Publications

My full publication record is available on Google Scholar and ORCID. Google Scholar currently lists 9,992 citations, an h-index of 46, and an i10-index of 77.

Recent Publications

2026 - Student engagement declines across adolescence: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Review of Education. DOI: 10.1002/rev3.70134.
2026 - Investigating the effects of class average achievement: attending a high-achieving class is neither beneficial for student achievement nor for academic self-concept. Contemporary Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102441.
2026 - Mapping the intellectual landscape of educational psychology: Citation rankings and network structures of 60 journals, scholars, and institutions. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102816.
2026 - Predictive modelling of Australian school principals’ turnover intentions using machine learning with random effects. Discover Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09838-1.
2026 - Shaping the socio-emotional landscape: Advances, mechanisms, and contexts in learning and individual differences. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102844.
2025 - Basic Psychological Needs Under Constrained Autonomy: A Substantive–Methodological Reflection and Analysis of School Leaders’ Needs from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10079-3.
2025 - Implicit measure of growth mindset: reducing social desirability bias and linking to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11218-025-10125-6.
2025 - A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x251370677.
2025 - The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10059-7.
2025 - How does university students’ academic major (STEM vs. non-STEM) affect their acceptance of e-learning: a multi-group analysis. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1186/s41239-025-00543-z.
2025 - Which social-emotional skills are most important for students’ learning and well-being? An international comparison among China, USA and Finland. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102703.
2025 - Emotionally and Cognitively Drained: Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Parental Burnout From Between- and Within-Person Perspectives. Stress and Health. DOI: 10.1002/smi.70053.
2025 - Towards Better Social and Emotional Learning: The Way Forward. Advancing Inclusive and Special Education in the Asia-Pacific. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-5202-0_16.
2024 - Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102547.
2024 - Applying machine learning to understand the role of social–emotional skills on subjective well-being and physical health. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12624.
2024 - Gritty Parenting: The Development and Validation of the Parental Grit Scale. Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/10731911241289242.
2024 - Cracking chicken-egg conundrums: Juxtaposing contemporaneous and lagged reciprocal effects models of academic self-concept and achievement’s directional ordering. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09887-w.
2024 - Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09872-3.

Highly Cited Work on Google Scholar

Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review 57, 100912, 2020. 798 citations.
The murky distinction between self-concept and self-efficacy: Beware of lurking jingle-jangle fallacies. Journal of educational psychology 111 (2), 331, 2019. 699 citations.
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and set-ESEM: Optimal balance between goodness of fit and parsimony. Multivariate behavioral research 55 (1), 102-119, 2020. 574 citations.
Building grit: The longitudinal pathways between mindset, commitment, grit, and academic outcomes. Journal of youth and adolescence 48 (5), 850-863, 2019. 503 citations.
Achievement, Motivation, and Educational Choices: A Longitudinal Study of Expectancy and Value Using a Multiplicative Perspective. Developmental Psychology 51 (8), 1163–1176, 2015. 484 citations.
Parental ethnic–racial socialization practices and the construction of children of color’s ethnic–racial identity: A research synthesis and meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin 145 (5), 437, 2019. 424 citations.
Parental ethnic-racial socialization practices and children of color’s psychosocial and behavioral adjustment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Psychologist 75 (1), 1, 2020. 413 citations.
Job satisfaction of teachers and their principals in relation to climate and student achievement. Journal of educational psychology 112 (5), 1061, 2020. 369 citations.
Expectancy-value in mathematics, gender and socioeconomic background as predictors of achievement and aspirations: A multi-cohort study. Learning and individual differences 37, 161-168, 2015. 367 citations.
An integrated model of academic self-concept development: Academic self-concept, grades, test scores, and tracking over 6 years. Developmental psychology 54 (2), 263, 2018. 362 citations.
What to do When Scalar Invariance Fails: The Extended Alignment Method for Multi-Group Factor Analysis Comparison of Latent Means Across Many Groups. Psychological Methods 21 (4), 1-22, 2017. 362 citations.
Mindfulness and its association with varied types of motivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis using self-determination theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 46 (7), 1121-1138, 2020. 288 citations.
Extending expectancy-value theory predictions of achievement and aspirations in science: Dimensional comparison processes and expectancy-by-value interactions. Learning and Instruction 49, 81-91, 2017. 248 citations.
Directionality of the Associations of High School Expectancy-Value, Aspirations, and Attainment A Longitudinal Study. American Educational Research Journal 52 (2), 371-402, 2015. 239 citations.
Probing the Unique Contributions of Self-Concept, Task Values, and Their Interactions Using Multiple Value Facets and Multiple Academic Outcomes. AERA Open 2 (1), 1-20, 2016. 216 citations.

