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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Early Adolescence 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Adolescent Stressful Life Events Predict Future Self- Connectedness in Adulthood	32
Combined Schools as a (Non) Protective Factor During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Middle School Transitions Under Typical versus Atypical School Conditions	28
Acknowledgments	20
Transition of Sleep Problems Subgroups and Its Predictors in Chinese Early Adolescents	18
I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends: The Impact of a Gender-Tailored Group Mentoring Program on Peer Relationships	17
Emotion Socialization, Peer Relations, and School Belonging During the High School Transition	15
Translating Parenting Into Affiliative Reward in Early Adolescence: Sex Differences	14
Co-Occurring Disorders and Engagement in Behavioral Health Treatment Among Justice-Involved Adolescents	13
Acknowledgments	12
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Emotional and Behavioral Problems: The Moderating Role of Environmental Sensitivity	11
Attachment and Maladjustment: The Role of Effortful Control Development During Middle Childhood	11
The Association Between Teacher Connection and Flourishing Among Early Adolescents in 25 Countries	11
Profiles of Risk and Promotive Factors Associated With Aggression and Other Problem Behaviors Among Middle School Students in an Urban School System	10
Socio-Ecological Associations of the Development of Sexual Behavior in Young Adolescent Girls in the Rural Southern Region of Malawi	10
Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Latinx Youth’s Sociopolitical Development: Testing Variability by Reporter Status and Youth’s Age, Gender, and Family Immigrant Status	9
Cooperative Hearts: Perceived Stress and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Preadolescents’ Cooperative Behaviors	9
Caregiver Perceived Stress as a Link Between Family COVID-19 Experiences and Early Adolescent Mental Health Symptomology	9
Perceived Pubertal Timing and Deviant Peer Processes Predicting Substance Use Initiation: The Moderating Role of Impulsiveness	9
The “Me” in Media Multitasking: The Role of Temperament, Media Use Motivations and Executive Functioning in Adolescent Media Multitasking	9
Gender Differences in Coolness Dynamics Among Early and Middle Adolescents	8
Low Peer Acceptance and Classroom Engagement: The Protective Role of Elementary School Teacher-Student Relationships for Immigrant-Background Students	8
Acknowledgments	8
Acknowledgments	8
Post-Pandemic Engagement of Youth in Virtual Environments: Reflections and Lessons Learned From the Development of a Youth Education Program	8
No “Bad Friends”? Immigrant-Origin Adolescents’ Peer Social Capital Mobilization in the U.S. and Switzerland	7

The Primordial Role of Self-Esteem in Social-Emotional Development and Maladaptive Behavior Formation—A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis	7
The Relationship Between Cognitive Reappraisal and Psychological Well-Being During Early Adolescence: A Scoping Review	7
Engaging With Mature Media Content Is Linked to Depression and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Childhood and Early Adolescents	7
The Moderating Role of Poverty on Parenting, Family Climate, and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation	6
The Dynamics of Ego-Resilience Trajectories: Exploring the Roles of Individual, Family, and School Factors Among Multicultural Early Adolescents in South Korea	6
Bicultural Competence and Academic and Psychosocial Functioning Among Latinx Early Adolescents: Examining the Moderating Role of Gender	6
Acknowledgements	6
Gender Differences in Math and Science Academic Self-Concepts and the Association With Female Climate in 8th Grade Classrooms	6
Early Non-Coital Sexual and Romantic Behaviors in Latine Adolescents: Differences by Latine Origin	6
Acknowledgments	6
Interventions Addressing Current Social Polarization in the School Context: A Scoping Review	5
Boys’ Internalized Appearance-Related Norms from Different Socializers Uniquely, Negatively Relate to Wellbeing and Gender Beliefs	5
Relationship Between Trajectories of Perceived Discrimination and Socio-Cultural Adaptation Among Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children	5
