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Jennifer E. Lansford

Jennifer E. Lansford

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Psychology

D-Index
81
Citations
28834
World Ranking
1375
National Ranking
825

Overview

Jennifer E. Lansford is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to child and adolescent development, with a substantial body of work in psychology and social sciences.

The main fields of study they contribute to include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, Lansford's research also covers several subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Their work addresses a variety of topics with a significant focus on psychosocial and emotional aspects of childhood and adolescence, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Youth Development and Social Support

Lansford's recent publication record features influential papers such as:

  • Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-21 (2022) published in PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Annual Research Review: Cross-cultural similarities and differences in parenting (2021) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures (2020) in Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study (2021) in Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries (2020) in Developmental Psychology

The journals in which Lansford frequently publishes include:

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Child Development
  • Developmental Psychology

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors throughout their career. Notable frequent collaborators are:

  • Kenneth A. Dodge
  • Marc H. Bornstein
  • Dario Bacchini
  • Laura Di Giunta
  • Kirby Deater-Deckard

Best Publications

  • Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children.

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Jennifer E. Lansford;Virginia Salzer Burks;John E. Bates

  • Parent Academic Involvement as Related to School Behavior, Achievement, and Aspirations: Demographic Variations Across Adolescence

    Nancy E. Hill;Domini R. Castellino;Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick Nowlin

  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Kenneth A. Dodge;Gregory S. Pettit;John E. Bates

  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang;Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone

  • Early Physical Abuse and Later Violent Delinquency: A Prospective Longitudinal Study:

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Shari Miller-Johnson;Lisa J. Berlin;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment.

    Jennifer E. Lansford

  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor;Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang

  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kenneth A. Dodge;John E. Bates

  • Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth Problems and Solutions.

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Thomas J. Dishion;Jennifer E. Lansford

  • Does Family Structure Matter? A Comparison of Adoptive, Two-Parent Biological, Single-Mother, Stepfather, and Stepmother Households

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Rosario Ceballo;Antonia Abbey;Abigail J. Stewart

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • Friendship Quality, Peer Group Affiliation, and Peer Antisocial Behavior as Moderators of the Link Between Negative Parenting and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Michael M. Criss;Gregory S. Pettit;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families.

    Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Jennifer E. Lansford;Holly R. Sexton;Pamela Davis-Kean

  • Influences of family structure and parental conflict on children's well-being

    Elizabeth A. Vandewater;Jennifer E. Lansford

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick S. Malone;Kenneth A. Dodge;Gregory S. Pettit

  • Negative effects of close social relations

    Toni C. Antonucci;Hiroko Akiyama;Jennifer E. Lansford

  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner;Emma Sorbring;Laura Di Giunta

  • Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Thomas J. Dishion;Jennifer E. Lansford

  • A Dynamic Cascade Model of the Development of Substance - Use Onset

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone;Jennifer E. Lansford;Shari Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University

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