10
We Are Family: Effects of a Relationship-Strengthening Prevention Intervention on Parenting Behaviors Among Black and Latino Adolescent Couples	10
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	9
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System	9
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender	9
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives	9
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	9
Self-Reported Reasons for Divorce, Social Support, and Depression: An Exploratory Study With Hmong Women	9
Men in Mixed-Orientation Marriages in Contemporary China: Unpacking the Role of Heteronormativity and Patriarchy	9
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems	9
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	9
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	9
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children	9
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	8
Determinants of Paternal Engagement: Investigating Low-Income Fathers’ Caregiving, Play, and Verbal Engagement With Infants	8
Grandparent Caregiver Wellbeing: A Strengths-Based Approach Utilizing the Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) Framework	8
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	8
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss	8
The Relationships of Divorced Grandparents with Their Grandchildren	8
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia	8
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden	8
From Piggy Banks to Significant Others: Associations Between Financial Socialization and Romantic Relationship Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood	8
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women	8
‘We Don’t Let It Build Up’: Relationship Satisfaction and Well-Being Among Equal-Sharing, Role-Reversed and Semi-Traditional Parents	8
Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice: Using Conjoint Analysis to Understand Parental Decision Making for Child Care	7
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce	7
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population	7
Hours of Work and Early Childhood Education and Access to Care Services in Latin America: Evidence From Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay	7
Investigation of the Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence Between Family Harmony and Well-Being Among High School Students in Turkey	7
Stigma, Outsider Status and Mothers in Prison	7
A Study on Moderating Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Work–Life Balance	7
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	7
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands	7
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China	7
Forgiveness in Marriage: From Incidents to Marital Satisfaction	7
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People	7
What Makes Families Healthy? Examining Correlates of Family Health in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults in the United States	7
Does Gender Difference Exist in Typologies of Intergenerational Relations? Adult Son-Parent and Daughter-Parent Relations in Hong Kong	7
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	6
Is Everyone “Looking for Love?” Trends in Romantic Relationship Interest Among Singles During COVID-19	6
“We Can’t Say This Won’t Happen to Me”: Parent-Child Communication About Anti-Latino Discrimination	6
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior	6
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships	6
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong	6

To Disclose or Conceal? Workplace Disability and Eldercare-Related Disclosure Decision-Making Strategies	6
Toward a Better Understanding of the Associations Among Different Measures of Father Involvement and Parenting Alliance	6
Determinants of Cohabitation in Taiwan: A Panel Data Analysis	6
Don’t Forget the Parents: Caregiver Coping Strategies for Daughter’s Juvenile Legal System Involvement	6
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Family Disruption and Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Study on Marriage Pairings and Women’s Fertility Intentions in China	6
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood	6
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	6
Navigating the Gap: Children’s Experiences of Home and School Life Following Maternal Death	5
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany	5
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	5
Exploring the Facilitators and Barriers to Maintaining Intimate Relationships during Covid-19 through Online Photovoice Methodology	5
Measurement Invariance in the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire: Implications for Culturally Inclusive Parenting Research	5
The Role of Food and Food Behaviors in Intimate Partner Violence	5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain	5
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	5
Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of the Division of Domestic Labor in Contemporary Couples	5
Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study	5
Bonding With Adolescents in Foster Care: Perspectives of Foster Parents	5
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	5
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	5
Migration and Dynamics in Men’s and Women’s Domestic Work	5
Search and Communication About Origins in Internationally Adopted Young Adults in Spain: A Phenomenological Perspective	5
A World Through Glass: A Narrative Around the Family Experiences During the Confinement of COVID-19	5
Parents’ Access to Flexible Work Arrangements and Time in Active Caregiving Activities	5
Do Spousal Intimate Relationships Affect Fertility Intentions and Preferences?	5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy	5
Longitudinal Association Between the Quality of the Separated Parents’ Relationship and the Frequency of Father–Child Contact: The Mothers’ Perspective	5
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children	4
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	4
“A Woman’s Degree Must End in the Kitchen”: Expectations of Women in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	4
Parent–Child Leisure and Parent Affect: The Role of Family Structure	4
Changes in Attachment and Commitment in Couples Transitioning to Parenthood	4
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours	4
Does Family Decision-Making Power Improve Women’s Happiness?	4
Home, Work, and Care Economy: A Qualitative Study of Disrupted Ecology and Family Precarity During COVID-19	4
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	4
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	4
Parenting Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Canadian Crowdsourced Sample	4
Intergenerational Transmission of Values: From Parent–Child Value Similarity to Parent–Child Value Continuity	4
Can Parents Manage Their Children’s Future Happiness?—: A Retrospective Inquiry	4
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	4
Social Spheres of Protection and Threat: The Experiences of Black Men Married to White Women	4
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	4
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth	4
Patterns of Stepsibling Relationship Development	4
Social Support and Quality of Life Among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Ghana	4
A Qualitative Forum Analysis of Fathers’ Stressors and Support Seeking Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Relationship Between Mobile Penetration Rate and Divorce Rate in Iran During 1995–2019: A Time-Series Study	4
Partners’ Educational Pairings and Subjective Well-Being in China: An Analysis Using the Diagonal Mobility Model	4
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	4
How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India	4
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	4
A Cohort Comparison of Midlife Marital Quality: A Quarter Century of Change	4
Sandwiched Mothers: Parent Involvement and Mother’s Subjective Well-Being	4
Targeted Fathers’ Beliefs in a Just World	4
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States	4
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	4
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown	4
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Family Social Capital, and Externalizing Behavior Problems: An Analysis Across Multiple Ecological Levels	4
Alexithymia, Fear of Intimacy, and Relationship Satisfaction	4
Prioritized Functions of Family Systems Over Time: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review	4