Long Bio
Justin Jager is an Associate Professor of Family and Human Development at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Developmental Psychology from The University of Michigan in 2007. He has published widely on multiple topics concerning adolescence and developmental methodology, focusing on how complex person-context interactions involving contexts ranging from proximal (e.g., family) to distal (e.g., historical time) inform risk behavior and adjustment across adolescence. His work also focuses on how these processes vary both within and across race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual-minority status. Much of his current research focuses on how historical variation in the frequency and pattern of adolescent and young adult transitions has altered life-course norms differentially across gender and race, including the normative, developmental course of substance use. His work has been funded by NIAAA, NIMHD, NIDA, and NSF, and he has served on multiple NIH and NSF review panels as well as the editorial boards for American Psychologist, Developmental Psychology, Parenting: Science and Practice, and JRA. He also served as a Program Co-Chair for the 2023 Society for Research on Adolescence annual meeting and the 2018 Society for Research in Child Develoment Special Topic meeting focused on open science and secondary data. More recently, he was elected to the Society for Research on Adolescence Board of Directors (2024-2028).
Education
Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan 2007
Research Interests
My research pays particular attention to (1) contextual transitions associated with early adulthood and their impact on functioning, and (2) the dual impact of distal/adolescent and proximal/early adulthood factors on subsequent adjustment. Some of my more recent work also focuses on the family system and documents, through the latent modeling of dyadic and triadic data, agreement and disagreement among family members regarding family functioning and family relationships.
Publications
- Janssen, J, Seaton, E., Jager, J., & Miller, C. (in press). Guidance or gatekeeping: An Audit examination of racial discrimination in leading STEM high schools. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
- Jager, J., Rauer, A., Staff, J., Lansford, J.E., Pettit, G.S., & Schulenberg, J.E. (in press). The destabilization and destandardization of social roles across the adult life course: Considering aggregate social role instability and its variability from a historical-developmental perspective. Developmental Psychology.
- Jager, J., Keyes, K.M., Son, D., Patrick, M.E., Platt, J. & Schulenberg, J.E. (in press). Age 18-30 trajectories of binge drinking frequency and prevalence across the past 30 years for men and women: Delineating when and why historical trends reversed across age. Development and Psychopathology.
- Hinnant, B., Schulenberg, J., Jager, J. (2021). Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254211020402
- Jager, J., Keyes, K.M., *Son, D., Kloska, D., Patrick, M.E., Schulenberg. J.E. (2021). Cohort and ages trends in age 35-45 prevalence of alcohol use disorder symptomology, by severity, sex, race, and education. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108820
- Keyes, K.M., Platt, J., Rutherford, C., Patrick, M.E., Kloska, D.D., Schulenberg, J., & Jager, J. (2021). Cohort effects on gender differences in alcohol use in the United States: How much is explained by changing attitudes towards women and gendered roles? SSM-Population Health, 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100919
- Soltero, E.G., Ayers, S.L., Avalos, M.A., Pena, A., Williams, A.N., Olson, M.L., Konopken, Y.P., Castro, F.G., Arcoleo, K.J., Keller, C.S., Patrick, D.L., Jager, J., & Shaibi, G.Q. (2021). Theoretical mediators of diabetes risk of quality of life following a diabetes prevention program for Latino youth with obesity. American Journal of Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/08901171211012951
- Platt, J.M., Jager, J., Patrick, M.E., Kloska, D. Schulenberg, J., Rutherford, C., & Keyes, K.M. (2021). Forecasting future prevalence and gender differences in binge drinking among young adults through 2040. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45(10), 2069-2079. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14690
- Cutrin, O., Kulis, S. S., Ayers, S. L., Jager, J., Marsiglia, F. F. (2021). Perception of parental knowledge by parents and adolescents: Unique effects on recent substance use in a Latinx sample. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 9(3), 189-203. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000155
- Fuentes-Martinez, S., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Sladek, M. McDermontt, E., & Jager, J. (2021). Measurement Equivalence Testing of the American Identity Questionnaire across Black, Latino, and White Adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(3), 376-385. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000439
- Jager, J., & Keyes, K. M. (2021). Is substance use changing because of the COVID‐19 pandemic? Conceptual and methodological considerations to delineating the impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on substance use and disorder. Addiction, 116(6), 1301-1303. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15414
- Platt, J., Bates. L., Jager, J., McLaughlin, K. A., & Keyes, K. M. (2021). Is the US gender gap in depression changing over time? A meta-regression. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(7), 1190-1206. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab002