Developmental Pathways and Adjustment of Adult Women Who Experienced Early Pubertal Development: A Mixed-Method Approach	5
Parental Accuracy of Reporting Child Sleep Duration: Examining Sleep and Childhood Obesity in Midwestern Latinx Youth	5
Acculturative Stress and Psychological Distress Among Latinx Youth: Moderating Role of Family Cohesion and Conflict	5
Capturing the Prevalence, Patterns, and Predictors of Supportive Relationships in Early Adolescence	5
Construction and Initial Validation of the DECCS Questionnaire to Assess How Students Deal with Emotionally Challenging Classroom Situations (Grades 4–7)	5
The Role of Parental Self-Efficacy Regarding Parental Support for Early Adolescents’ Coping, Self-Regulated Learning, Learning Self-Efficacy and Positive Emotions	5
Acknowledgments	4
Acknowledgments	4
“When you’re helping a person with a problem and they’re having the problem, you kind of feel the same way”: Internal State Language in Adolescents’ Disclosures to Siblings and Friends	4
An Exploration of the Environmental Setting Mothers and Early Adolescent Youth Prefer to Have Conversations About Daily Stressors	4
Immediate Experiences and Short-Term Impact of Sociometric Assessment in Early Adolescence and Associations With Low Social Status	4
Identifying Classes and Correlates of Anti-social Behaviour in Early Adolescence	4
The Structure of Social Competence and School Adjustment in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Network Analysis	4
Cohort Analysis of Sexting Behaviors Among Spanish Adolescents Aged 12–14 Years	4
COVID-19 Stressful Life Events and Chinese Adolescents’ Mental Health: Examining Resilience, Peer Relationship, and Parenting as Moderators	4
Gender Differences in Relationship Between Family Functioning and Risky Behaviors of Adolescents in China	4
Parenting in the Context of Peer Victimization: Adolescent Behavioral Moderators	4
Acknowledgments	3
Popular Students Academic Adjustment during the Middle School Transition and the Impact of Teacher-Student Relationships	3
Ethnic Racial Identity Development in a Dual Immersion School: A Narrative Analysis	3
Social Networks in Early Adolescence: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Acknowledgments	3
Interreligious Bullying and Academic Achievement Among Muslim and Non-Muslim Early Adolescents in Germany	3
Brief Report: Priming Attachment Memories Affects Attachment States of Pre-adolescents	3
Corrigendum to “[Parental Emotion Socialization, Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescence: The Role of Family Cohesion]”	3
Understanding Academic Pressure in Primary School: Associations With Mental Health and Social Connectedness	3
Acknowledgments	3
Testing for Sex Moderation of the Moral Neutralization-Mediated Peer Influence Effect in Early Adolescent Youth	3
What is the Role of Motives for Smartphone Use in Elementary School Students? Problematic Smartphone Use, Family Satisfaction, Loneliness, and Academic Performance	3
Parental Emotion Socialization Predicts Early Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal and Multimethod Examination in Trauma-Exposed Families	3
Capturing Classroom Talk With the Low- Inference Discourse Observation Tool: A Validation Study	3
Does Prosociality in Early-to Mid-Adolescence Protect Against Later Development of Antisocial Behaviours?	3
Thriving Through Autonomy: High-Ability Adolescents’ Well-Being Amidst the Pandemic	2
A Clinical-Community Comparison of Parent-Child Emotion Conversations About the Past and the Anticipated Future	2
The Association Between Classroom Descriptive Norms, Relationship Quality and the Development of Adolescents’ Executive Functioning: A Longitudinal Perspective	2
Increasing Ties to Peers and Improving Social Emotional Outcomes: Insights from an Out-of-School Program Serving Latine Young Adolescents	2
Acknowledgments	2

Introduction to the Special Issue “Socio-ecological Predictors, Consequences, and Prevention of Bias-Based Aggression and Cyberaggression in Early Adolescence”	2
A Latent Transition Analysis of Internet Addiction in Early Adolescents and Its Contributing Factors	2
Friends Can Help to Aim High: Peer Influence and Selection Effects on Academic Ambitions and Achievement	2
Bidirectional Relationships between Parental Anxiety, Internalizing Symptoms, and Peer Victimization and Aggression among Early Adolescents	2
