Journal of Youth Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Youth Studies 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assembling wellbeing: bodies, affects and the ‘conditions of possibility’ for wellbeing35
‘And school won’t teach me that!’ Urban youth activism programs as transformative sites for critical adolescent learning31
News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions28
Young environmental activists and Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics: collective engagement, generational agency, efficacy, belonging and hope25
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation24
Quality of life of NEET youth in comparative perspective: subjective well-being during the transition to adulthood24
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture: tweens, TikTok & privacy23
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition22
Reflexive habitus and the new obligation of choice: understanding young people’s light drinking and alcohol abstinence21
Digital dating abuse perpetration and impact: The importance of gender20
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset20
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: the impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal18
Understanding culture: the voices of urban Aboriginal young people18
The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’18
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change18
‘Young People and Environmental Activism: The Transformation of Democratic Politics’17
Cross-national Analysis of Legislation, Policy and Service Frameworks for Adolescent Young Carers in Europe17
Researching race in Australian youth studies16
Reframing immobility: young women aspiring to ‘good enough’ local futures15
Pathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy15
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol: what happens when the ‘sober generation’ grows up?14
‘It infuriates me': examining young adults’ reactions to and recommendations to fight misinformation about COVID-1914
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths: beyond the perpetrator tactics framework14
On the margins of citizenship: youth participation and youth exclusion in times of neoliberal urbanism13
Young political consumers between the individual and the collective: evidence from the UK and Greece13
The young protester: the impact of belongingness needs on political engagement12
Beyond (mis)-recognition: Muslim youth and religiosity in Australia12
Everyday social media use of young Australian adults11
The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity11
What makes youth become NEET? Evidence from Russia11
Young cosmopolitans and environmental politics: how postmaterialist values inform and shape youth engagement in environmental politics10
‘Because I am me': school bullying and the presentation of self in everyday school life10
Educational mismatch in recent university graduates. The role of labour mobility10
Young people in the middle: pathways, prospects, policies and a new agenda for youth research10
Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia10
Towards climate justice? Young climate activists in Finland on fairness and moderation9
Authentically engaging youth with foster care experience: definitions and recommended strategies from youth and staff9
‘This is our home’: young residents’ representations of Melbourne’s public housing towers during ‘hard lockdown’9
(Water) bottles and (street) barricades: the politicisation of lifestyle-centred action in youth climate strike participation9
Youth environmental activism in the age of social media: the case of Chile (2009-2019)9
Urban youth and the environmental commons: rejuvenating civic engagement through civic science9
University students’ experiences and perceptions of interventions for self-harm9
Identity formation and change in children and youth born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda8
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships8
Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex, adaptive systems8
The diversity of transitions during early adulthood in the Finnish labour market8
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies8
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany8
COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene8
Friendship barriers and supports: thoughts of young people with intellectual disabilities8
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals8
Cannabis, youth and social identity: the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence8
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective8
Mattering; changing the narrative in secondary schools for youth who truant7
The “NEET” category from the perspective of inequalities: toward a typology of school-to-work transitions among youth from lower class neighborhoods in the Brussels region (Belgium)7
Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people7
Narratives of Rwandan youth on post-genocide reconciliation: contesting discourses and identities in the making7
Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy7
Active citizens under Eighteen: minors in political protests7
Global South to Global North youth migration: a decolonial exploration of Black African youth experiences of migrating to and being in Australia7
‘I wanted to take on a lot of responsibility’. Reconstructing biographies of young people engaged in formal participation7
Housing after care: understanding security and stability in the transition out of care through the lenses of liminality, recognition and precarity6
Examining the relationship between civic engagement and mental health in young adults: a systematic review of the literature6
Religious homophily and friendship: socialisation between Muslim minority and Anglo majority youth in Australia6
Places of possibility: youth research as creative liberatory praxis6
‘Insighters’: the complexity of qualitative methods in youth music research6
(Dis)ordered social sequences of mobile young adults: spatial, social and return mobilities6
Participatory photography supporting the social inclusion of migrant youth6
Latin American young NEETs: Brazil as a case study for systemic risks of youth social exclusion6
Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop6
Resources and pace of leaving home among young adults in Poland5
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing5
Navigating between two the worlds of school and ‘being on the land’: Arctic Indigenous young people, structural violence, cultural continuity and selfhood5
Forming the capacity to aspire: young refugees’ narratives of family migration and wellbeing5
The low skills trap: the failure of education and social policies in preventing low-literate young people from being long-term NEET5
Informal sports for youth recovery: grassroots strategies in conflict and disaster geographies5
The role of thwarted belongingness on the relationship between microaggressions and mental health for LGBTQ+ emerging adults5
Storyscapes of place: First Nation youths’ photographic depictions of home5
Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence5