All Publications

This list is generated from ORCID and contains 95 unique works currently indexed there.

2026

2026 - Student engagement declines across adolescence: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Review of Education. DOI: 10.1002/rev3.70134.
2026 - Investigating the effects of class average achievement: attending a high-achieving class is neither beneficial for student achievement nor for academic self-concept. Contemporary Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102441.
2026 - Mapping the intellectual landscape of educational psychology: Citation rankings and network structures of 60 journals, scholars, and institutions. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102816.
2026 - Predictive modelling of Australian school principals’ turnover intentions using machine learning with random effects. Discover Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09838-1.
2026 - Shaping the socio-emotional landscape: Advances, mechanisms, and contexts in learning and individual differences. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102844.

2025

2025 - Basic Psychological Needs Under Constrained Autonomy: A Substantive–Methodological Reflection and Analysis of School Leaders’ Needs from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10079-3.
2025 - Implicit measure of growth mindset: reducing social desirability bias and linking to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11218-025-10125-6.
2025 - A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x251370677.
2025 - The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10059-7.
2025 - How does university students’ academic major (STEM vs. non-STEM) affect their acceptance of e-learning: a multi-group analysis. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1186/s41239-025-00543-z.
2025 - Which social-emotional skills are most important for students’ learning and well-being? An international comparison among China, USA and Finland. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102703.
2025 - Emotionally and Cognitively Drained: Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Parental Burnout From Between- and Within-Person Perspectives. Stress and Health. DOI: 10.1002/smi.70053.
2025 - Towards Better Social and Emotional Learning: The Way Forward. Advancing Inclusive and Special Education in the Asia-Pacific. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-5202-0_16.

2024

2024 - Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102547.
2024 - Applying machine learning to understand the role of social–emotional skills on subjective well-being and physical health. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12624.
2024 - Gritty Parenting: The Development and Validation of the Parental Grit Scale. Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/10731911241289242.
2024 - Cracking chicken-egg conundrums: Juxtaposing contemporaneous and lagged reciprocal effects models of academic self-concept and achievement’s directional ordering. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09887-w.
2024 - Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09872-3.
2024 - Do intercultural education and attitudes promote student wellbeing and social outcomes? An examination across PISA countries. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101879.

2023

2023 - Peer Spillover and Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effects with SIMS80: Revisiting a Historical Database Through the Lens of a Modern Methodological Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09816-3.
2023 - Is social media use for math learning beneficial for ethnic minority students’ math identity? A socialization perspective. British Journal of Educational Technology. DOI: 10.1111/bjet.13359.
2023 - Overcoming limitations in peer-victimization research that impede successful intervention: challenges and new directions. Perspectives on Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1177/17456916221112919.
2023 - The bifactor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale: Bayesian approaches to overcome exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) limitations. Psychological Assessment. DOI: 10.1037/pas0001247.
2023 - Disentangling the long-term compositional effects of school-average achievement and SES: A substantive-methodological synergy. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09726-4.
2023 - Peer victimization: An integrative review and cross-national test of a tripartite model. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09765-x.
2023 - Too Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: the Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09768-8.
2023 - The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect for reading self-beliefs: A cross-national exploration with PISA 2018. Scientific Studies of Reading. DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2023.2174028.
2023 - The Happy-Fish-Little-Pond Effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101733.
2023 - Longitudinal reciprocal effects of agentic engagement and autonomy support: Between- and within-person perspectives. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000815.

