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. Remondi, C; Gerbino, M; Zuffianò, A; Baiocco, R; Cirimele, F; Thartori, E; Di Giunta, L; Lunetti, C; Favini, A; Bacchini, D; Regalia, C; Lansford, JE; Pastorelli, C (2024). Longitudinal associations between positive parenting and youths’ engagement in sexting behaviors: The mediating role of filial self-efficacy beliefs. Computers in Human Behavior, 158. [doi]  [abs]


2. Rothenberg, WA; Bornstein, MH; Putnick, DL; Lansford, JE (2024). Examining How National Levels of Life Expectancy, Education, and Income Influence Early Childhood Development: The Mediating Role of the Child's Nurturing Context.. Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. [doi]  [abs]


3. Gorla, L; Rothenberg, WA; Lansford, JE; Yotanyamaneewong, S; Alampay, LP; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D; Bornstein, MH; Breiner, K; Chang, L; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Junla, D; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Santona, A; Skinner, AT; Sorbring, E; Steinberg, L; Uribe Tirado, LM (2024). Individualism, collectivism and conformity in nine countries: Relations with parenting and child adjustment.. International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie, 59(4), 598-610. [doi]  [abs]


4. Breiner, K; Lansford, JE; Skinner, AT; Steinberg, L; Bornstein, MH; Deater-Deckard, K; Dodge, KA; Rothenberg, WA (2024). Cultural values, parenting, and child adjustment in the United States.. International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie, 59(4), 588-597. [doi]  [abs]


5. Lansford, JE (2024). Cultural values, parenting and child adjustment: Introduction to the special issue.. International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie, 59(4), 505-511. [doi]  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae