OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Adult Development 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining Identity and Generativity among Middle-aged Female Activists in Two Cultural Contexts	47
Does Overparenting Hurt Working Turkish Mother’s Well-being? The Influence of Family–Work Conflict and Perceived Stress in Established Adulthood	26
Stepping Up and Stepping Down: The Dynamic Nature of Social Status Across the Lifespan	20
Being Called “Elderly” Impacts Adult Development: A Critical Analysis of Enduring Ageism During COVID in NZ Online News Media	19
Resilience, Disillusionment, and Shifting Perspectives: Insights from Mothers After the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Older Adults’ Future Perspectives and Attitudes Amid Uncertainty: Shifts Across 2 Years of COVID-19	12
Perceived Overprotective Parenting and Identity Synthesis and Confusion in Georgian Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Goal Engagement and Disengagement	12
When the Lights Went Out at Adult Day Centers: Perceived Change in Caregiver Well-Being During the COVID-19 Shutdowns	12
Age-Related Variations in Using Solitude as a Resource During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Regulatory Focus, Family–-Work Interface, and Adult Life Success	11
Religiosity and Mental Health Among Young-Adults in Generation X from Emerging to Established Adulthood	10
Intrinsic Motivation During Adulthood: A Further Evaluation of the Integrative Theory of Intrinsic Motivation	10
Adult Children’s Monitoring Their Older Parents’ Lives	10
Developmental Themes in the Narrative of Adults with Early International Experiences	10
Balancing Personal Needs and Future Generations’ Well-Being: A Qualitative Pilot Study on Generative Experiences of Emerging Adults with Congenital Heart Disease	9
Development of a New Measure of Intergenerational Contact	9
Psychological Obsolescence and Subjective Remaining Life Expectancy are Predictors of Generativity in a Six-Year Longitudinal Study	8
Social Rejection and Depressive Symptoms Among Emerging Adults: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	8
What Does My Best Friend Think of My Relationship? Links with Psychological Well-being in Established Adulthood	8
How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging	8
Emotion Regulation in Emerging Adults: Do Parenting And Parents’ Own Emotion Regulation Matter?	8
Validation of the Generative Motives Scale to Measure Generativity Among Midlife Grandparent Caregivers in Urban China	8
Predicting Satisfaction with Money Management and Life Satisfaction in Parents of Emerging Adult Students	8
Equal But Different: Views on Gender Roles and Responsibilities Among Upper-Class Hindu Indians in Established Adulthood	8
Early Interparental Conflict, Couple Relationships, and Depression Among Rural Older Adults in China: A Latent Growth Model	7

Evaluating the Connection Between the Neighborhood Context with Daily Negative and Positive Events and Well-Being	7
The Relationship Between Emotional Availability of Parents and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Meta-emotion and Mood	7
Opening to Awe: Psychedelic-Assisted Self-Transcendence and Positive Adult Development	7
Covid-19 Lockdown Loneliness and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Basic Need Satisfaction Across Different Age Groups	7
A Typology of U.S. Emerging Adults’ Online and Offline Connectedness with Extended Family	6
Parenting in Overdrive: A Meta-analysis of Helicopter Parenting Across Multiple Indices of Emerging Adult Functioning	6
Retrospective Adolescent Parental Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance as Predictors of Current Young Adult Mental Health	6
Childhood Abuse and Depression in Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Subjective Social Status	5
Interpersonal Relationships and Physical Activity Across the Lifespan: A Qualitative Study with Older Adults	5
Psychosocial Differences Between Young and Middle Adulthood: A Multimethod Assessment of Object Relations	5
An Exploration of Friendship and Well-Being in Established Adulthood and Midlife	5
Helicopter Parenting and Chinese University Students’ Adjustment: The Mediation of Autonomy and Moderation of the Sense of Entitlement	5
Financial Problems in Established Adulthood: Implications for Depressive Symptoms and Relationship Quality with Parents	5
The Mentoring Relationship with the Closest Grandparent and Identity Processes Among Emerging Adult Grandchildren in Poland: The Role of Perceived Grandparents’ Perspective Taking	5
Self-Acceptance in Mid to Late Life: Lingering Effects of Childhood Maltreatment and Positive Contributions of Warm and Supportive Relationships	5
Interparental Conflict and Young Adults’ Romantic Relationship Quality: Mediating Pathways Through Parental and Romantic Attachment and Gender Differences	5
The Influence of Insecure Romantic Attachment on Generativity	5
Integrating Intersectionality and Life Course Approaches: Three Women’s Lives	5
Living with Transthyretin-Related Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy—TTR-FAP: Generativity, Satisfaction with Life and Health Perception in Older Affected Individuals	5
Facing a Fast-Paced, Digital World: Gen Z’s Perception of Social (Media) Groups	4
Age-Related Declines in Theory of Mind: Associations with Cognitive Complexity, Reasoning Abilities and Social Activity	4
A Pathway to Meaning in Life: Early Parental Support, Attachment, and the Moderating Role of Alexithymia	4
Starting University at the Time of COVID-19: Psychoemotional Adjustment of a Group of Italian Students	4
