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Jacqueline V. Lerner

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Jacqueline V. Lerner

Ph.D.

Contact

Campion 239C

Telephone: 617-552-2648

Email: jacqueline.lerner@bc.edu

ORCID

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
Curriculum Vitae

Department

CDEP Counseling, Developmental & Educational Psychology

Profile

Jacqueline V Lerner is a Professor of Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at 艾可直播 College. She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the positive development of adolescents and young adults in the contexts of family, school and community, and the embedded relationships in these contexts that contribute to overall development. She has published widely in the leading journals in the field, and has authored or coauthored several chapters in the leading Handbooks in the field. She has collaborated as the PI or Co-PI on several national and international longitudinal investigations of the positive and character development of youth.

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). 鈥淲e are protected.鈥� 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.聽
  • 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聽
  • 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聽
  • Le, T. U., Johnson, S. K., & Lerner, J.V. (2022) Exploring moderators of the relationship between adolescents鈥� social responsibility and civic actions. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, DOI:10.1002/casp.2618.聽
  • 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聽
  • 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 鈥淏ig Three鈥� Components of Positive Youth Development programs in Rwanda. Child & Youth Care Forum, 49, 201- 220.doi.org/10.1007/s10566-019-09524-6聽
  • 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鈥� Goals [Special issue]: Zeitschrift f眉r 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聽
  • Lerner, R. M., Tirrell, J. M., Dowling, E. M., Geldhof, J., Gestsd贸ttir, 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聽
  • 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 adolescent飪燂儬family relationships. Journal of Family Theory & Review. DOI:10.1111/jftr.12347.聽
  • 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聽

Select Grants

  • Lerner, R. M. and Lerner, J.V. Follow-up and extension of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, Funded by National 4-H Council, May 2020- April 2023. ($1,100,000.)
  • Lerner, R.M., and Lerner, J.V. The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Funded by the National 4-H Council and Altria Corporation. 2001-2013 ($8,300,000.)
  • Lerner, J. V. and Bowers, E. P. Doing the Right Thing: Intentional Self-Regulation and the Promotion of Character Development. John Templeton Foundation 2014- 2017 (3 years 鈥� $1,960,064.)
  • Lerner, R.M, Lerner, J.V., and King, P.E. 'Developing Responsible and Fulfilled Christian Adults: Towards a Multi-National Longitudinal Study of the Compassion International Model of Promoting Positive Youth Development among Children Living in Poverty', funded by Compassion International. Lloyd Trust and King Philanthropies, July 2016 - June 2022 ($2,900,000)
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