EDUCATION
Ph.D.
University of Illinois- Urbana, Illinois.
M.A.
University of Illinois- Urbana, Illinois.
B.A.
University of California at Berkeley- Berkeley, CA
STATEMENT OF
RESEARCH
Dr. Jaccard is nationally recognized for his work in the area of adolescent risk, parenting and quantitative methodology. The author of five books and over 100 journal articles, he has been awarded over $4.5 million in support from major research organizations over the last ten years. His findings and insights are now instrumental in defining theory and practice in efforts to reduce adolescent pregnancy and drunk driving by adolescents. Dr. Jaccard conducts research on attitudes, communication, decision making, parenting of adolescents, intervention design, and quantitative methods.
COURSES TAUGHT
- Theory Construction
- Social Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Mental Processes
- Attitude Measurement and Psychometrics
- Attitude Theory and Change
- Research Methods in the Social Sciences
- Analysis of Interaction Effects
- Structural Equation Models
GRANTS
National Institute of Child Health and Development. Latino parenting and adolescent sexual risk taking. Oct 2006 - Sept 2009.
National Institute of Child Health and Development. Religion and adolescent sexual behavior. May, 2006 - May 2008.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The development of a parent add-on component for school based health programs. (Co-PI with Vincent Guilamo-Ramos). Division of Adolescent and School Health. Sept 2002 - Sept 2007
NIH, Grant Number HD2852212: Social/developmental models of binge drinking behavior. Sept 1999 - Sept 2004.
NIH, Grant Number HD2832404: Parent based interventions for reducing binge drinking. Oct 1999- Oct 2003.
NIH, Grant Number HD2832404: Alcohol use and adolescent sexual behavior. Oct 1997 - Sept 1998.
NIH, Grant Number HD2423415: Parent intervention programs for reducing adolescent drunk driving. July 1995 - July 1999.
NIH, Grant Number HD2832404: Adolescent Health Survey. Mar 1993 - Mar 1998.
NIH, Grant Number HD13015: Parent-teen communication and the prevention of unintended pregnancies. July 1991 - July 1993.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Grant Number AA06888: Cognitive mechanisms in drunk driving. Mar 1990 - Mar 1991
SELECT
PUBLICATIONS
Jaccard, J. and Jacoby, J. (2007). Theory construction: A practical guide for social scientists. New York: Guilford , In press.
Jaccard, J., and Turrisi, R., (2003) Interaction effects in multiple regression . Newbury Park: Sage.
Jaccard, J. (2001). Interaction effects in logistic regression. Newbury Park: Sage.
Jaccard, J. (1998). Interaction effects in factorial analysis of variance. Newbury Park: Sage.
Jaccard, J. and Dittus, P. (1991). Parent-teenager communication: Towards the prevention of unintended pregnancies. New York: Springer-Verlag
Brinberg, D. and Jaccard, J. (1989). Dyadic decision making. New York: Springer-Verlag
Jaccard, J. and Becker, M. (2000). Statistics for the behavioral sciences. Belmont, California: Wadsworth.
Blanton, H. and Jaccard, J. (2006). Tests of multiplicative models in psychology: A case study using the unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self esteem and self concept. Psychological Review, 122, 155-169.
Blanton, H. & Jaccard, J. (2006). Arbitrary metrics in psychology. American Psychologist, 61, 27-41.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Dittus, P., and Bouris, A., (2006). Parental expertise, trustworthiness, and accessibility: Parent-adolescent communication and adolescent risk behavior. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 1249-1266.
