OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Developmental Psychology 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
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	41
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	38
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	29
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	26
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	23
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	19
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	15
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	13
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	13
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	13
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	13
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	13
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	12
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	10
Victimization in bullying and cyberbullying and organized physical activity: The mediating effect of physical self-concept in adolescents	10
Understanding future thinking among school-age children : A review of studies	10
The pleasure of thinking in human development	9
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	9
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	9
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	9
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	8
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	8
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	8
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	8
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	7

From environment to genes… and back to the environment	7
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	7
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	7
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	7
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	7
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	6
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	6
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	6
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	6
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	5
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	5
Correction	5
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	5
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	4
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	4
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	4
The quality of mother-child feeding interactions during COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study on an Italian sample	4
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	4
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective	4
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	4
A matter of style? Parenting behaviors of mothers of typically-developing children, children with mild intellectual disability, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children	4
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	3
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	3
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals	3
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults	3
The influence of tool use experience on efficient grasping in children	3
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	3
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	3
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	3
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	3
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	3
Development of civic and political engagement in schools: A structural equation model of democratic school characteristics’ influence on different types of participation	2
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	2
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions	2
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study	2
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence	2
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	2
Gender influences on children’s selective trust of adult testimony in Iranian context	2
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation	2
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	2
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms	2
Vulnerability to early stressful life events: The moderating role of HOMER1 gene in the gene × environment interaction	2
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity	2
Longitudinal associations between parental early psychological distress and children’s emotional and behavioural problems during early childhood and self-reported social functioning in 11-year-old chi	2
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	2
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	2
Newborns’ ability to match non-speech audio-visual information in the absence of temporal synchrony	2

The Polish version of the empathy questionnaire for children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	2
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles	2
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes	2
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries	2
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	2
Loneliness and prosocial behaviors in childhood and early adolescence: examining the role of teacher–student relationship quality at school	1
Reliability of salivary cortisol levels in toddlers	1
Teachers’ compassionate love, teachers’ esteem and students’ attitudes towards the justice system: The mediating role of school belonging	1
Intersubjectivity in interactions between breastfeeding infants and their mothers: a longitudinal observational study in the first year of life	1
Parenting styles and its relations with personal and social adjustment beyond adolescence: Is the current evidence enough?	1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	1
Construct validity of the Coding Interactive Behaviour instrument for fathers of infants	1
Prestige norms of moral disengagement, prejudice, and ethnic bullying: a study among Italian early adolescents	1
Off on the wrong foot: Task avoidance at the outset of primary school anticipates academic difficulties and declining peer acceptance	1
What factors contribute to LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration? The roles of general and LGBTQ+ moral disengagement	1
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	1
The role of attachment styles in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review from the perspective of a transactional development model	1
A multifaceted developmental psychology. The harvest of the 23rd ECDP. An introduction	1
The effect of school interpersonal relationship quality on adolescent depression: the role of perceived stress and OXTR gene	1
Can we increase children’s rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture	1
Children’s Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with attitudes, family structure, and mothers’ Well-being	1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	1
Profiles of parental involvement, adolescent activity, and trust and collaboration: adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and socioeconomic status	1
Integrated multidimensional constructs of adolescent civic engagement: opportunities for theorizing the role of normative developmental competences and social change	1