- Martinez-Fuentes, S., Jager, J., & Umana-Taylor, A. J. (2021). The mediation process between Latino youths family ethnic socialization, ethnic racial identity, and academic engagement: Moderation by ethnic-racial discrimination? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(2), 296-306. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000349
- Keyes, K. M., Jager, J., *Platt, J., Rutherford, C., Patrick, M.E., Kloska, D. D., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2020). When does attrition lead to biased estimates of alcohol consumption? Bias analysis for loss to follow-up in 30 longitudinal cohorts. International Journal of Methods in Psychological Research, 29(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1842
- Arevalo-Avalos, M. R., Ayers, S. L., Patrick, D. L., Jager, J., Castro, F. G., Konopken, Y. P., Olson, M. L., Keller, C. S., Soltero, E. G., Williams, A. N., & Shaibi, G. Q. (2020). Familism, Self-esteem, and weight-specific quality of life among Latinx adolescents with obesity. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 45(8), 848-857. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa047
- Platt, J. M., Bates, L. M., Jager, J., McLaughlin, K. A., & Keyes, K. M. (2020). Changes in the depression gender gap from 1992 to 2014: Cohort effects and mediation by gendered social position. Social Science and Medicine, 258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113088
- Martinez-Fuentes, S., Umana-Taylor, A. J., Jager, J., Seaton, E. K., & Sladek, M. R. (2020). An examination of ethnic-racial identity and US American identity among Black, Latino, and White adolescents. Identity, 20(3) 208-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2020.1784177
- Padilla, J., Jager, J., Updegraff, K. A., McHale, S. M., & Umana-Taylor, A. J. (2020). Mexican-origin family members’ unique and share family perspectives of familism values and their links with parent-youth relationship quality. Developmental Psychology, 56(5), 993-1008. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000913
- Vander Wyst K.B., Olson M.L., Keller C.S., Soltero E.G., Williams A.N., Pena A., Ayers S.L., Jager J., Shaibi G.Q. (2020). Sex as a Moderator of Body Composition following a Randomized Controlled Lifestyle Intervention among Latino Youth with Obesity. Pediatric Obesity, 15(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12620
- Keyes, K. M., Jager, J., Mal-Sarkar, J., Patrick, M. E., Rutherford, C., & Hasin, D. (2019) Is there a recent epidemic of women’s drinking? A critical review of national studies. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(7). 1344-1359. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14082
- Ayers, S., Jager, J., & Kulis, S.S. (2019). Variations in risk and promotive factors on substance use among urban American Indian Youth. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1598907
- Kulis, S.S., Marsiglia, F. F., Nuno-Gutierrez, B.L., Corona-Lozano, M. D., Mendoza-Melenez, M. A., *Kiehne, E., Jager, J., Ayers, S. L., & Han S. (2019). Reciprocal effects of alcohol use and violence perpetration among early adolescents in Mexico: A gendered analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(8), 1519-1531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01014-1
- Patrick, M. E., Terry-McElrath, Y. M., Lanza, S. T., Jager, J., Schulenberg, J. E., & O’Malley, P. M. (2019). Shifting age of peak binge drinking prevalence: Historical changes in normative trajectories among young adults aged 18 to 30. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(2), 287-298. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13933
- Lansford, J. E., Pettit, G. S., Rauer, A., Vandenberg, C. E., Schulenberg, J. E., Staff, J, Jager, J., Dodge, K. A., & Bates, J. E. (2019). Intergenerational continuity and stability in early family formation. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(3), 370-379. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000497
- Atkin, A. L., Yoo, B., & Jager, J., Yey, C. J. (2018). Internalization of the model-minority myth, school racial composition, and psychological distress among Asian American adolescents. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 9(2), 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000096
- Fiori, K., Rauer, A. J., Birditt, K. S., Marini, C., Jager, J., Brown, E., & Orbuch, T. L. (2018). I love you, not your friends: Links between partner’s early disapproval of friends and marital stability across 16 years. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
- Sangalang, C. C., Jager, J., Harachi, T. W. (2017). Effects of maternal trauma on family functioning and child mental health: An examination of Southeast Asian refugee families in the U. S. Social Science and Medicine.
- Davis-Kean, P. E., & Jager, J. (2017). From small to big: Methods for incorporating large-scale data into Developmental Science. In N. A. Card (Ed.), Developmental Methodology. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 82(2), 31-45
- Jager, J., Putnick, D. L., & M. H. Bornstein. (2017). More than just convenient: The scientific merits of homogeneous convenience samples. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 82(2), 13-30.
- McCabe, S. E., Kloska, D. D., Veliz, P., Jager, J., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2016). Developmental course of nonmedical use of prescription drugs from adolescence to adulthood in the United States: national longitudinal data. Addiction. 111, 2166-2176. DOI: 10.1111/add.13504.
