OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nordic Psychology is 0. 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
Prevalence estimates of depression and anxiety disorders among Icelandic University students when taking functional impairment into account	17
Status, pride, and educational motivation: Understanding differences in attitudes to education from the perspective of evolutionary emotion theory	12
Does deliberate practice surpass didactic training in learning empathy skills? – A randomized controlled study	11
Editorial	5
A good enough grip on life in youth	5
A longitudinal study of prevalence and predictors of incidence and persistence of sub-diagnostic social anxiety among Swedish adolescents	5
Mental health in Norwegian children and adolescents exposed to childhood maltreatment: a comparison to a general population sample	5
Psychological assumptions underlying credibility assessments in Finnish asylum determinations	4
Health-related effects of an intervention involving reduced working hours among women employed in the municipal eldercare	4
The Big Five Personality Traits as predictors of life satisfaction in Egyptian college students	4
Self-compassion as a mechanism of change in patients with eating disorders and childhood trauma receiving CFT-E; a study of within-person processes	4
Rape victims, adolescent social anxiety and Personality Disorders	4
Relatives’ lived experiences of losing a loved one to COVID-19: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Walking alone: how movement in nature was used by older people in response to feelings of being alone during COVID-19	3
Correction	2
Concussion among female athletes in Iceland: Stress, depression, anxiety, and quality of life	2
The role of mind-body bridging-based university psychology course for students’ well-being	2
With a little coping from my friends: a case study of voice, manager response and collective coping in an organisational context	2
Systematic review: Risk factors and mechanisms of radicalization in lone-actor grievance-fueled violence	2
The use of prerequisite for treatment and structure axis of the OPD-CA in psychodynamic treatment: The difficult search for the coherent self	2
The OPD-CA-2 axis interpersonal relations: A helpful tool for treatment planning? Relationship patterns of adolescent patients with persistent intrapsychic conflicts, structural deficits and trauma se	2
One diagnosis—different conflicts: Using the OPD-CA conflict axis as tool for treatment planning	2
Suicidal ideation among outpatients attending a public mental health clinic in Norway: rates, treatment effect, and associated characteristics	2
Effects of psychosocial interventions on dietary pathology in patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	2
Expanding the Recovery Experience Questionnaire into a 5-factor model by including a factor covering experiences of contrast	2

Differences in psychodynamic conflicts between healthy adolescents and adolescent patients: Results with the conflict questionnaire	2
WAIS-IV short form applied to a mixed neurological Swedish clinical sample	1
Drawings and self-portraits: a qualitative study on how children with hearing loss describe themselves and the communication with others	1
Strengthening parenting among refugees in Europe (SPARE): initial feasibility in Iceland and Norway	1
Psychological risk factors and selective prevention of panic disorder: Theoretical aspects and clinical implications	1
The development of facilitative interpersonal skills during 5-year psychology training programs: a cross-sectional study	1
Moving into communities of practice: experiences of psychology students in their internship	1
Correlates of maternal Openness	1
Psychological skills, mind and body, and abstract thinking	1
Correction	1
A patient perspective on non-attendance for psychotherapy in psychiatric outpatient care for patients with affective disorders	1
Integrating mindfulness practice into everyday life after completing a course in mindfulness-based stress reduction	1
Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS)	1
Editorial	1
Caregiver/child ratio and group size in Scandinavian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): a systematic review of qualitative research	1
Thinking abstractly about one’s physical pain: can abstraction reduce sensitivity to painful stimuli?	1
Blind spots in visible learning: A critique of John Hattie as an educational theorist	1
The Quantified Behavioural Test Plus (QbTest+) in adult ADHD	1
Longitudinal links between adolescent social anxiety and depressive symptoms: stressful experiences at home, in school and with peers	1
Negative life events and their association with anxiety in adolescents with subthreshold depression	1
Exploring the role of entitlement, Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing authoritarianism, and the moderating role of being single on misogynistic attitudes	1
Identity and the lived experiences of losing a loved One	1
Autism and depression. Helping individuals with autism get a good enough grip on life by means of cognitive and life psychological intervention	1
Can GAD-7 be used reliably to capture anxiety?: approaching evaluation of item quality using IRT	0
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden	0
Attachment security and disorganisation at 18 months associated with developmental play level at 30 months	0
Examining five-factor model personality traits among recently divorced Danes	0
Parenting behavior and psychodynamic conflicts: Cross-sectional findings in a normative sample of adolescents and their parents	0
Trust in strangers and friends: The roles of agreeableness, open-mindedness, perspective taking, and trustworthiness	0
Persistent physical symptoms and mental health problems among individuals seeking work rehabilitation	0
High Sensitivity: Factor structure of the highly sensitive person scale and personality traits in a high and low sensitivity group. Two gender—matched studies	0
Giving voice: experiences and needs of sexual assault survivors facing multiple adversities	0
Prevalence and correlates of nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among upper secondary school students in Iceland	0
