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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence	48
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	34
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	23
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	19
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	19
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	17
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	15
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?	14
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	14
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	14
The psychometric properties of the parent-reported reactive-proactive aggression Questionnaire	11
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	11
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	10
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	10
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	10
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	9
Factors related to internet gaming disorder: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents in Türkiye and the United Kingdom	8
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	8
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	8
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	7
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	7
Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale	7
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	7
The pleasure of thinking in human development	7
Testing auditory social cognition precursors in 12-month-old infants through remote videoconference setting	7

Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	6
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	6
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	6
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	6
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	6
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	5
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	5
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)	5
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	5
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	4
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	4
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	4
Correction	4
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	4
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	4
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	4
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective	3
A matter of style? Parenting behaviors of mothers of typically-developing children, children with mild intellectual disability, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children	3
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	3
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	3
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	3
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	3
Children’s gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour	3
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	3
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	3
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	3
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	3
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in 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
A brief positive psychology intervention implemented in schools: a quasi-experimental pilot study on its impact on early and middle adolescents’ mental health	2
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	2
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	2
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2
Testing maltreatment and psychopathic traits in the distinction of variants in adolescents in residential care	2
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation	2
The relationship between GD and ED in adolescents seeking for medical GR	2
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals	2
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	2
The Polish version of the empathy questionnaire for children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance	2
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	2
Assessing personality functioning in adolescence: Italian validation of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for Adolescents (DEQ-A)	2
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	2
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	2
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	2
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	2
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms	2
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity	2

Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	1
A contribution to the Italian validation of the Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC)	1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	1
Defense against proliferation in developmental psychology	1
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	1
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles	1
Gender influences on children’s selective trust of adult testimony in Iranian context	1
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	1
Psychometric properties of a group-based measure of children’s growth mindset	1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	1
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	1
The development of gender biases in the attribution of distributive fairness	1
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions	1
Vulnerability to early stressful life events: The moderating role of HOMER1 gene in the gene × environment interaction	1
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries	1
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	1
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	1
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study	1
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes	1
Training preschoolers with language games: enhancing theory of mind, emotion understanding, prosocial orientation, and language ability	1
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence	1