- Jager, J., *Mahler, A., *An, D., Putnick, D. L., Bornstein, M. H., Lansford, J. E., Dodge, K. A., Skinner, A. T., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2016). Early adolescents’ unique perspectives of maternal and paternal rejection: Examining their across-dyad generalizability and relations with adjustment 1 year later. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45, 2108-2124. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0509-z.
- Fiori, K. L., Rauer, A. J., Birditt, K. S., Brown, E., Jager, J., & Orbuch, T. L. (2016). Social network typologies of Black and White married couples in midlife. Journal of Marriage and Family. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12330. On-line first publication: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12330/full
- Kulis, S. S., Ayers, S. L., Harthun, M. L., & Jager, J. (2016). Parenting in 2 worlds: Effects of a culturally adapted intervention for urban American Indians on parenting skills and family functioning. Prevention Science, 17(6), 721-731. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-016-0657-0.
- Kulis, S. S., Jager, J., Ayers, S. L., *Lateef, H., & *Kiehne, E. (2016). Substance use profiles of urban American Indian Adolescents: A latent class analysis. Substance Use and Misuse, 51, 1159-1173. DOI: 10826084.2016.1160125.
- Serra, M., De Pisapia, N., Rigo, P., Papinutto, N., Jager, J., Venuti, P., & Bornstein, M. H. (2015). Secure attachment status is associated with white matter integrity in health young adults. NeuroReport, 26(18), 1106-1111. DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000479.
- Davis-Kean, P. E., Jager, J., & Maslowsky, J. (2015). Answering your developmental questions using secondary data. Child Development Perspectives, 9(4), 256-261. DOI: 10.1111/cdep.1215.
- Keyes, K. M., Jager, J., Hamilton, A., O’Malley, P. O., Miech, R., & Schulenberg, J. (2015). National multi-cohort time trends in adolescent risk preference and the relation with substance use and problem behavior from 1976 to 2011. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 155, 267-274. DOI: org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.06.031.
- Jager, J., Keyes, K. M., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2015). Historical variation in young adult binge drinking trajectories and its link to historical variation in social roles and minimum legal drinking age. Developmental Psychology, 51(7), 962-974. DOI: /10.1037/dev0000022.
- Jager, J., *Yuen, C.X., Putnick, D.L., Hendricks, C., & Bornstein, M.H. (2015). Adolescent peer relationships, separation and detachment from parents, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Linkages and interactions. Journal of Early Adolescence, 35(4), 511-537. DOI: 0.1177/0272431614537116.
- Maslowsky, J., Jager, J., & Hemken, D. (2015). Interpreting latent variable interactions: Applications and extensions of the latent moderated structural equations method. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(1), 87-96. DOI: 0.1177/0165025414552301.
- Jager, J., *Yuen, C.X., Bornstein, M.H., Putnick, D.L., & Hendricks, C. (2014). The relations of family members' unique and shared perspectives of family dysfunction to dyad adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(3), 407-414. DOI: /10.1037/a0036809. 5-
- De Pisapia, N., Serra, M., Rigo, P., Jager, J., Papinutto, N., Esposito, G., Venuti, P., & Bornstein, M. H. (2014). Interpersonal competence in young adulthood and right laterality in white matter. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(6), 1257-1265. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00534.
- Davis-Kean, P. E., & Jager, J. (2014). Trajectories of achievement within race/ethnicity: “Catching up” in achievement across time. Journal of Educational Research, 107, 197- 208. DOI: 10.180.00220671.2013.807493.
- Bornstein, M. H., Jager J., & Putnick, D. L. (2013). Sampling in developmental science: Shortcomings and solutions. Developmental Review, 33(4), 357-370. [Authorship in alphabetical order; all authors contributed equally] DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2013.08.003.
- Jager, J., Schulenberg, J. E., O’Malley, P. M., & Bachman, J. G. (2013). Historical variation in drug use trajectories across the transition to adulthood: The trend towards lower intercepts and steeper, ascending slopes. Development and Psychopathology, 25(2), 527-543. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412001228.
- Jager, J., Bornstein, M. H., Putnick, D. L., & Hendricks, C. (2012). Family members’ unique- perspectives of the family: Examining their scope, size, and relations to individual adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(3), 400-410. DOI: 10.1037/a0028330.
- Maggs, J. L., Jager, J. Patrick, M. E., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2012). Social role patterning in the USA: Adolescent predictors and concurrent well-being across four distinct configurations. International Journal of Longitudinal Life Course Studies, 3(2), 190-210.
