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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	42
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence	31
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	21
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	15
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	15
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	14
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	12
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	12
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	12
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	12
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	10
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	10
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?	9
“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
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	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
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	8
The pleasure of thinking in human development	7
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	7
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	7
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	7
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

Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	6
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	6
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	5
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	5
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
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	4
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	4
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
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)	4
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	4
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
Correction	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
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	3
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	3
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	3
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	3
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	3
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	3
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
Children’s gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour	3
Dutch adaptation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL): a validity and reliability study in adolescents and young adults	2
Triadic relationship among the frequency of role-play, self-regulatory behaviour in role-play, and self-regulation in preschool classrooms	2
The coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic and lockdown: a validation study in an Italian sample	2
Development of civic and political engagement in schools: A structural equation model of democratic school characteristics’ influence on different types of participation	2
Vulnerability to early stressful life events: The moderating role of HOMER1 gene in the gene × environment interaction	2
Emotional intelligence and motor competence in children, adolescents, and young adults	2
Analysis of sex differences in cognitive profiles and cognitive flexibility in school-aged autistic individuals	2
Associations between moral identity, social goal orientations, and moral decisions in adolescents	2
The parent-report Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) in Italian preschoolers: factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity	2
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: a corpus-based study	2
Testing maltreatment and psychopathic traits in the distinction of variants in adolescents in residential care	2
Gender influences on children’s selective trust of adult testimony in Iranian context	2
Maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants: a four-month longitudinal and naturalistic study	2
The effect of EF on PM performance in school-age children	2
The Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R): factor structure and psychometric properties	2
Influence of early metacognition on children’s later regulation behaviours: the case of the memorability heuristic	2
“Mom, dad, I can handle this!”: development of the coping inventory for children and adolescents during the pandemic lockdown	2
Young children’s behaviour predictions in direct reciprocal situations	2
An examination of college students’ unwanted pursuit of ex-romantic partners: relations to parental warmth and difficulties in emotion regulation	2
Is playing video games during COVID-19 lockdown related to adolescent well-being? The role of emotional self-efficacy and positive coping	2
Emotion matching task: Preliminary validation in Croatian sample	2
The Polish version of the empathy questionnaire for children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance	2
From the children of today to the adults of tomorrow	1
Parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived social support	1
A longitudinal assessment of the stability of the three-dimensional moral self-concept during early childhood	1

Psychometric properties of a group-based measure of children’s growth mindset	1
The role of stress mindset and academic buoyancy in school burnout in middle adolescence	1
Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education	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
Teachers’ compassionate love, teachers’ esteem and students’ attitudes towards the justice system: The mediating role of school belonging	1
Validation of the Brief Shame and Guilt Questionnaire for Children and young adolescents in Persian	1
From risk to resilience: rethinking anti-bullying interventions to improve mental health outcomes	1
Integrated multidimensional constructs of adolescent civic engagement: opportunities for theorizing the role of normative developmental competences and social change	1
The development of gender biases in the attribution of distributive fairness	1
Parental reflective functioning and preschool children’s psychosocial functioning: the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation	1
Empathy and theory of mind development at preschool age: a one-year cross-lagged panel study	1
Is Moral Judgement Maturity Merely the Opposite of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions or Moral Disengagement?	1
A measure of attributions for peer victimization: psychometric properties and differences among bullying roles	1
Intersubjectivity in interactions between breastfeeding infants and their mothers: a longitudinal observational study in the first year of life	1
Italian validation of the Adolescent Family Process short-form questionnaire	1
Even less visible: disadvantaged children in disadvantaged countries	1
A contribution to the Italian validation of the Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC)	1
Defense against proliferation in developmental psychology	1
Understanding the association between moral disengagement and ethnic victimization: roles of bystanders in class	1
Training preschoolers with language games: enhancing theory of mind, emotion understanding, prosocial orientation, and language ability	1
Profiles of parental involvement, adolescent activity, and trust and collaboration: adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and socioeconomic status	1
Correctly identifying and reacting to others’ sadness: investigating three parent-child interventions for limited prosocial emotions	1
What factors contribute to LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration? The roles of general and LGBTQ+ moral disengagement	1