Toward a New Theory of Established Adulthood	4
From Adversity to Purpose: How Self-compassion and Age Influence Meaning in Life Among Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences	4
The Mediating Role of Affective Empathy in the Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Depressive Symptoms Among Emerging Adult	4
Expanding the Self Behind Closed Doors: Exploring the Role of the Lockdown in Self-Realization Among Young Adults	3
The Relationship Between Resilience and Adaptation Among Freshmen: Evidence from an AwC Growth Model and a Growth Mixture Model	3
The Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12): Psychometric Development and Validation	3
Psychological Distress and Identity Distress Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Among College Students	3
Learning and Developmental Pathways in Early Coparenting Among Finnish First-Time Parental Couples’	3
Recollections of Adolescence: How Parent and Teacher Relationships, Educational Support, and School Engagement During Adolescence Shape Emerging Adults’ Mental Health and Wellbeing	3
Value-Based Decision-Making and Its Relation to Cognition and Processing Noise in Young and Older Adults	3
Adult Childrens’ College Completion Timing and Their Aging Mothers’ Self-Rated Health: The Role of Mothers’ Educational Attainment	3
From Parent to Partner: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Mate Value in Parenting and Mate Preferences	3
Positive Relationships have Shades of Gray: Age is Associated with More Complex Perceptions of Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 Lockdown	3
A Comparison of Attitudes and Knowledge Towards Autism Based on Adult Sibling Experiences	3
Self-aging Attitudes and Social Isolation Among Chinese Older Adults: The Mediating Roles of Internet Self-efficacy and Active Social Media Use	3
Dysfunctional Parental Care and Emotional Dysregulation: A Pilot Study on the Mediating Role of Attachment Styles and Alexithymia in a Sample of Young Women	3
The Role of Personality Risk and Protective Factors in Living with Covid-19: A Longitudinal Study	2
Empowered to Stay Active: Psychological Empowerment, Retirement Timing, and Later Life Work	2
Hofstede’s Cultural Values and Birth Rate and Longevity: A National-Level Analysis	2
The Relationship Between Religiosity and Marriage From Emerging to Established Adulthood	2
Adolescent Family Characteristics Partially Explain Differences in Emerging Adulthood Subjective Well-Being After the Experience of Major Life Events: Results from the German KiGGS Cohort Study	2
Predicting Wellbeing in Retirees During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Meaning in Life and Goal Setting	2
How Grandparents Inform Our Lives: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Intergenerational Influence on Young Adults	2
The Role of Friendship Experiences in Subjective Well-Being Among Perceived Adults and Perceived Emerging Adults	2
Generativity Over the Life Course: A Study of Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adult Volunteers	2
Seeing Death with More Equanimity: The Indirect Effect of Generativity on Death Acceptance Through Ego-Integrity	2
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Changes in Parental Representations Among Established Adults Going Through Progressive Identity Development	1

“This is the Age Period Where You Start Figuring Out What You Want” LDS Women’s Experiences of Exploration During Established Adulthood	1
Capitalizing Social Networks in Midlife: Longitudinal Pathways Linking Bonding Social Capital, Social Support, Sense of Control, and Mental Well-Being	1
Helicopter Parenting and Resilience Among Malaysian Chinese University Students: The Mediating Role of Fear of Negative Evaluation	1
Age-Differential Effects of Proactive Control in Dual Tasking: The Moderating Effect of Task Difficulty	1
The Relation Between College Education and Beliefs about Parent Discipline	1
Birth-Related Posttraumatic Growth: The Role of Social Support, Perceived Control, and Mindfulness	1
Assessing Generational Responsibility: Nomological Network and Measurement Invariance of the Social Generativity Scale Across Age and Gender	1
Codevelopment of Well-Being and Developmental Progress in Central Life Domains During Established Adulthood	1
Correction: Psychological Long COVID in Italian Young Adulthood: Effects of COVID Exhaustion and Positive Attitude Towards the Future on Social Distancing and Life Satisfaction	1
The Independent Associations of Attachment Representations to Parents and Depressive Symptoms with Friendships and Romantic Relationships in Young Adults	1
Mother–Child Versus Father–Child Conflict and Emerging Adults’ Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Trust in Parents and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation	1
The Association Between Economic Pressure and Positivity During Young Adulthood	1
Relations of Personality Traits, Character, and Narrative Identity with Emerging Adults’ Identity Statuses	1
The Development of Generativity in Middle Adulthood and the Beginning of Late Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study from Age 42 to 61	1
Age Difference in the Effect of Relationship Closeness on Interpersonal Escalating Commitment	1
Relations Among Parental Psychological Control, Perceived Legitimate Authority, and Self-Worth in Asian-American and European-American Emerging Adults	1
Perceptions of Adulthood: What Does it Mean to be Grown-Up?	1
Role of Mentalization as a Mediator Between Childhood Trauma and Resilience in Emerging Adults of Pakistan and Türkiye: A Cross-Cultural Study	1
Age-Related Differences in Motor Estimation Ability	1