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Papers

(The median citation count of Self and Identity 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of spirituality in identity after trauma: a scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence	13
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and mental health: relationships with self-esteem, dispositional optimism and coping	11
Tell me you’re religious without saying you’re religious: An identity-signaling account of prejudice against atheists	10
How narcissism relates to upward-status disagreement in virtual project design teams	9
Self-compassion, social cognition, and self-affect in adolescence: A longitudinal study	9
Self-monitoring, status, and balance of power in romantic relationships	9
The role of psychopathology centrality in psychopathology stability and associations with life satisfaction in adolescence	8
Development and initial validation of a scale to measure momentary self-concept clarity	8
Prospective associations among self-concept clarity, appearance comparisons, and thin-ideal internalization	8
The effect of induced happiness versus sadness on three types of self-control tasks	8
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder: The moderating role of sexual identity strength	8
The cultural identity of first-generation adult immigrants: A meta-analysis	8
Daily experiences of ethnic minority women at work: Moving toward ingroups and outgroups is related to identity motives fulfillment	7
The relationships between multiple facets of self-concept clarity and depression	7
Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses	7
Agnosticism as a distinct type of nonbelief: the role of indecisiveness, maximization, and low self-enhancement	7
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism	6
Treat yourself: both positive and negative affect can provide justifications for self-regulatory indulgence	6
The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior	6
United as one? Personal and social identity threats differentially predict cooperation and prejudice toward minorities	6
The benefits of being clear: role clarity in stepmotherhood is associated with greater overall identity clarity and well-being	6
Daily levels of perceived context of reception and self-esteem among U.S. Latine university students: The moderating role of normative identity styles	5
The effects of conflict resolution styles on perceived relational self-concept change	5
Self, identity, and negative youth adaptation: Introduction to the special issue	5
Social Class Identity Integration and Success for First-Generation College Students: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Generalizability	5

Ideological identity: worldviews and values are self-defining	5
The role of self-compassion in the effects of living alone and quarantine on mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	5
The challenge of finding noncontingent, universal worth for elite U.S. college students	5
Envisioning positive future selves: Perceptions of the future self and psychological adaptation in recent migrants	5
Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal	4
The defeated self: Evidence that entrapment moderates first name priming effects on failure-thought accessibility	4
Playing to the gallery: investigating the normative explanation of ingroup favoritism by testing the impact of imagined audience	4
Life projects, motivational and volitional features, and field of possibilities: A theoretical model	4
Identity development across the transition from primary to secondary school: The role of personality and the social context	4
True-self-as-guide lay theory endorsement across five countries	4
Me, myself, and my stereotypes: does retraining gender stereotypes change men’s self-concept?	3
Anti-social behavior and soccer identities: different continents, same mindset?	3
Global and body-related self-conscious emotions: exploring associations to positive and negative mental health	3
The iii-rg: An individual difference measure of intersectional identities integration of race and gender identities	3
Incorporating physical appearance into one’s sense of self: Self-concept clarity, thin-ideal internalization, and appearance-self integration	3
Chronic and contextual identity salience: Assessing dual-dimensional salience with the Identity Salience Questionnaire (ISQ)	3
Detecting biracial identity strength: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate	3
What is sexual self-concept?: a Q-methodology study	3
The content and application of the lay theory of self-esteem	3
Indirect measures of social identities: implicit association tests assess self-categorization, match–mismatch paradigms distinguish identification from disidentification	3
Identity formation from a cross-cultural perspective: Identity statuses and profiles among German and Zambian adolescents	3
Exploring the association between community service participation and identity development among middle adolescents: a study in Hong Kong	3
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“Who am I?”, diminished sense of self in Korsakoff’s syndrome	2
Trait self-control and beliefs about the utility of emotions and emotion regulation in self-control performance	2
The moral identity picture scale (MIPS): Measuring the full scope of moral identity	2
Making America great for whom?: How Trump’s Presidency affected fit and national identity among targets of bias	2
Personal identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors: Exploring associations and mechanisms in adolescents and emerging adults	2
Why is authenticity associated with being and acting extraverted? Exploring the mediating role of positive affect	2
Development of self-concept clarity from ages 11 to 24: Latent growth models of Chinese adolescents	2
I’ll take the high road: Paths to goal pursuit and identity-based interpretations of difficulty	2
Associations between the implicit needs for affiliation and power and identity development in a sample of Zambian adolescents	2
Examining the associations between endorsement of disability models and system justification within disabled and non-disabled Individuals	2
Goal completion moderates the association between immoral behavior and self-perceived authenticity	2
Pinning down state authenticity: defining and validating a state authenticity measure	2
“We are the 99%”: Exploring the impact of politicized wealth-based identity on the established middle-class	1
“I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition	1
“Mom always liked you best!”: Concern for parental regard in sibling comparisons	1
Navigating the ups and downs: Peer and family autonomy support during personal goals and crises on identity development	1
The role of passion in the resilience process	1
Professional and religious identity conflict: individual and organizational dynamics in ethically-charged circumstances	1
Bored and better: Interpersonal boredom results in people feeling not only superior to the boring individual, but also to others	1
Reducing prejudice by enhancing the other rather than the self	1
Identity lost and found: Self-concept clarity in social network site contexts	1
Knowing who I am depends on who I’ve become: Linking self-concept clarity and temporal self-comparison	1
Unattractive, corrupted, and culpable feared self-themes: Expanding our understanding of self-concept in relation to eating pathology	1
Under pressure: Locomotion and assessment in the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Gender stereotypes, intellectual performance, and stereotype validation: The role of lay theories of intelligence	1
Radicalized Identity Styles: Investigating Sociocultural Challenges, Identity Styles, and Extremism	1
Essentialist beliefs about the self predict psychological well-being	1

I am not the parent I should be: Cross-sectional and prospective associations between parental self-discrepancies and parental burnout	1
Self-compassion and negative outgroup attitudes: The mediating role of compassion for others	1
“I am agnostic, not atheist”: The role of open-minded, prosocial, and believing dispositions	1
A leadership looking glass: How reflected appraisals of leadership shape individuals’ own perceived prototypicality and group identification	1
Hawai‘i face database: a racially and ethnically diverse set of facial stimuli	1
Between-individuals and within-individual relations between self-insecurity and unpleasant repetitive thinking	1
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation predict well-being	1