OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Self and Identity is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and mental health: relationships with self-esteem, dispositional optimism and coping	12
The role of spirituality in identity after trauma: a scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence	12
How narcissism relates to upward-status disagreement in virtual project design teams	10
Tell me you’re religious without saying you’re religious: An identity-signaling account of prejudice against atheists	10
Development and initial validation of a scale to measure momentary self-concept clarity	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 relationships between multiple facets of self-concept clarity and depression	8
The role of psychopathology centrality in psychopathology stability and associations with life satisfaction in adolescence	8
The effect of induced happiness versus sadness on three types of self-control tasks	8
Prospective associations among self-concept clarity, appearance comparisons, and thin-ideal internalization	8
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder: The moderating role of sexual identity strength	8
Agnosticism as a distinct type of nonbelief: the role of indecisiveness, maximization, and low self-enhancement	8
The cultural identity of first-generation adult immigrants: A meta-analysis	8
Exploring ethnic identity in early adolescence: Psychometric evaluation of the multigroup ethnic identity measure (MEIM) in an ethnically diverse population-based sample of young people in Aotearoa Ne	7
Daily experiences of ethnic minority women at work: Moving toward ingroups and outgroups is related to identity motives fulfillment	7
Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses	7
Treat yourself: both positive and negative affect can provide justifications for self-regulatory indulgence	6
United as one? Personal and social identity threats differentially predict cooperation and prejudice toward minorities	6
A new look at capturing social identity compatibility in transition: extending and applying the social identity model of identity change to student transition to university	5
Daily levels of perceived context of reception and self-esteem among U.S. Latine university students: The moderating role of normative identity styles	5
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism	5
Envisioning positive future selves: Perceptions of the future self and psychological adaptation in recent migrants	5
Development of the selflessness/self-centeredness Inventory – trait (SSI-T)	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 spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior	5
Ideological identity: worldviews and values are self-defining	5
The effects of conflict resolution styles on perceived relational self-concept change	5
The challenge of finding noncontingent, universal worth for elite U.S. college students	5
The benefits of being clear: role clarity in stepmotherhood is associated with greater overall identity clarity and well-being	5
Self, identity, and negative youth adaptation: Introduction to the special issue	4
True-self-as-guide lay theory endorsement across five countries	4
Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal	4
Identity development across the transition from primary to secondary school: The role of personality and the social context	4
Global and body-related self-conscious emotions: exploring associations to positive and negative mental health	4
Life projects, motivational and volitional features, and field of possibilities: A theoretical model	4
Chronic and contextual identity salience: Assessing dual-dimensional salience with the Identity Salience Questionnaire (ISQ)	4
The defeated self: Evidence that entrapment moderates first name priming effects on failure-thought accessibility	4