Belonging in multiple places: Pasifika young peoples’ experiences of living in Logan5
Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects5
‘Codeine crazy:’ a content analysis of prescription drug references in popular music5
‘I wouldn't want my family to cop anything’: examining the family of origin and its place in LGBTQIA+ young people’s social media practices5
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland5
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram5
Embodied circular migration: lived experiences of education and work of Nepalese children and youth5
Everyday interactions and political participation of Malaysian youth5
Maturing out of ‘binge drinking’: young adult women’s performance of age and gender in times of transition5
Dissecting the achievement generation: how different groups of early adolescents experience and navigate contemporary achievement demands5
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin5
A sense of unease: elite high school students negotiating historical privilege4
Mobilized, negotiated and balanced: Chinese school vloggers’ platform engagements and layered identity construction on Bilibili4
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union4
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs4
Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: a critical account of regional resilience across the Mediterranean EU South4
Many households but never a home: stories of resistance from Black youth navigating placement instability in Ontario’s child welfare system4
I ain’t stupid, I just don’t like school’: a ‘needs’ based argument for children’s educational provision in custody4
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’4
‘No, we vote for whoever we want to’: young British Muslims making new claims on citizenship amidst ongoing forms of marginalisation4
The characteristics of street codes and competing performances of masculinity on an inner-city housing estate4
Disentangling youth non-compliance with COVID-19 restrictions from gender, socioeconomic vulnerability and poor mental health: lessons from the first wave in Catalonia4
Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey4
Bringing disability studies and youth studies together to enhance understandings of youth transitions4
‘In your own head everyone is staring’: the disability related identity experiences of young people with hemiplegic cerebral palsy4
Heading for a better world: micropolitical activism of young people seeking social change4
Black bodies, Black queens, and the Black sisterhood on social media: perspectives from young African women in Australia4
Comparing young people's participation across political organizations from a life course perspective4
‘Frexting’: exploring homosociality among girls who share intimate images4
Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying: viewing young people’s talk about peer relationships through the lens of consent4
Negative chain referral sampling: doing justice to subcultural diversity4
Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter?4
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces3
Motivation to leave home during the transition to emerging adulthood among Turkish adolescents3
‘Empowering youth as change agents for climate change in South Africa’: challenges, caveats and course corrections3
‘Defined by the #CoronavirusOutbreak’: characterizing Gen Z in Twitter discourse surrounding COVID-193
Distribution of capital and school-related stress at elite high schools3
Alternative post-16 transitions: examining the career pathways of young women ‘on road’3
Playing without goals: gendered practices in recreational youth football3
‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education3
Neither studying nor working: free time as a solution?3
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’: legacy, care leavers and university study3
‘Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work3
Political interest, recognition and acceptance of voting responsibility, and electoral participation: young people’s perspective3
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia3
Youngsters’ choices within the field of vocational education in French-speaking Switzerland: the interplay of institutional influences, peer-group and habitus3
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown3
Examining civic engagement opportunities for system-involved youth: a comparative analysis3
The role of formal care services in supporting young people who provide unpaid care in England3
(Custodial) spaces to grow? Adolescent development during custodial transitions3
Temporal emotion work, gender and aspirations of left-behind youth in Indonesian migrant-sending villages3
Exclusion by design: uncovering systems of segregation and ‘ghettoization’ of so-called NEET and ‘disengaged’ youth on an employability course in a further education (FE) college3
Dialogue with youth ‘is not a dialogue among “elites”’: problematization of dialogue with unorganized youth in the EU3
Navigating towards sustainable working life – young people imagining the technologised future of work3
Youth in conflict: space and subculture3
‘That’s why it’s gambling, because you don’t know what you find in it!’ Perceptions of the relationship between gaming and gambling among young adult gamers3
Childbearing motivation at the onset of emerging adulthood3
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns3
The left behind: oil, youth and symbolic violence in the Niger delta2
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations2
What helps adult care leavers return to education? exploring the relevance of learner identity and the life course perspective2
Gender, love and the Internet: romantic online interactions in Chilean young people2
Risks and opportunities of digitally mediated interactions: young people’s meanings and experiences2
Individual and community-level predictors of hate-crime victimization among Finnish adolescents2
Learning to signal graduate employability: an exploratory study of UK students’ experiences of online recruitment processes2
Understanding the importance of connection: an indigenous exploration of the social and emotional well-being and resilience of a rural cohort of Aboriginal young people2
A critical examination of Australian youth case management: compounding governing spaces and infantilising self-management2
‘Doing things you don't wanna do’: young people's understandings of power inequalities and the implications for sexual consent2
The perks and pitfalls of conformity: unravelling the role of gender conformity in friendship satisfaction among adolescents2
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control2
An active investment in cultural capital: structured extracurricular activities and educational success in China2
Towards a revaluation of work in post-Fordist societies? Critical reconversions of highly skilled youth and negotiations of fluid relationships with work2
Emotion and social identification in music festivals on young’s subjective well-being2
Plans, hopes, dreams and evolving agency: case histories of young people navigating transitions.2
When visibility becomes political: visibility and stigmatisation of young people2