- Schoon, I., Chen, M., Kneale, D., & Jager, J. (2012). Becoming adults in Britain: What is a successful transition? Changing transition experiences and associated levels of wellbeing. International Journal of Longitudinal Life Course Studies, 3(2), 173-189.
- Fiori, K. L., & Jager, J. (2012). Social support networks and well-being across the lifespan: A longitudinal, pattern-centered approach. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(2), 117-129. DOI: 0.1177/0165025411424089.
- Jager, J. (2011). Convergence and non-convergence in the quality of adolescent relationships and its association with adolescent adjustment and young adult relationship quality.
- International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35(6), 497-506. DOI: 0.1177/0165025411422992.
- Jager, J. (2011). A developmental shift in Black-White differences in depressive affect across adolescence and early adulthood: The influence of early adult social roles and socio- economic status. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35(5), 457-469. DOI: 0.1177/0165025411417504.
- Jager, J., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2011). Same-sex sexuality and adolescent psychological well- being: The influence of sexual orientation, early reports of same-sex attraction, and gender. Self and Identity, 10(4), 417-444. DOI: 0.1080/15298861003771155.
- Davis-Kean, P. E., Jager, J., & Collins, W. A. (2009). The self in action: An emerging link between self beliefs and behaviors in middle childhood. Child Development Perspectives, 3(3), 184-188.
- Davis-Kean, P. E., Huesmann, R., Jager, J., Collins, A., Bates, J., & Lansford, J. (2008). Changes in the relation of beliefs and behaviors across development. Child Development, 79(5), 1257-1269. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27563551.
- Merline, A., Jager, J., & Schulenberg, J. (2008). Adolescent risk factors for adult alcohol use: Stability and change of predictive value across early and middle adulthood. Addiction, 103(Supplement 1), 84-99. DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02178.x.
Research Activity
- Chassin,Laurie*, Aiken,Leona S, Atkinson,Robert Kenneth, Ayers,Tim S, Berkel,Cady, Bitner,M J, Chen,Angela Chia-Chen, Corbin,William Robert, Crnic,Keith Alan, Dishion,Thomas, Doane,Leah D., Gonzales,Nancy A, Granger,Douglas, Grimm,Kevin John, Jager,Justin, Johnson,William G, Knight,George P, Lemery,Kathryn Sue, Luecken,Linda J, Luthar,Suniya, Mackinnon,David Peter, Mauricio,Anne Marie, Meier,Madeline, Newfeld,Stuart J, Ostrom,Amy, Perez La Mar,Marisol, Peterson,Suzanne Joanna, Pina,Armando A, Riley,William, Rivera,Daniel E, Sandler,Irwin Noah, Suk,Hye Won, Tein,Jenn-Yun, Umana-Taylor,Adriana J, West,Stephen G, Winslow,Emily Beth, Wolchik,Sharlene, Zhang,Zhen. Research training in drug abuseHIV prevention: closing the research-practice gap. HHS-NIH-NIDA(7/1/2015 - 6/30/2020).
- “Leveraging Bio-Cultural Mechanisms to Maximize the Impact of Multi-Level Preventable Disease Interventions with Southwest Populations,” 09/22/2017-04/30/2022. National Institute of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (2U54MD002316, F. Marsiglia, P.I.). Role: Co-Investigator for the Investigator Development Core of the center.
- Age, period, and cohort effects on gender differences in alcohol use and alcohol use disorders in 47 national, longitudinally-followed cohorts. 8/01/18 - 4/30/23). Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01-AA026861, Jager, J (MPI) and Keyes, K.M. (MPI). Role: Principal Investigator.
Courses
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FAS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2025 Spring
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| FAS 500 | Research Methods |
| CDE 590 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CDE 312 | Adolescence |
| SOC 312 | Adolescence |
| CDE 312 | Adolescence |
| SOC 312 | Adolescence |
| FAS 592 | Research |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FAS 592 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FAS 500 | Research Methods |
| FAS 592 | Research |
| CDE 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CDE 591 | Seminar |
| CDE 598 | Special Topics |
| CDE 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FAS 500 | Research Methods |
| CDE 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CDE 591 | Seminar |
| CDE 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FAS 500 | Research Methods |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CDE 598 | Special Topics |
Editorships
Consulting Editor, American Psychologist
Associate Editor, Parenting: Science and Practice
Consulting Editor, Developmental Psychology
Service
- Organizer and Program Co-Chair, DEVSEC: Conference on the use of Secondary and Open Source Data in Developmental Science, 2018 Special Topic Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
- Co-Chair, Finance Committee, Society for Research on Adolescence