Multifaceted Research Trends on Parenting in Emerging Adulthood: A Bibliometric Review

The transitional nature of emerging adulthood has led to increase research on parenting during the third decade of life. This article principally presents the research trends and themes of parenting in the emerging adulthood field. A total of 2,088 articles on parenting in emerging adulthood were collected from the Web of Science (WoS) during the period 2000–2024, and a bibliometric approach was used. The findings demonstrate that the number of publications has increased since the year 2000; however, the growth has not been systematic, reflecting the diversity of academic disciplines. Furthermore, the study identifies five prominent thematic clusters and demonstrates the rich thematic diversity of parenting research in emerging adulthood, showing that certain topics have diminished, while others have emerged as potential areas of interest. Future studies will help to explore the research on parenting in adolescents, youth, and young adults too.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Emerging Adulthood

• Publication date

  2025-11-11

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/21676968251395340
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Parenting in Overdrive: A Meta-analysis of Helicopter Parenting Across Multiple Indices of Emerging Adult Functioning

  2024influential reference
• Comparative science mapping: a novel conceptual structure analysis with metadata

  2024cited by this paper
• Planning for Parenthood: Using Sociodemographic Characteristics to Predict Expectations for the Timing and Number of Children Among Emerging Adults

  2024cited by this paper
• Evolution and Research Trends About Emerging Adulthood: A Bibliometric Analysis

  2023cited by this paper
• A bibliometric analysis of emerging adulthood in the context of higher education institutions: A psychological perspectives

  2023cited by this paper
• Overparenting and Emerging Adult Development: A Systematic Review

  2022influential reference
• A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

  2022cited by this paper
• How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines

  2021influential reference
• Publication outperformance among global South researchers: An analysis of individual-level and publication-level predictors of positive deviance

  2021cited by this paper
• The Relationship Between Helicopter Parenting and Fear of Negative Evaluation in College Students

  2021cited by this paper
• Overparenting and Emerging Adults’ Insecure Attachment With Parents and Romantic Partners

  2021cited by this paper
• Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge

  2020cited by this paper
• A Scientometrics Review on Land Ecosystem Service Research

  2020cited by this paper
• Narrative Identity

  2020cited by this paper
• The neglected 95% revisited: Is American psychology becoming less American?

  2020cited by this paper
• Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood Member Spotlight

  2020cited by this paper
• Longitudinal Predictors of Helicopter Parenting in Emerging Adulthood

  2020cited by this paper
• Profiles of Helicopter Parenting, Parental Warmth, and Psychological Control During Emerging Adulthood

  2019cited by this paper
• Emerging adult psychological problems and parenting style: Moderation by parent-child relationship quality

  2019cited by this paper
• The Relationship Between Parenting and Anxiety in Emerging Adulthood

  2019cited by this paper
• The Effects of Maternal and Paternal Helicopter Parenting on the Self-determination and Well-being of Emerging Adults

  2019cited by this paper
• Helicopter Parenting, Self-regulatory Processes, and Alcohol Use among Female College Students

  2019cited by this paper
• Parenting Emerging Adults

  2019influential reference
• Fostering social and emotional intelligence: What are the best current strategies in parenting?

  2019cited by this paper
• Cognitive-Affective Pathways to Child Depressive and Anxious Symptoms: Role of Children’s Discipline Attributions

  2018cited by this paper
• A Content Analysis of the Methods Used to Study Emerging Adults in Six Developmental Journals From 2013 to 2015

  2018cited by this paper
• Dimensionality of Helicopter Parenting and Relations to Emotional, Decision-Making, and Academic Functioning in Emerging Adults

  2018cited by this paper
• Implications of Parent–Child Relationships for Emerging Adults’ Subjective Feelings About Adulthood

  2017cited by this paper
• Associations of Parenting Dimensions and Styles With Externalizing Problems of Children and Adolescents: An Updated Meta-Analysis

  2017cited by this paper
• The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on Academic Motivation

  2017cited by this paper
• Trends in Literature About Emerging Adulthood

  2016influential reference
• Turning Point for a Turning Point

  2016cited by this paper
• Parenting styles and emerging adult drug use in Cebu, the Philippines

