OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Psychology in Africa is 2. 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
Gratitude to nature and pro-environmental behaviour: A moderated mediated model	18
How do consumers react to big data-based personalised pricing? A cognition–affect–behaviour perspective	17
A psychological contract for the digital mindset: Factor analysis of the Psychological Contract Inputs-Outcomes Inventory (PCIOI)	16
Community social capital and mental health participation: Test of psychosocial mediators in two resource-poor urban communities in Ghana	12
Social anxiety and problematic social network site use: The sequential mediating role of self-esteem and self-concept clarity	11
Servant leadership and work performance of public servants: Exploring the mediating role of public service motivation and job satisfaction	10
Mental health literacy in black South African communities	10
Interpersonal violence experienced by nurses caring for persons with intellectual disability: A phenomenological study	10
Heavy episodic alcohol use among adults: Prevalence and correlates in Central African Republic	9
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective	9
Impact of workplace adversity on well-being of Ghanaian bankers: Do resilience and psychological safety matter?	9
Tourism graduate students’ employability skills: Results and implications of a Zimbabwean study	8
Spatiotemporal expectations of apparent motion and the effect of attentional control	8
The quality of care in correctional facilities in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review of literature	8
Negative social interactions and the persistence of depression: Evidence from the women of Westbury, South Africa	7
Fear of COVID-19 and job insecurity among hospitality industry employees: The mediating role of happiness	7
Teacher support and student engagement in mathematics: The chain mediating role of academic self-efficacy and achievement goal orientation	7
Wellness needs of academic employees: A case study of a South African university	7
How psychological contract breach relates to façades of conformity: The mediating role of emotional labour	7
Hope and its relation to grit and subjective well-being among first-year South African university students	7
Mindfulness and meaning in life: The mediating effect of self-concept clarity and coping self-efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa , Ann Shuttleworth-Edwards	6
How and when does employees’ learning goal orientation contribute to taking charge behaviour? The roles of empowering leadership and work-related flow	6
Mothers’ perceptions of children’s emotional behaviour problems and parenting sense of competence: The mediating role of maternal meta-emotion philosophy	6
Father’s parenting attitude and teacher-child relationships: Mediating role of children’s self-regulation ability	6

Strengths mindset and job satisfaction: The mediating role of thriving at work and the moderating role of authentic leadership	6
Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style	5
Identity processing styles and personal growth initiative in college students: The mediating role of cultural tightness–looseness	5
Validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index in the Arab context: Results and implications of a Moroccan study	5
Servant leadership and employee attitudes within a South African state-owned enterprise: Mediation by employee motivation	5
The role of career wellness in living and studying for South African first-year university students	5
The experience machine: How our minds predict and shape reality	5
Upward social comparisons on social networking sites (SNSs) and subjective well-being: The mediating role of envy	5
A latent class analysis of adverse childhood life events in Ugandan adolescents	5
Aspirations and meanings of lighter skin tone in the African context: A rapid review	5
The classroom environment and college students’ being silent/hidden dropouts: The chain of mediating effects of college identification and academic achievement	5
Call centre support staff job crafting and employee engagement: Controlling the effects of sociodemographic characteristics	5
Exploring the process of harsh parenting on online aggressive behaviour: The mediating role of trait anger	4
Prevalence and predictors of comorbid current alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use among school adolescents in Liberia and Mauritius	4
The “double-edged sword” effect of social media usage on postgraduate student creativity	4
Family quality of life of Ghanaian families raising people with intellectual disability	4
Validation of Learning Transfer Inventory System (LTIS) in Cameroon teachers: Measurement invariance and latent mean difference across sex	4
Correlates of lived career calling: The role of perceived calling and organisational cultural identity among police cadets	4
Defender self-efficacy and defender behaviour in school bullying of primary school pupils: The role of perceived responsibility and sex	4
Linking exploitative leadership and employees’ work–family conflict: The roles of employees’ power distance orientation and emotional exhaustion	4
Areas of work–life and psychological reward satisfaction among new Chinese graduate nurses: The moderating role of psychological capital	4
Teaching and researching motivation	4
Attachment and general well-being in breast cancer patients: Mediation of body esteem and social support	4
Achieving career marketability through helping others: A moderated mediation model	4
Relational importance in early and middle adulthood age groups in South Africa	4
Self-consciousness and grit in rural adolescents: Moderation by self-esteem and mediation by achievement motivation	4
Kindergarten teachers’ objective career success and subjective well-being: The mediating role of professional identity	4
How perspective taking influences obesity stereotypes: The mediating effect of intergroup contact	4
Linking servant leadership to work strains: The mediating effect of strengths use	4
Purposeful rumination on childhood trauma and post-traumatic growth among college students: A moderated mediation model	4
Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives	4
Physical exercise and aggressive behaviour among rural children: Cognitive flexibility mediation and peer relationship quality moderation	4
The psychological well-being of schoolteachers in South Africa: A critical review	4
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students	4
Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms	4
Health provider administration functions, patient satisfaction, and loyalty: Their mediation by patient healthcare service quality perceptions	4
“It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa	4
Cultural identity, cultural confidence, and folk activities: An empirical study of the folk culture of Moon-cake Gambling at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xiamen, China	4
Cultural Models of Emotions	4
How loneliness influences the city identity of Chinese migrant children: A moderated mediation model	3