Political economy and young people’s transitions from education-to-work in the UK during and following the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns2
Going home: youth and aspirations in postconflict Marawi, Philippines2
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh2
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration2
Endorsing the Street Code: the impact of neighborhood gang activity on incarcerated youth2
The Y Generation Myth: young Israelis’ perceptions of gender and family life2
Are we Europeans? Secondary education students’ beliefs and sense of belonging to the European Union2
Rethinking education and work relationships in youth transition: an alternative metaphor2
Personal and community agency: factors associated with increased wellbeing amongst African refugee youth in Brisbane, Australia2
University students and the normalisation of illicit recreational drug use2
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk2
Gender issues for Italian young people: exploring gender identity and cultures in social autobiographies2
Not going to university: examining the role of ‘learning identities’ in young people’s decisions to embark on alternative post-18 pathways2
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia2
Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying: how young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education2
Young mothers in Australia: prioritising motherhood and resisting stereotypes1
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences1
Wild and tame zones in times of disharmony: Muslim boys and belonging in a primary school in Melbourne, Australia1
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment1
Sharing and liking as youth nano-level participation. Finnish students’ civic and political engagement in social media1
Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society1
What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health?1
From dreams to possibilities: the role of gender and family income in aspirations among youth in the city of Yazd1
‘Tai-Lao’ in Australia and ‘Losers’ in Taiwan: the stigma of working holidaymakers in neoliberal Taiwan1
The work of being well on campus: an institutional ethnography1
Political participation of refugee and host community youths: epistemic resistance through artistic and participatory spaces1
Sabrina as a sanction: teenaged witches and the perceived inauthenticity of youth1
Street efficacy, daily activities and youth perceptions of neighborhood safety1
‘We are slowly reclaiming for ourselves’: the generative possibilities of Indigenous youth voices1
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.1
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland1
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans1
Building viabilities: youth social action in the Indian Himalayas1
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond1
‘Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK1
The making of ‘exam ronins’: young people’s desire for public service jobs in China1
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective1
Care and Control Revisited: Parent–Youth Co-residence and the Negotiation of Adulthood in Hong Kong1
What can the experiences of young adult carers tell us about what can make services more helpful for them and their families?1
Lockdown practices: a portrait of young people in the family during the first lockdown in Portugal1
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry1
Talking about relational youth work: why language matters1
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives1
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia1
‘Like a frog in a well'. A qualitative study of adolescent girls’ life aspirations in Western Nepal1
‘I hope like they talk with us like how they talk with Irish’: ‘difference’, discrimination and affective inequality in the lives of young Syrian refugees resettled in Ireland1
Negotiating better futures – migration of Huaorani youth in rural Ecuador1
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia1
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts1
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories1
Youth resilience and training programmes in Australia and the US: Beyond neoliberal social therapeutics1
Shaping worker-citizenship: young vocational education graduates’ labour market positionings within new adulthood1
Youth military training in China: learning to ‘love the army’1
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university: an analysis from the middle1
Exploration of students’ career drivers and goals by grade level and gender in Atlantic Canada1
Precarious leisure in a teenage wasteland? Intertwining discourses on responsibility and girls’ place-making in rural Northern Sweden1
Youth radicalization and violent extremism: a study of pathways in the post-war context of Sri Lanka1
Transforming youth participation? Examining co-production in a school based time bank1
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states1
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda1
Educational outcomes of political participation? Young first-time voters 3 years after the Scottish Independence Referendum1
Young people’s citizenship activities at and beyond school – exploring a new theoretical framework with empirical data from a rural community in Germany1
Each person in their place: the ‘praxe’ as a ritual of integration, stratification and differentiation1
Are you for real? Investigating authenticity in community-based youth work practice1
Young women’s contradictory expectations and their perceived capabilities for future work-family reconciliation in Finland1
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation1
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary1
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences1
Remix this method: a creative approach to young people’s everyday lives as political arenas1
An older age colored by youth: the continuing significance of youth-generated cultural boundaries for Sixties affiliates1
‘Everyone here is willing to teach each other’: negotiations over hippie culture and resistance in Helsinki-based flow art community1
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation1
‘Unsuitable’ environments: a qualitative study of US college youth learning online while sheltering-in-place in spring 20201
Is there an Indian way of raving? Reading the cultural negotiations of Indian youth in the trans-local EDM scene1
Supporting integration through social connectedness: a development framework1
Political orientation in youth beyond the left-right divide: testing a three-factor model of political orientation and its relatedness to personal values1
Individual, failing: an analysis of film portrayals of the causes of young adult coresidence from 2010–20201
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent1
‘I have to start from where I’m capable:’ how low-income postsecondary students overcome financial and academic obstacles1
Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition1
Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ+ youth1
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