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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Studying parenting in adolescence from a dynamic perspective: the case of autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting	39
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	34
Domain-specific correlates of parental and romantic identity processes	27
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	25
Mediating role of parental depression, parental bonding, and child self-esteem between family income and child depression: a longitudinal study	20
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	16
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	13
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	13
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	13
Self-isolation practices and perceived social support from friends: The impact on adolescents’ mental health	12
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	11
Emotional understanding: a training study with Pakistani preschoolers	11
Reliability and validity of representational mind-mindedness in mothers of infants	9
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	9
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	9
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	9
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	9
Human development in times of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	8
I scratched your back; should you not scratch mine? The expectation of reciprocity in 4- to 6-year-old children following a prosocial investment	8
Sleep extension among adolescents promotes positive, goal-directed emotional responses during social interactions: a Pilot study	8
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults	7
Teachers’ responses to bullying: Next steps for researchers	7
The psychometric qualities of a short version of the multidimensional overprotective parenting scale	7
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries	7

Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	7
Parenting styles and its relations with personal and social adjustment beyond adolescence: Is the current evidence enough?	7
Theory of Mind and academic self-concept in early adolescence: The role of gender	6
The brief self-control scale: Dimensionality and psychometric properties in Greek young adults	6
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	6
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	6
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	5
Longitudinal link between moral disengagement and bullying among children and adolescents: A systematic review	5
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	5
Bias-based harassment and bullying: a commentary	5
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	5
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	4
Emotion recognition, self-knowledge, and perceptions of leisure time activities in emerging adolescents: A longitudinal study	4
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	4
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	4
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	4
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	4
Cascades linking school achievement and engagement to the acculturation of immigrant-origin youth	4
Field dependence-independence mediates the association between visual perception and mathematics. A cross-sectional study in children and preadolescents.	4
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	4
Examining links between social withdrawal subtypes and internalizing problems among Italian primary school children	4
Assessing student–teacher relationship quality in cross-cultural contexts: Psychometric properties of student–teacher relationship drawings	4
Variations in early relational vocabulary development: How do children become language-specific users?	4
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	4
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	4
Cross-cultural differences in children’s evaluations of antisocial and prosocial lies: A meta-analytic review	3
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	3
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	3
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms	3
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	3
Psychometric evaluation and measurement equivalence of the Adolescents’ Societal Belongingness Scale (ASBS)	3
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	3
The influence of tool use experience on efficient grasping in children	3
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	3
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	2
Growing up in a challenging environment: A cultural analysis of self-regulation development in poverty	2
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2
Longitudinal associations between psychopathic traits and social support with cyberbullying and cyber-victimization	2
Intersubjectivity in interactions between breastfeeding infants and their mothers: a longitudinal observational study in the first year of life	2
Early mindreading scale: From joint attention to false-belief understanding	2
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	2
Sexism, paternal self-efficacy, and relationship quality as predictors of father’s involvement: findings from Türkiye	2
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	2
How do children, adolescents, and young adults relate to climate change? Implications for developmental psychology	2
The moderating role of preadolescents humour styles in the relationship of victimization with internalized and externalized symptoms	2
Newborns’ ability to match non-speech audio-visual information in the absence of temporal synchrony	2
Relation between social avoidance and loneliness in urban Chinese children: a moderated-mediation model	2
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	2

Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	2
Self-rated physical attractiveness and its relation to psychological well-being across adolescence	2
An exploratory study of the relationship between motor skills and indicators of cognitive and socio-emotional development in preschoolers	2
Children and war – vulnerability and resilience	2
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	2
Environmental mediating mechanisms in the associations between parental depressive symptoms and preschoolers internalizing problems: results from a cross-sectional study	1
Outdoor play areas in childcare settings and children’s physical aggression: A longitudinal study of Norwegian kindergartens	1
Children’s Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with attitudes, family structure, and mothers’ Well-being	1
Association between language and early numerical development – The case of quantifiers	1
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	1
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	1
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	1
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	1
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	1
Direct and Indirect Contributions of Child Temperament, Parenting Stress, and Bedtime Routines to Children’s Sleep Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Preschool children’s moral self-concept relates to their guilt-related behaviour	1
Mental toughness is a mediator of the relationship between positive childhood experiences and wellbeing	1
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	1
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	1
Evaluation of prosocial actions performed by dynamic shapes at 17 months of age	1
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	1
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	1
Popularity matters: Moderating role of popularity on the relation between perceived peer pressure for intervention and Chinese adolescents’ bystander behaviours in bullying	1
Correction	1
What factors contribute to LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration? The roles of general and LGBTQ+ moral disengagement	1
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity	1