Parental marital quality and adolescents’ online social addiction: Influences of adolescents’ interpersonal sensitivity and peer relationships	3
School engagement mediation of the implicit self-entity theories and mental health problems among Chinese high school students: A longitudinal study	3
Purpose in life and academic performance: Grit mediation among Chinese college students	3
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice	3
Top management team cognition and strategic decision performance: The mediating role of team conflict	3
Proactive personality and career success of higher education teachers: The mediating effects of job crafting	3
Employee turnover intention: The predictive role of work-related burnout and psychosocial climate among university workers	3
Overqualification perception and employee voice: Mediation by dual path autonomous and controlled motivation	3
How textual and picture cues influence motor skill learning in short instructional videos: Evidence from eye-tracking experiments	3
Incident and persistent poor sleep quality and associated factors among a rural ageing population in South Africa: A longitudinal study	3

Mental health, lifestyle factors and subsequent falls among ageing adults in South Africa	3
Social support and self-concept clarity as mediators between college students’ passive social network site use and loneliness	3
Humble leadership and work fatigue: The roles of self-efficacy and perceived team autonomy-support	3
How does social media use affect employee voice behaviour?	3
Temporary academics in South African higher education institutions: Their lived precarity experiences	3
Authenticity, self-control, and smartphone dependence in adolescence: Path analysis and latent profile analysis	3
Cultural knowledge and perceptions of students towards mental illness in South Africa	3
Proactive personality and academic procrastination in graduate students: Their chain-mediation by research self-efficacy and learning adaptability	3
Effects of materialism and perceived social support on the mental health of college students	3
Childhood emotional abuse and gamebullying among Chinese youths: The mediating roles of mindfulness and Machiavellianism	3
Sense of power and online trolling among college students: Mediating effects of self-esteem and moral disengagement	3
Online risk exposure and mental health in Chinese junior high school students: A latent profile analysis	3
Influence of career orientations and career guidance need on students’ employability attributes	3
Alcohol misuse prevalence and correlates among school adolescents from national surveys in Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3
Business innovation intent among college students: Contributions of psychological capital and entrepreneurial self-efficacy	3
The qualitative methodology: Preparedness and experiences of journal reviewers	3
Alexithymia and mobile phone addiction among college students: Mediation by boredom proneness and anxiety	3
Group membership, social identification and mental health: A test of social cure or curse narrative in resource-poor communities in Ghana	3
Academic researchers’ work stress and work engagement: Hindrance stress appraisal mediation and psychological resilience moderation	3
Beauty and materiality: Subjective social class mediation of self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism in Chinese college students	3
Psychological empowerment and job burnout in Chinese kindergarten teachers: The mediating effect of occupational stress	2
A framework for digital talent assessment: Guidelines and applications	2
Pay satisfaction and work–life balance among Nigerian bank employees: The roles of psychological empowerment and gender	2
Religiosity and well-being among Nigerians: Exploring the mediating role of fatalism	2
Brand personality and purchase intention: The dual-mediating effects of brand attachment and nostalgia proneness	2
Older black rural South African adults’ perceptions on organ donation: An exploratory study	2
Mindfulness and mental health in medical staff in the COVID-19 period: Mediating role of perceived social support and sense of security	2
Telecommuting and job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of psychological detachment from work	2
Empathy and defender behaviour in bullying of young children: The mediating role of peer status	2
Double-edged sword effect of servant leadership on employee creativity: Mediation–moderation analysis	2
Low self-esteem and cyberbullying perpetration among Chinese adolescents: Mediation by catharsis and moderation by sex	2
Does parental education moderate the association between personal growth initiative, purpose in life and subjective well-being among Chinese college students?	2
Self-efficacy and career resilience: The mediating role of professional identity and work passion in kindergarten teachers	2
Exploring upbringing styles of highly resilient students in South Africa: A mixed methods study	2
Empowering women in South African law enforcement: Developing authenticity as best-self	2
COVID-related stressors on career insecurity: The moderating effects of family support and openness	2
Who does better on life satisfaction and meaning in life? A Mixed-methods exploration of demographic characteristics and well-being in Ghana	2
Social exclusion and social anxiety among Chinese undergraduate students: Fear of negative evaluation and resilience as mediators	2
Work method control of Nigerian armed forces personnel: Roles of psychological detachment and conscientiousness	2
How can work improve family life quality? The influence of thriving at work on family role performance and work–family balance satisfaction	2
Are fathers involved in diabetes management? A rapid review	2
Subjective socioeconomic status and envy in Chinese collectivist culture: The role of sense of control	2
Mental health among high school students in South Africa: Roles of childhood adversity, bullying behaviour, peer pressure, and self-esteem	2
The moderating role of emotional intelligence on the association between adverse childhood experiences and conduct problems of adolescents	2
COVID-19 restrictions lifting and the health of older adults: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	2
Collective Efficacy among schoolteachers: Influences on the relationship between Trust and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour	2
College students’ aesthetic affection and prosocial behaviour: The role of empathy	2
Social psychology in action: Evidence-based interventions from theory to practice	2
Validity and reliability of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among nursing interns	2
Graduate student challenge-hindrance scientific research stress and creativity: Mediating effect of creative self-efficacy	2
Work stressors and vicarious trauma among South African Police Service members	2
Sense of belonging and academic persistence among undergraduate university students: The chain mediation effect of emotional and academic adjustment	2