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Sonja Perren publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sonja Perren sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 112 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Sonja Perren D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sonja Perren sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sonja Perren is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with specific attention to education, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, surgery, and sociology and political science as subfields.

The researcher's academic output extensively covers topics related to early childhood education and development, child development and digital technology, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, parental involvement in education, child and animal learning development, child therapy and development, and family and disability support research.

Sonja Perren has published several papers in notable journals, with recent publications including:

  • The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers' social development: Results of an experimental study (2023, Early Childhood Research Quarterly)
  • Promoting Social Pretend Play in Preschool Age: Is Providing Roleplay Material Enough? (2020, Early Education and Development)
  • Assessing Preschool Children's Social Pretend Play Competence: An Empirical Comparison of Three Different Assessment Methods (2020, Early Education and Development)
  • Self-Efficacy in Early Childhood Education and Care: What Predicts Patterns of Stability and Change in Educator Self-Efficacy? (2021, Frontiers in Education)
  • The emergence of dyadic pretend play quality during peer play: The role of child competence, play partner competence and dyadic constellation (2020, Social Development)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sonja Perren include:

  • Ann-Kathrin Jaggy
  • Fabio Sticca
  • Carine Burkhardt Bossi
  • Isabelle Kalkusch
  • Barbara Weiss

Publications have appeared in several venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Early Education and Development
  • International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Frontiers in Education

Sonja Perren's research addresses various dimensions of early childhood and developmental psychology, examining social pretend play, educator self-efficacy, and peer play quality. Their work often investigates the mechanisms by which social and educational environments influence childhood development and learning outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Social behavior and peer relationships of victims, bully‐victims, and bullies in kindergarten

    Sonja Perren;Françoise D. Alsaker

  • Bullying in school and cyberspace: Associations with depressive symptoms in Swiss and Australian adolescents

    Sonja Perren;Julian Dooley;Thérèse Shaw;Donna Cross

  • Is Cyberbullying Worse than Traditional Bullying? Examining the Differential Roles of Medium, Publicity, and Anonymity for the Perceived Severity of Bullying

    Fabio Sticca;Sonja Perren

  • Longitudinal Risk Factors for Cyberbullying in Adolescence

    Fabio Sticca;Sabrina Ruggieri;Françoise Alsaker;Sonja Perren

  • Peer victimisation and depressive symptoms: can specific coping strategies buffer the negative impact of cybervictimisation?

    Katja Machmutow;Sonja Perren;Fabio Sticca;Françoise D. Alsaker

  • Cyberbullying and traditional bullying in adolescence: Differential roles of moral disengagement, moral emotions, and moral values

    Sonja Perren;Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger

  • Bullying in schools and in cyberspace: Associations with depressive symptoms in Swiss and Australian adolescents

    S Perren;J Dooley;T Shaw;D Cross

  • Tackling cyberbullying: Review of empirical evidence regarding successful responses by students, parents and schools

    Sonja Perren;Lucie Corcoran;Helen Cowie;Francine Dehue

  • Dementia caregiving in spousal relationships: a dyadic perspective.

    Melanie Braun;Urte Scholz;Barbara Bailey;Sonja Perren

  • The impact of peer victimization on later maladjustment: mediating and moderating effects of hostile and self‐blaming attributions

    Sonja Perren;Idean Ettekal;Gary Ladd

  • Moral reasoning and emotion attributions of adolescent bullies, victims, and bully‐victims

    Sonja Perren;Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger;Tina Malti;Shelley Hymel

  • Depressive symptoms and psychosocial stress across the transition to parenthood: associations with parental psychopathology and child difficulty.

    Sonja Perren;Agnes von Wyl;Dieter Bürgin;Heidi Simoni

  • Bullying and Delinquency in Adolescence: Victims’ and Perpetrators’ Family and Peer Relations

    Sonja Perren;Rainer Hornung

  • Predicting behavioral intentions and physical exercise: a test of the health action process approach at the intrapersonal level.

    Urte Scholz;Roger Keller;Sonja Perren

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) activity in kindergarten children: importance of gender and associations with behavioral/emotional difficulties.

    Martin Hatzinger;Serge Brand;Sonja Perren;Agnes von Wyl

  • Children's peer victimization, empathy, and emotional symptoms

    Tina Malti;Sonja Perren;Marlis Buchmann

  • Immigrant children's peer acceptance and victimization in kindergarten: The role of local language competence

    Renate von Grünigen;Sonja Perren;Christof Nägele;Françoise D. Alsaker

  • Electroencephalographic sleep profiles and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA)-activity in kindergarten children: early indication of poor sleep quality associated with increased cortisol secretion.

    Martin Hatzinger;Serge Brand;Sonja Perren;Stephanie Stadelmann

  • Associations between behavioral/emotional difficulties in kindergarten children and the quality of their peer relationships.

    Sonja Perren;Agnes von Wyl;Stephanie Stadelmann;Dieter Bürgin

  • Everything's gonna be alright! The longitudinal interplay among social support, peer victimization, and depressive symptoms

    Taniesha Burke;Fabio Sticca;Sonja Perren

  • Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood

    Sonja Perren;Agnes von Wyl;Dieter Bürgin;Heidi Simoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Brand
Serge Brand University of Basel
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler University of Basel
Tina Malti
Tina Malti University of Toronto
Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Helen Cowie
Helen Cowie University of York
Peter J. Clough
Peter J. Clough University of Huddersfield
Markus Gerber
Markus Gerber University of Basel
Shelley Hymel
Shelley Hymel University of British Columbia
Mike Martin
Mike Martin University of Zurich
Donna Cross
Donna Cross Telethon Kids Institute

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