Center for Child & Family Policy | Duke University

Jennifer Lansford

Research Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Child and Family Policy

Jennifer Lansford's research focuses on the development of aggression and other behavior problems in youth, with an emphasis on how family and peer contexts contribute to or protect against these outcomes. She examines how experiences with parents (e.g., physical abuse, discipline, divorce) and peers (e.g., rejection, friendships) affect the development of children's behavior problems, how influence operates in adolescent peer groups, and how cultural contexts moderate links between parents' discipline strategies and children's behavior problems.

Her work at the Center includes the projects Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Intergenerational Transmission of Treatment Effects; and Optimizing Prevention of Costly Adult Outcomes.

Research Interests:
Youth Violence Prevention, Peer Influence, Parenting

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 2000
• M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1997
• B.A. Duke University - 1995

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Buchanan, CM; Glatz, T; Selçuk, Ş; Skinner, AT; Lansford, JE; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Liu, Q; Long, Q; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Sorbring, E; Tapanya, S; Steinberg, L; Tirado, LMU; Yotanyamaneewong, S; Alampay, LP (2024). Developmental Trajectories of Parental Self-Efficacy as Children Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries: Latent Growth Curve Analyses.. Journal of youth and adolescence, 53(5), 1047-1065. [doi]  [abs]


2. Goulter, N; Hur, YS; Jones, DE; Godwin, J; McMahon, RJ; Dodge, KA; Lansford, JE; Lochman, JE; Bates, JE; Pettit, GS; Crowley, DM (2024). Kindergarten conduct problems are associated with monetized outcomes in adolescence and adulthood.. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 65(3), 328-339. [doi]  [abs]


3. Copeland, WE; Tong, G; Shanahan, L; Rothenberg, WA; Lansford, JE; Godwin, JW; Rybińska, A; Odgers, CL; Dodge, KA (2024). Intergenerational Effects of a Family Cash Transfer on the Home Environment.. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 63(3), 336-344. [doi]  [abs]


4. Folker, AE; Deater-Deckard, K; Lansford, JE; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Liu, Q; Long, Q; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Rothenberg, WA; Skinner, AT; Sorbring, E; Steinberg, L; Tapanya, S; Tirado, LMU; Yotanyamaneewong, S; Alampay, LP; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L (2024). Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries.. Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 38(2), 333-344. [doi]  [abs]


5. Rohner, RP; Ali, S; Lansford, JE (2024). Memories of Parental Acceptance and Rejection Predict Forgiveness and Vengeance in the Muslim World: Introduction and Overview.. The Journal of genetic psychology, 185(3), 155-161. [doi]  [abs]

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