Cross-Lagged Association Between Parenting Styles and Internalizing Problems: Untangling Sex and Grade-level Differences	2
Early Adolescent Social Anxiety and (mal)Adaptive Responses to Interpersonal Stress: Exploring Associations in Daily Life	2
Examining Links Between Motivations for Social Withdrawal, Time Spent Alone, and Indices of Internalizing Problems in Childhood and Early Adolescence	2
The Influences of Children’s and Maternal Childhood Adversity on Externalizing Problems in Early Adolescence	2
Acknowledgments	2
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Behavior and Sleep Among 9- and 10-Year Old Children: Initial Findings From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	2
Low-Income Adolescents’ Future Goals and Current Achievement: Parents as Sources of Resilience During the Transition to Middle School	2
The Role of Rejection Sensitivity and Relational Victimization Within the Friendship Group on Conformity Intentions	2
Pathways From Prosocial Behaviour to Emotional Health and Academic Achievement in Early Adolescence	2
Parental Appreciation Socialization and Child Development of Appreciation Versus Gratitude: Child-Driven Effects and the Contextualizing Role of Parental Education	2
Acknowledgments	2
Attachment Preferences in Chinese Adolescents: Developing the Chinese Version of the Important People Interview	2
Cognitive Fusion and Experiential Avoidance Sequentially Mediate the Relationship Between Cyber Victimization and Depression in Adolescents	1
Prospective Relations Between Hope and Cognitive and Affective Components of Subjective Well-Being in Early Adolescents	1
Parents on the Sidelines: The Role of Parental Directing in Chinese Adolescents’ Friendship Dynamics Related to Academic Achievement, Aggression, and Prosocial Behavior	1
Preadolescents’ Perceptions of Parental Emotion Socialization Responses to Positive Emotions: Links With Psychosocial Adjustment and Attachment Security	1
Parental Alcohol Use Predicts Neural Emotion Reactivity and Substance Use Intentions in Early Adolescence	1
The Relationship Between Weekly Instruction, Homework Time and Students’ Competences	1
Adolescents’ Beliefs About Sex: The Moderating Effects of Peer Attitudes	1
Does Rude or Kind Behavior Predict Later Academic Achievement? Evidence From Two Samples of Adolescents	1
Cultural Adaptation of the Expectancy-Value-Cost Scale for Spanish-Speaking Students	1
The Consequences of Social Media Use Across the Transition Into Adolescence: Body Image and Physical Activity	1
Eating Disorder Symptomatology and Self-Concept in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: A Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Approach	1
Perceived Racial Discrimination, Poverty-Related Stress, Civic Efficacy, and Psychological Problems in Low Socioeconomic Preadolescents	1
Understanding Gender Differences in Internalizing Symptoms: The Role of Co-Rumination and Empathetic Distress	1
Association Between Online Privacy Cognitions and Sexting in a Sample of U.S. Adolescents	1
Cumulative Ecological Risk and Academic Performance of Economically Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model	1
Everyday Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental Health: Evidence From an Ecological Momentary Assessment	1
Falling off the Social Ladder: Longitudinal Behavioral and Mental Health Consequences of Desiring Higher Popularity and Experiencing Popularity Status Insecurity	1
Specific Maternal Reactions to Anger and the General Mother-Adolescent Relationship: Links with Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation and Adjustment	1
Social Media Addiction and Aggressive Behaviors in Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Nighttime Social Media Use and Sleep Quality	1
Social Support Among Adolescents Across Immigrant Generations: A Mixed-Methods Study	1
Acknowledgments	1
Predictors of Employment in Early Adolescence: Results of a Longitudinal Study	1
Gauging Acceptance: A Multifaceted Examination of Physical Ability and Its Role for Peer Networks in Adolescent Physical Education	1
Is Mistrust in Early Adolescence Referent-specific? Looking at the Validity of Different Mistrust Referents in Sixth Graders	1
Goals Shape Perceptions of Defending Norms: Social Goal Orientations and Bullying-Related Behaviors	1
Loneliness Among Racially Minoritized Adolescents: Racial Discrimination and Ethnic-Racial Identity as Risk and Protective Factors	1