Publications

Journal Articles

• Özcan, M. Ş., & Kisbu, Y. (2025). Exposure to interactive media, but at low levels, is associated with better executive functioning in children: A meta-analysis. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2025.2471583
• Oksuz, I., Özcan, M. Ş., Dost-Gözkan, A., & Kisbu, Y. (in press). Health risk behaviors of adolescents in Europe: A latent profile analysis of HBSC data from 43 countries. Journal of Adolescent Health.
• Özcan, M. Ş., Goksun, T., & Kisbu Sakarya, Y. (2024). The impact of learning to code on higher-order executive functions: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2024.2381231
• Kisbu, Y., Özcan, M. Ş., Kuşcul, G. H., Bozok, M., Kaya, M., & Fişek, G. (2023). Fathering styles in a traditional culture and its association with marital relationship: A latent profile analysis with a nationally representative sample. Family Process. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12948
• Akcaoglu, M., Özcan, M. Ş., & Hodges, C. B. (2023). Exploring the relationship among motivational constructs and preservice teachers’ use of computational thinking in classrooms. Computers in the Schools. https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2023.2172987
• Akcaoglu, M., Ozcan, M. Ş., & Dogan, S. (2023). What keeps teachers engaged during professional development? The role of interest development. Education Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13020188
• Özcan, M. Ş., Çetinkaya, E., Goksun, T., & Kisbu Sakarya, Y. (2021). Does learning to code influence cognitive skills of elementary school children? Findings from a randomized experiment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 1434-1455. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12429

Manuscripts Under Review

• Özcan, M. Ş., Hong, Y., & Choi, K. (under review). Early media use predicts later executive function difficulties through problematic media use: a cross-lagged panel model in middle childhood with an early childhood media use predictor. Media Psychology .
• Özcan, M. Ş., & Akcaoglu, M. (under review). Development and validation of the multidimensional interest development survey (MIS): An interest survey measuring phases and components. Instructional Science.
• Sabuncuoglu, A., Özcan, M. Ş., Kisbu, Y., & Sezgin, M. (under review). Developing an open-source middle school programming environment and its curriculum for an affordable education. British Journal of Educational Technology.
• Rajadhyaksha, U., Aycan, Z., Rantanen, J., Feldt, T., Cinli, D., Özcan, M. Ş., & Baskurt, A. B. (under review). Work-family interface during COVID-19: Gender and gender role ideology perspectives. Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Özcan, M. Ş., Lee, Y., & Choi, K. (in preparation). The associations between problematic media use and executive functions in middle childhood: A cross-lagged panel model.
• Beers, C., Yu, S., Özcan, M. Ş., Smith, C. L., & Choi, K. (in preparation). Understanding media guilt among mothers of young children.
• Gürdal, M.S., Özcan, M. Ş. (co-first author), Smith, C., & Choi, K. Screen time and emotion regulation in young children: a meta-analytic review.