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Jacqueline V. Lerner

professor counseling, developmental, and educational psychology department

 Jacqueline Lerner

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Campion Hall
Room 239C

617.552.2648

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

    

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Child development within the school and home contexts; temperament; early adolescent transitions; life-span development, positive youth development.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lerner, J.V., Bowers, E.P., Jeliic, H., Li, Y., Theokas, C., von Eye, A., & Lerner, R.M. (In press).  The Five Cs Model of Positive Youth Development:  Measurement invariance across late adolescence.  Journal of Adolescence.

Bowers, E.P., Li, Y., Kiely, M.K., Brittian, A., Lerner, J.V.,  & Lerner, R.M. (2010).  The Five Cs Model of Positive Youth Development:  A longitudinal analysis of confirmatory factor structure and measurement invariance.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(7), 720-735.

Li, Y., Lerner, J.V., & Lerner, R.M. (2010).  Personal and ecological assets and academic competence in early adolescence:  The mediating role of school engagement.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(7), 801-815.

Schwartz, S.J., Phelps, E., Lerner, J.V., Huang, S., Brown, C.H., Lwein-Bizan, S., Li, Y., & Lerner, R.M. (2010).  Promotion as prevention:  Positive Youth Development as protective against tobacco, alcohol, illicit drug, and sex initiation.  Applied Developmental Science, 14(4), 197-211.

Ma, L., Phelps, E., Lerner, J.V., and Lerner, R.M. (2009).  Longitudinal research on school bullying:  Adolescents who bully and who are bullied.  In D. Buchanan, C.B. Fisher, & L. Gable (Eds.).  Ethical & Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Po;ulations:  Addressing Threats of Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence (pp. 93-108). Washington, DC:  APA Books.

Lerner, J.V., Phelps, E., Forman, Y., and Bowers, E.P. (2009).  Positive Youth Development.  In Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, (3rd Edition).  R.M. Lerner and L. Steinberg (Eds.), (pp. 524-558).  New York:  Wiley.

Phelps, E., Balsano, A., Fay, K., Peltz, J., Zimmerman, S., Lerner, R.M., & Lerner, J.V. (2007).  Nuances in early adolescent development trajectories of positive and of problematic / risk behaviors:  Findings from the 4-H Study of Poistive Youth Development.  Child and Adolescent Clinics of North America, 16(2), 473-496.

Partridge, T. & Lerner, J.V.(2007).  A latent growth-curve approach to difficult temperament.  Infant and Child Development, 16, 255-265.

Jelicic, H., Bobek, D., Phelps, E.D., Lerner, J.V., Lerner, R.M.(2007).  Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence:  Findings from the first two waves of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31(3), 263-273.

Lerner, R.M, Lerner, J.V., Almerigi, J., & Theokas, C. (2005).  Positive youth development:  A view of the issues.  Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 10-16.