Jennifer Burke Lefever

Biographic Data

ID1652490
NAMEJennifer Burke Lefever
GIVEN NAMESJennifer Burke
FAMILY NAMELefever
SIGNATURELEFEVER J B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
ORCID0000-0002-8162-1815
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children

    Open AccessAbigail L Mills, Luisa Lopez Mader et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2022

    Parent‐Child Interactions (PCI) is a home visit parenting intervention designed to promote positive parenting and deter punitive approaches to child behavior management. With attention to the importance of providing efficacious interventions for families from diverse backgrounds, this study used a subsample from a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the efficacy of PCI intervention among Latinx participants. PCI was offered to 170…

  • Efficacy of a reminiscing and emotion training intervention on maltreating families with preschool-aged children

    Kristin Valentino, E Mark Cummings et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2019Cited by: 3References: 6

    The current investigation reports the results of a randomized controlled trial of a brief, relational intervention for maltreated preschool-aged children and their mothers, called Reminiscing and Emotion Training (RET). RET facilitates elaborative and emotionally supportive parent-child communication, which is an essential component of the parent-child relationship and is especially relevant for the preschool age period. Participants were 248 chi…

  • The importance of early life touch for psychosocial and moral development

    Open AccessDarcia Narvaez, Lijuan Wang et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2019Cited by: 1References: 64

    One of the primary means of communicating with a baby is through touch. Nurturing physical touch promotes healthy physiological development in social mammals, including humans. Physiology influences wellbeing and psychosocial functioning. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connections among early life positive and negative touch and wellbeing and sociomoral development. In study 1, mothers of preschoolers (n = 156) reported their attitud…

  • The evolved development niche

    Darcia Narvaez, Tracy Gleason et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2013Cited by: 5References: 8

  • Processes in language acquisition

    Open AccessJan Karrass, Julia M Braungart-Rieker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2002

    This longitudinal study including 87 infant–mother dyads examined the relation between infant temperamental attention, maternal encouragement of attention, language, and the effects of gender. At ages 0;4, 0;8, and 1;0, global attention was assessed from Rothbart's (1981) IBQ; manipulative exploration was assessed with the Bayley (1969) IBR; and maternal verbal, visual and physical encouragement of attention were coded from 5 minutes of mother–in…