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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining Identity and Generativity among Middle-aged Female Activists in Two Cultural Contexts	50
Does Overparenting Hurt Working Turkish Mother’s Well-being? The Influence of Family–Work Conflict and Perceived Stress in Established Adulthood	28
Stepping Up and Stepping Down: The Dynamic Nature of Social Status Across the Lifespan	21
Resilience, Disillusionment, and Shifting Perspectives: Insights from Mothers After the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
A Qualitative Study of Parental Perspectives on Their Offspring’s Emerging Adulthood and Intergenerational Solidarity	16
Regulatory Focus, Family–-Work Interface, and Adult Life Success	12
Perceived Overprotective Parenting and Identity Synthesis and Confusion in Georgian Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Goal Engagement and Disengagement	12
Age-Related Variations in Using Solitude as a Resource During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Older Adults’ Future Perspectives and Attitudes Amid Uncertainty: Shifts Across 2 Years of COVID-19	12
When the Lights Went Out at Adult Day Centers: Perceived Change in Caregiver Well-Being During the COVID-19 Shutdowns	11
Developmental Themes in the Narrative of Adults with Early International Experiences	11
Adult Children’s Monitoring Their Older Parents’ Lives	11
Intrinsic Motivation During Adulthood: A Further Evaluation of the Integrative Theory of Intrinsic Motivation	10
Balancing Personal Needs and Future Generations’ Well-Being: A Qualitative Pilot Study on Generative Experiences of Emerging Adults with Congenital Heart Disease	9
Religiosity and Mental Health Among Young-Adults in Generation X from Emerging to Established Adulthood	9
How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging	9
Histories of Child Maltreatment and Their Sequential Associations with Intimate Partner Violence, Psychological Distress, and Romantic Satisfaction in Middle-Aged Mothers	8
The Role of Parent-Grandparent Coparenting Relationship in the Association Between Ambivalent Sexism and Parenting Stress	8
Social Rejection and Depressive Symptoms Among Emerging Adults: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model	8
Development of a New Measure of Intergenerational Contact	8
Psychological Obsolescence and Subjective Remaining Life Expectancy are Predictors of Generativity in a Six-Year Longitudinal Study	8
Predicting Satisfaction with Money Management and Life Satisfaction in Parents of Emerging Adult Students	7
What Does My Best Friend Think of My Relationship? Links with Psychological Well-being in Established Adulthood	7
Validation of the Generative Motives Scale to Measure Generativity Among Midlife Grandparent Caregivers in Urban China	7
Early Interparental Conflict, Couple Relationships, and Depression Among Rural Older Adults in China: A Latent Growth Model	7

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

“This is the Age Period Where You Start Figuring Out What You Want” LDS Women’s Experiences of Exploration During Established Adulthood	1
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	1
Predicting Wellbeing in Retirees During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Meaning in Life and Goal Setting	1
Age Difference in the Effect of Relationship Closeness on Interpersonal Escalating Commitment	1
Helicopter Parenting and Resilience Among Malaysian Chinese University Students: The Mediating Role of Fear of Negative Evaluation	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 Association Between Economic Pressure and Positivity During Young Adulthood	1
Empowered to Stay Active: Psychological Empowerment, Retirement Timing, and Later Life Work	1
Capitalizing Social Networks in Midlife: Longitudinal Pathways Linking Bonding Social Capital, Social Support, Sense of Control, and Mental Well-Being	1
Generativity Over the Life Course: A Study of Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adult Volunteers	1
The Relation Between College Education and Beliefs about Parent Discipline	1
Relations Among Parental Psychological Control, Perceived Legitimate Authority, and Self-Worth in Asian-American and European-American Emerging Adults	1
Age-Differential Effects of Proactive Control in Dual Tasking: The Moderating Effect of Task Difficulty	1
Role of Mentalization as a Mediator Between Childhood Trauma and Resilience in Emerging Adults of Pakistan and Türkiye: A Cross-Cultural Study	1
Birth-Related Posttraumatic Growth: The Role of Social Support, Perceived Control, and Mindfulness	1