Faculty Directory
Jacqueline V. Lerner
Program Director, Applied Psychology and Human Development, B.A.
Professor
Jacqueline V. Lerner
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 239C
Telephone: 617-552-2648
Email: jacqueline.lerner@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0003-4637-8538
Education
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
Character and Positive Youth development in adolescents and young adults; Positive Youth Development in out-of-school-time settings
Expertise
- Formative and Whole Person Education
- Health and Well Being
- Social & Emotional Development
Department
Select Publications
- Hay, S. Tirrell, J. M., Lerner, J. V., Dowling, E. M., Sim, A. T. R., King, P. E., Vaughn, J. M., Iraheta, G., & Lerner, R. M. (in press). “We are protected.” Examining youth perceptions of safety within a faith-based positive youth development program in El Salvador." Journal of Youth Development.
- Sim, A., Dowling, E. M. Tirrell, J. M., Lerner. J. V., & Williams, K. (2024) International Faith Based Organizations: Integrating Science and Ideology. In Matthews, M. D. & Lerner, R. M. (Eds.). Volume 2. The Routledge international handbook of multidisciplinary perspectives on character development., Routledge.
- Hay, S. W., Lerner, J. V., Lerner, R. M., Tirrell, J. M., & Dowling, E. M. (2024). Spirituality as a Key Asset in Promoting Positive Youth Development: Advances in Research and Practice. Archives for the Psychology of Religion. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00846724241235187
- Tirrell, J. M., Dowling, E. M., Kibbedi, P., Namurinda, E., Iraheta, G., Dennis, J., Malvese, K., Abbasi-Asl, R., Williams, K., Lerner, J. V., King, P. E., Sim, A. T. R., & Lerner, R. M. (2023). Being known and loved and positive youth development: Cross-national findings from Rwanda and El Salvador. Child & Youth Care Forum, 52, 1093-1119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6
- Le, T. U., Johnson, S. K., & Lerner, J.V. (2022) Exploring moderators of the relationship between adolescents’ social responsibility and civic actions. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, DOI:10.1002/casp.2618.
- King, P. E., Vaughn, J., Yoo, Y., Tirrell, J., Dowling, E., Lerner, R., Geldhof, J., Lerner, J.V., Irehata, G., Williams, K., & Sim, A. (2020) Exploring Religiousness and Hope: Examining the Roles of Spirituality and Social Connections Among Salvadoran Youth. Religions 11, 75; doi:10.3390/rel11020075
- Tirrell, J. M., Dowling, E. M., Gansert, P., Buckingham, M., Wong, C. A., Suzuki, S., Naliaka, C., Kibbedi, P., Namurinda, E., Williams, K., Geldhof, G. J., Lerner, J. V., King, P. E., Sim, A. T. R., & Lerner, R. M. (2020). Toward a measure for assessing features of effective youth development programs: Contextual safety and the “Big Three” Components of Positive Youth Development programs in Rwanda. Child & Youth Care Forum, 49, 201- 220.doi.org/10.1007/s10566-019-09524-6
- Lerner, J.V., Wong, C., Weiner, M., & Johnson, S. (2020) Profiles of Adolescent Character Attributes: Associations with Intentional Self-Regulation and Character Role Model Relationships. Journal of Moral Education, DOI: 10.1080/03057240.2020.1755242
- Tirrell, J. M., Gansert, P. K., Dowling, E. M., Geldhof, G. J., Lerner, J. V., King, P. E., Iraheta, G., Williams, K., Sim., A.T.R., & Lerner, R. M. (2019). Illuminating the use of the Specificity Principle to go inside the black box of programs: The sample case of an El Salvador PYD program. In S. Verma, A. Petersen, & J. Lansford (Eds.), Sustainable human development: Challenges and solutions for implementing the United Nations’ Goals [Special issue]: Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 227(2), 121-128
- Tirrell, J. M., Geldhof, G. J., King, P. E., Dowling, E., Sim, A., Williams, K., Iraheta, G., Lerner, J. V., & Lerner, R. M. (2019). Measuring spirituality, hope, and thriving among El Salvadoran youth: Initial findings from the Compassion International Study of Positive Youth Development. Child & Youth Care Forum 48, 241-268 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-018-9454-1
- Lerner, R. M., Tirrell, J. M., Dowling, E. M., Geldhof, J., Gestsdóttir, S., Lerner, J. V., King, P. E., Williams, K., & Sim, A. T. R. (2019). The end of the beginning: Evidence and absences studying PYD in a global context. Adolescent Research Review. Volume 4, Issue 1, pps 1-14. doi.org/10.1007/s40894-018-0093-4
- Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., & Chase, P. A. (2019). Towards enhancing the role of idiographic-based analyses in describing, explaining, and optimizing the study of human development: The sample case of adolescentfamily relationships. Journal of Family Theory & Review. DOI:10.1111/jftr.12347.
- King, P. E., Yoo, Y., Vaughn, J. M., Tirrell, J. M., Geldhof, G. J., Iraheta, G., Williams, K., Sim, A., Stephenson, P., Dowling, E., Lerner, R. M., & Lerner, J. V. (2019). Evaluating the measure of diverse adolescent spirituality in samples of Mexican and Salvadoran youth. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000279