2022

2022 - A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students’ performance. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2022.102228.
2022 - School principals’ mental health and well-being under threat: A longitudinal analysis of workplace demands, resources, burnout, and well-being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12423.
2022 - Connected or cutoff? A 4-Year longitudinal study of the links between adolescents’ compulsive internet use and social support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/01461672221127802.
2022 - The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/01461672221125619.
2022 - Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000436.
2022 - School autonomy policies lead to increases in principal autonomy and job satisfaction. International Journal of Educational Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102048.
2022 - The roles of social–emotional skills in students’ academic and life success: A multi-informant and multicohort perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000426.
2022 - School belonging predicts whether an emerging adult will be not in education, employment, or training (NEET) after school. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000733.
2022 - Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous boarders’ and non-boarders’ wellbeing. British Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3792.
2022 - Academic self-concept: A key construct for positive psychology. DOI: 10.4324/9781003013778-15.
2022 - The Dimensionality of Reading Self-Concept: Examining Its Stability Using Local Structural Equation Models. Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/10731911211069675.

2021

2021 - Revealing dynamic relations between mathematics self-concept and perceived achievement from lesson to lesson: An experience-sampling study. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000716.
2021 - Ubiquitous emotional exhaustion in school principals: Stable trait, enduring autoregressive trend, or occasion-specific state?. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000582.
2021 - Which class matters? Juxtaposing multiple class environments as frames-of-reference for academic self-concept formation. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000491.
2021 - The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101539.
2021 - High school students’ tenacity and flexibility in goal pursuit linked to life satisfaction and achievement on competencies tests. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000667.
2021 - Relations of epistemic beliefs with motivation, achievement, and aspirations in science: Generalizability across 72 societies. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000660.
2021 - Burning passion, burning out: The passionate school principal, burnout, job satisfaction, and extending the dualistic model of passion. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000664.
2021 - Moderation of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Juxtaposition of Evolutionary (Darwinian-Economic) and Achievement Motivation Theory Predictions Based on a Delphi Approach. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-020-09583-5.
2021 - Ability Stratification Predicts the Size of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x20986176.
2021 - Academic self-concept formation: A three-faceted model of psychological comparison (3FPC) Processes. Oxford Handbook of Educational Psychology.

2020

2020 - Academic self-concept formation and peer-group contagion: Development of the big-fish-little-pond effect in primary-school classrooms and peer groups. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000554.
2020 - The Role of Sociocultural Factors in Student Achievement Motivation: A Cross-Cultural Review. Adolescent Research Review. DOI: 10.1007/s40894-019-00124-y.
2020 - A critical social justice issue of our time: Enabling police wellbeing. DOI: 10.4324/9781003028918-7.
2020 - Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2020.100912.
2020 - Job satisfaction of teachers and their principals in relation to climate and student achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000409.
2020 - Mindfulness and Its Association With Varied Types of Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using Self-Determination Theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/0146167219896136.
2020 - Illusory gender-equality paradox, math self-concept, and frame-of-reference Effect: New integrative explanations for multiple paradoxes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000306.
2020 - Illusory gender-equality paradox, math self-concept, and frame-of-reference effects: New integrative explanations for multiple paradoxes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000306.
2020 - Psychological Comparison Processes and Self–Concept in Relation to Five Distinct Frame–Of–Reference Effects: Pan–Human Cross–Cultural Generalizability over 68 Countries. European Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1002/per.2232.
2020 - Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM), and Set-ESEM: Optimal Balance Between Goodness of Fit and Parsimony. Multivariate Behavioral Research. DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2019.1602503.
2020 - Parental ethnic-racial socialization practices and children of color’s psychosocial and behavioral adjustment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Psychologist. DOI: 10.1037/amp0000464.