  2016cited by this paper
• Directions of effects between self-criticism and parental support on adaptive goal pursuit among emerging adults

  2016cited by this paper
• Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adult Self-Efficacy: Implications for Mental and Physical Health

  2016cited by this paper
• L’évolution mondiale des réseaux de collaborations scientifiques entre villes : des échelles multiples

  2016influential reference
• Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

  2015cited by this paper
• Autonomy and Relatedness in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Relationships with Parental Support and Psychological Distress

  2015cited by this paper
• Is Hovering Smothering or Loving? An Examination of Parental Warmth as a Moderator of Relations Between Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Indices of Adjustment

  2015cited by this paper
• The new life stage of emerging adulthood at ages 18-29 years: implications for mental health.

  2014cited by this paper
• “Doesn’t Everyone Want That? It’s Just a Given”

  2014cited by this paper
• “Because I’m still the parent, that’s why!” Parental legitimate authority during emerging adulthood

  2014cited by this paper
• Race, Ethnicity, and Emerging Adulthood

  2013cited by this paper
• Gender Differences in the Relationships Among Parenting Styles and College Student Mental Health

  2012cited by this paper
• Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids: Intense Parental Support of Grown Children.

  2012cited by this paper
• Black hawk down?: Establishing helicopter parenting as a distinct construct from other forms of parental control during emerging adulthood

  2012cited by this paper
• SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool

  2012cited by this paper
• Parenting in Emerging Adulthood: An Examination of Parenting Clusters and Correlates

  2011influential reference
• Growing up in the Shadows: The Developmental Implications of Unauthorized Status.

  2011cited by this paper
• The Role of Mothers and Media on Emerging Adults’ Religious Faith and Practices by Way of Internalization of Prosocial Values

  2011cited by this paper
• DOES “HOVERING” MATTER? HELICOPTER PARENTING AND ITS EFFECT ON WELL-BEING

  2011cited by this paper
• Parenting practices and their relation to anxiety in young adulthood.

  2010cited by this paper
• Financial Socialization of First-year College Students: The Roles of Parents, Work, and Education

  2010cited by this paper
• Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping

  2009influential reference
• The neglected 95%: why American psychology needs to become less American.

  2008cited by this paper
• The Impact of Maternal Relationship Quality on Emerging Adults’ Prosocial Tendencies: Indirect Effects via Regulation of Prosocial Values

  2008cited by this paper
• Depression

  2007cited by this paper
• Parental psychological control and dimensions of identity formation in emerging adulthood.

  2007cited by this paper
• Parenting Practices in Emerging Adulthood: Development of a New Measure

  2006cited by this paper
• VOS: A New Method for Visualizing Similarities Between Objects

  2006cited by this paper
• A New Era in Citation and Bibliometric Analyses: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar

  2006cited by this paper
• Depression, self-esteem, and anger in emerging adulthood: seven-year trajectories.

  2006cited by this paper
• Increases in alcohol and marijuana use during the transition out of high school into emerging adulthood: The effects of leaving home, going to college, and high school protective factors.

  2006cited by this paper
• Life's little (and big) lessons: identity statuses and meaning-making in the turning point narratives of emerging adults.

  2006cited by this paper
• Bibliometric methods: pitfalls and possibilities.

  2005cited by this paper
• Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties

  2004cited by this paper
• Pathways to self-esteem in late adolescence: the role of parent and peer attachment, empathy, and social behaviours.

  2004cited by this paper
• Resources and resilience in the transition to adulthood: Continuity and change

  2004cited by this paper
• Binge drinking trajectories from adolescence to emerging adulthood in a high-risk sample: predictors and substance abuse outcomes.

  2002cited by this paper
• Conceptions of the Transition to Adulthood: Perspectives From Adolescence Through Midlife

  2001cited by this paper
• Emerging adulthood. A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties.

  2000influential reference
• High Hopes in a Grim World

  2000influential reference
• Lotka's Law and Institutional Productivity

  1998cited by this paper
• From Adolescent to Young Adult: A Prospective Study of Parent-Child Relations during the Transition to Adulthood

  1997cited by this paper

• No citing papers are available for this paper.