The normativity of educational psychology practice	0
Managerial prerequisites – typical work situations for public sector managers and their relationship with well-being and leadership	0
Attention deficit and reading difficulty, intellectual humility, consumer choice, overspending, maternal substance misuse and trust	0
Editorial	0
Operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis in childhood and adolescence (OPD-CA): Changes across psychodynamic child and adolescent therapy	0
Correction	0
Network or hierarchy? Personality profiles of future military leaders	0
Maternal executive functioning is associated with infant sustained attention, but not executive functioning, in a sex-specific manner	0
Competence building in child mental health -A Norway-Cambodia transcultural experience	0
The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostic for Children and Adolescents (OPD-CA-2): a new diagnostic method to determine psychodynamic constructs	0
To work after retirement: a qualitative study among mental health nursing assistants	0
A preliminary investigation of intellectual humility as a protective factor for maladaptive personality traits	0
Factors related to rape victims’ decision to file police reports	0
Teachers’ strategies for managing shy students’ anxiety at school	0
Is self-compassion relevant for refugees? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between self-compassion and depression among Kurdish refugees in Norway	0
To intervene or not? Professionals' relation to early school leaving in Finnish general upper secondary education	0
Psychological prediction of stress-related hair steroid hormone levels in young men: a person-centered approach	0

Individual differences in autobiographical memory: a Danish version of the Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART)	0
COVID-19 pandemic, ADHD, social desirability, student anxiety and personality disorders	0
Psychological treatment outcomes for outpatients in a clinical context	0
Cultural orientation, social support, and discrimination in regard to adjustment among foreign workers in Denmark	0
Hope in the time of hopelessness	0
Oral health and quality of life among people with severe or long-term mental illness: A call for interprofessional collaboration	0
Operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis in childhood and adolescence (OPD-CA-2)—A useful tool for improving diagnoses of psychological illnesses	0
Psychotherapy, sensitivity, oral quality of life, intervention, dialogue, and group size	0
Editorial	0
Cognitive-behavioral group therapy for ADHD predominantly inattentive presentation: A feasibility study of a new treatment protocol	0
Orientation and motivational climate in elite handball players: Multivariate modeling of performance	0
Linking aberrant pauses during object naming to letter and word decoding speed in elderly with attention complaints	0
How leadership course facilitators cope with difficult course situations	0
Uplifts and functional coping versus hassles and dysfunctional coping: assessment of a balance model on health outcomes	0
“Treat me like a fellow human”: how young adults who blog about self-harm describe positive encounters with health care workers	0
Are young leaders more sensitive to contextual influences? A lifespan perspective on organizational antecedents of transformational leadership	0
Disclosures and social reactions to sexual violence: factor structure of the social reactions questionnaire shortened and sex differences in Iceland	0
Overspending on smartphone purchases among Swedish young adults	0
Illegitimate tasks in the public sector—associations with work engagement, stress, and turnover intention: the moderating role of leadership	0
Parental reflective functioning in adult outpatients with personality disorders: associations with symptoms of psychopathology and interpersonal problems	0
Psychic structure, unconscious conflict and adolescent psychopathology: The contributions of OPD-CA–2	0
Problems with diagnostic psychiatry and anxiety	0
Trusting behavior and depressive symptoms	0
The importance of feeling remembered during the Covid-19 crisis – A qualitative study of experiences among patients with personality disorders	0
On the same path? Profiles of proximal socialization outcomes among new police officers	0
Self-harm, life satisfaction, transcultural competences, violence, and online memory tests	0
Wanderlust on a warming planet: young adults’ journey towards climate-friendly vacation practices	0
Descriptive social norms and resource cues influence choice by additive and separate effects	0
Transgender and gender non-conforming people’s adaptive coping responses to minority stress: A framework synthesis	0
The User Experience Framework for Health Interventions	0
Parent-child communication about emotions during SIBS: a joint intervention for siblings and parents of children with chronic disorders	0
Self-administered online test of memory functions	0
Attachment and socialized religion within the Læstadian revival movement	0
Anxiety, trust, leadership, communication and stress	0
The happiest youth in the world? Exploring subjective well-being indicators among Finnish university students	0
Burnout, stress, and empathy	0
Level of identity diffusion in patients with borderline, narcissistic, avoidant and other specified personality disorder	0
Rehabilitation professionals’ perspectives on rehabilitation psychology in neurorehabilitation	0
A pilot study of a deliberate practice intervention for therapist trainees	0
Happiness, concussion, user experience, socialization and ADHD	0
Protective factors against school burnout symptoms in Finnish adolescents	0
Psychometric properties of the Social Anxiety Scale (SAS) using psychophysical and categorical scaling	0
Dialogue as psychological method – a study of training interviewing and communication skills in psychology students	0
Preschool children’s coping and caregiver support in families with maternal substance misuse: A qualitative study	0
Problems of diagnostic psychiatry—and the search for a way forward	0
Convergent validity of methods for assessing socially desirable responding in personality items	0