2019

2019 - Young Women Face Disadvantage to Enrollment in University STEM Coursework Regardless of Prior Achievement and Attitudes. American Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.3102/0002831218824111.
2019 - A Systematic Evaluation and Comparison Between Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling and Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1554999.
2019 - In-the-Moment Profiles of Expectancies, Task Values, and Costs. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01662.
2019 - The Relations of Science Task Values, Self-Concept of Ability, and STEM Aspirations Among Finnish Students From First to Second Grade. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01449.
2019 - Building Grit: The Longitudinal Pathways between Mindset, Commitment, Grit, and Academic Outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-019-00998-0.
2019 - Parental ethnic–racial socialization practices and the construction of children of color’s ethnic–racial identity: A research synthesis and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin. DOI: 10.1037/bul0000187.
2019 - Capturing the multiplicative effect of perseverance and passion: Measurement issues of combining two grit facets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820125116.
2019 - Countries, parental occupation, and girls’ interest in science. The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30210-7.
2019 - Socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes in Australia. Socioeconomic Inequality and Student Outcomes.
2019 - The Meaning of Motivation to Learn in Cross- National Comparisons: A Review of Recent. The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education.

2018

2018 - What to do when scalar invariance fails: The extended alignment method for multi-group factor analysis comparison of latent means across many groups. Psychological Methods. DOI: 10.1037/met0000113.
2018 - Academic self-concept formation: A three-faceted model of psychological comparison processes. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841332.013.37.
2018 - A worthy self is a caring self: Examining the developmental relations between self-esteem and self-compassion in adolescents. Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12340.
2018 - An information distortion model of social class differences in math self-concept, intrinsic value, and utility value. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000215.
2018 - An integrated model of academic self-concept development: Academic self-concept, grades, test scores, and tracking over 6 years. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000393.
2018 - Cross-cultural generalizability of social and dimensional comparison effects on reading, math, and science self-concepts for primary school students using the combined PIRLS and TIMSS data. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.07.007.
2018 - Effects of school-average achievement on individual self-concept and achievement: Unmasking phantom effects masquerading as true compositional effects. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000259.
2018 - Gendered pathways toward STEM careers: The incremental roles of work value profiles above academic task values. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01111.
2018 - Inequity and Excellence in Academic Performance: Evidence From 27 Countries. American Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.3102/0002831218760213.
2018 - Joint trajectories of task value in multiple subject domains: From both variable- and pattern-centered perspectives. Contemporary Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2018.10.004.
2018 - Testing Syndromes of Psychopathology in Parent and Youth Ratings Across Societies. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2017.1405352.
2018 - The Murky Distinction Between Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: Beware of Lurking Jingle-Jangle Fallacies. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000281.
2018 - Validating the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ-II) using set-ESEM: Identifying psychosocial risk factors in a sample of school principals. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00584.

2017

2017 - Cognitive Defusion Predicts More Approach and Less Avoidance Coping With Stress, Independent of Threat and Self-Efficacy Appraisals. Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12279.
2017 - Extending expectancy-value theory predictions of achievement and aspirations in science: Dimensional comparison processes and expectancy-by-value interactions. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.12.007.
2017 - How well do parents know their adolescent children? Parent inferences of student self-concepts reflect dimensional comparison processes. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.09.002.
2017 - Long-term positive effects of repeating a year in school: Six-year longitudinal study of self-beliefs, anxiety, social relations, school grades, and test scores. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000144.

2016

2016 - The relations among academic motivation, self-concept, aspirations and choices: Integrating expectancy-value and academic self-concept theory. DOI: 10.4226/66/5a9cc030b0ba5.
2016 - Probing the Unique Contributions of Self-Concept, Task Values, and Their Interactions Using Multiple Value Facets and Multiple Academic Outcomes. AERA Open. DOI: 10.1177/2332858415626884.
2016 - Breaking the double-edged sword of effort/trying hard: Developmental equilibrium and longitudinal relations among effort, achievement, and academic self-concept. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000146.
2016 - Temporal ordering effects of adolescent depression, relational aggression, and victimization over six waves: Fully latent reciprocal effects models. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000241.

2015

2015 - Achievement, motivation, and educational choices: A longitudinal study of expectancy and value using a multiplicative perspective. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0039440.
2015 - Directionality of the Associations of High School Expectancy-Value, Aspirations, and Attainment: A Longitudinal Study. American Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.3102/0002831214565786.
2015 - Expectancy-value in mathematics, gender and socioeconomic background as predictors of achievement and aspirations: A multi-cohort study. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.01.008.

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