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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence	51
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	36
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	25
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	21
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	21
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	21
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	18
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	15
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	15
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?	14
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	11
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	11
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	11
The psychometric properties of the parent-reported reactive-proactive aggression Questionnaire	11
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	10
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	10
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	9
Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale	9
Factors related to internet gaming disorder: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents in Türkiye and the United Kingdom	9
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	8
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	8
The pleasure of thinking in human development	8
Between interest and activism: a person-centred approach to political participation among Greek adolescents	8
Testing auditory social cognition precursors in 12-month-old infants through remote videoconference setting	8
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	7

Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	7
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
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	6
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
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	5
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)	5
Correction	5
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	5
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	5
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	4
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	4
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	4
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	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
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	4
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective	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
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	4
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	3
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals	3
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	3
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	3
The attainment of crawling as context for conflict, negative affect, and physical aggression	3
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	3
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	3
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults	3
Children’s gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour	3
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	3
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	3
A brief positive psychology intervention implemented in schools: a quasi-experimental pilot study on its impact on early and middle adolescents’ mental health	3
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
The Polish version of the empathy questionnaire for children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance	2
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles	2
Development of civic and political engagement in schools: A structural equation model of democratic school characteristics’ influence on different types of participation	2
Vocational identity and cognitive emotion regulation among first-year university students: are they related?	2
Adolescent bodies and brains in flux: exploring therapeutic pathways for co-occurring anorexia nervosa and gender distress	2
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	2
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	2
Vulnerability to early stressful life events: The moderating role of HOMER1 gene in the gene × environment interaction	2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	2
Assessing personality functioning in adolescence: Italian validation of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for Adolescents (DEQ-A)	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	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
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation	2
Testing maltreatment and psychopathic traits in the distinction of variants in adolescents in residential care	2
The relationship between GD and ED in adolescents seeking for medical GR	2
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	1
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence	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
Training preschoolers with language games: enhancing theory of mind, emotion understanding, prosocial orientation, and language ability	1
Defense against proliferation in developmental psychology	1
A contribution to the Italian validation of the Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC)	1
Integrated multidimensional constructs of adolescent civic engagement: opportunities for theorizing the role of normative developmental competences and social change	1
Construct validity of the Coding Interactive Behaviour instrument for fathers of infants	1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	1
Profiles of parental involvement, adolescent activity, and trust and collaboration: adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and socioeconomic status	1
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	1
The development of gender biases in the attribution of distributive fairness	1
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes	1
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions	1
Psychometric properties of a group-based measure of children’s growth mindset	1
Intersubjectivity in interactions between breastfeeding infants and their mothers: a longitudinal observational study in the first year of life	1
The role of attachment styles in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review from the perspective of a transactional development model	1
What factors contribute to LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration? The roles of general and LGBTQ+ moral disengagement	1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	1
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	1
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	1
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study	1
Gender influences on children’s selective trust of adult testimony in Iranian context	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
Teachers’ compassionate love, teachers’ esteem and students’ attitudes towards the justice system: The mediating role of school belonging	1
A multifaceted developmental psychology. The harvest of the 23rd ECDP. An introduction	1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	1