Jacqueline V. Lerner

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Campion Hall
Room 239C

617.552.2648

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Child development within the school and home contexts; temperament; maternal employment and day care influences on child development; early adolescent transitions; life-span development.

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Books

Lerner, R.M., & Lerner, J.V. (Eds.). (1999).  Theoretical foundations and biological bases of development in adolescence.  New York:  Garland.

Lerner, J.V. (1994). Working women and their families. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Lerner, J. V., & Galambos, N. L. (Eds.). (1991). Employed mothers and their children. New York: Garland.

Lerner, J. V., & Lerner, R. M. (Eds.). (1989). Longitudinal analyses of biological, psychological, and social interactions across the transitions of early adolescence. Special Issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Chapters

Lerner, J.V., & Ashman, O. (2005).  Culture and lifespan development.  In K. Thies and J. Travers (Eds). The Handbook of Human Development for Health Professionals.  Thorofare, NJ: SLACK, Inc.

Lerner, J.V. (1996). The contextual history of my research on adolescent temperament. In M. Merrens & G. Brannigan (Eds.). The Developmental Psychologists. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Lerner, J.V., & Abrams, L.A. (1994). Developmental correlates of maternal employment influences on children. In C. Fisher & R. Lerner (Eds.), Applied Developmental Psychology, New York: McGraw Hill.

Lerner, J. V. (1993). The influence of child temperamental characteristics on parent behaviors. In T. Luster & L. Okagaki (Eds.), Parenting: An Ecological Perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lerner, R. M., & Lerner, J. V. (1989). Organismic and social contextual bases of development: The sample case of adolescence. In W. Damon (Ed.), Child development today and tomorrow (pp. 69-85). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Articles

Jelicic, H., Bobek, D., Phelps, E.D., Lerner, J.V.,  Lerner, R.M. (In press).  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.

Paus, T., Toro, R., Leonard, G., Lerner, R.M., Lerner, J.V., Perron, M., Pike, G.B., Steinberg, L., Veillette, S., & Pausova, Z., (In press.) Morphological properties of the action-observation cortical network in adolescents with low and high resistance to peer influence.  Human Brain Mapping.

Paus, T., Pausova, Z., Abrahamowicz, m., Almerigi, J.,  Arbour, N., Bernard, M., Gaudet, D., Hanzalek, P., Hamet, P., Evans, A.C., Kramer, M., Laberge, L., Leal, S., Leonard, G., Lerner, J.V., Lerner, R.M., Mathieu, J., Perron, M., Pike, B., Pitiot., A., Richer, L., Sequin, J.R., syme, C., Toro, R., Tremblay, R.E., Veillette, S., Watkins, K. (In press).  Genes, Maternal Smoking and the Offspring Brain and Body during Adolescence:  The Saguenay Youth Study.  Human Brain Mapping.

Toro, R., Leonard, G., Lerner, J.V., Lerner, R.M., Perron, M., Pike, B.G., Richer, L., Veillette, S., Pausova, Z., & Paus, T. (In press). Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking and the adolescent crebral cortex.  Neuropsychopharmocology, 1-9.

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

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 Positive Youth Development.  Child and Adolescent Clinics of North America, 16(2), 473-496.

Theokas, C., Lerner, J.v., Lerner, R.M. & Phelps, E. (2006).  Cacophony and change in youth after school activities:  Implications for development and practice from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development.  Journal of Youth Development: Bridging Research and Practice, 1(1), http://www.nae4ha.org/directory/jyd/jyd_article.aspx?
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Lerner, R.M., Lerner, J.V., Almerigi, J., & Theokas, C. (2005). Positive youthe development: A view of the issues.  Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 17-71.

Kossek, E.E., Huber, Melissa S.G & Lerner, J.V. (2003).  Sustaining work force inclusion and well-being of mothers on public assistance:  Individual deficit and social ecology perspectives. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62 (1), 155-175. 

Lerner, R.M. & Lerner,J.V. (2001).  The transition to young adulthood.  In J.V. Lerner & R.M. Lerner (Eds.) Adolescence in America: An Encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO.

Juang,L., Lerner, J.V., McKinney, J., & von Eye, A. (1999).  The goodness-of-fit in autonomy timetable expectations between Asian-American late adolescents and their parents.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 1023-1048.

von Eye, A., lerner, J.V., & Lerner, R.M. (1998). Testing theoretically-motivated developmental hypotheses:  The sample case of modeling recprocal relations at the level of manifest categorical variables.  Revista Multiciencia, 3, 22-51.

Kossek, E.E., Huber-Yoder, M., Castellino, D., & Lerner, J.V. (1997). The Working Poor: Locked out of careers and the organizational mainstream. Academy of Management Special Issue -Careers in the twenty-first century, 11, 75-90.

Lerner, J. V., & Lerner, R. M. (1989). Introduction: Longitudinal analyses of biological, psychological, and social interactions across the transitions of early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 9, 175-180.

Nitz, K., Lerner, R. M., & Lerner, J. V., & Talwar, R. (1988). Parental and peer demands, temperament, and early adolescent adjustment. Journal of Early Adolescence, 8, 243-263.

Lerner, R. M., & Lerner, J. V. (1988). Commentary on R. Sternberg's mental self-government: A theory of intellectual styles and their development. Human Development, 31, 222-224.

Galambos, N. L., & Lerner, J. V. (1987). Child characteristics and the employment of mothers with young children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 28, 87-98.

Lerner, J. V., & Galambos, N. L. (1985). Maternal role satisfaction, mother-child interaction, and child temperament. Developmental Psychology, 21, 1157-1164.

Lerner, J. V. (1984). The import of temperament for psychosocial functioning: Tests of a "goodness of fit" model. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 30, 177-188.

Lerner, J. V., & Vicary, J. R. (1984). Difficult temperament and drug use: Analyses from the New York Longitudinal Study. Journal of Drug Education, 14, 1-8.

Lerner, J. V. (1983). A "goodness of fit" model of the role of temperament in psychosocial adaptation in early adolescents. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 143, 149-157.