Jennifer M. Barton | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Jennifer M. Barton

Assistant Research Professor

Summary Statement

Jenny is a developmental and family scientist who is interested in understanding how the contexts that infants and preschoolers are embedded can influence their nutrition, growth and health.

Department

Center for Childhood Obesity Research - CCOR

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Human Development and Family Sciences, 2021
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Human Development and Family Sciences, 2018
M.S., University of North Florida, General Psychology, 2016
B.S., University of North Florida, Psychology, concentration in Child Psychology, 2012

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jvb6891@psu.edu

Office Address

129 Noll Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802

Research Interests

Daily variability in parent-child interactions with a focus on feeding young children.

Measuring the home food environment as an indicator of child nutrition and how this environment changes as children age.

Understanding change in weight gain during early childhood through early context predictors

Developing, implementing, and evaluating effective interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of young children and their families among high-risk populations in rural communities.

Publications

Fiese, B.H., Barton, J.M., & Sahin, E. (2023). Longitudinal changes in home food availability across the first three years of life and associations with family context predictors. Frontiers in Nutrition, 10, 1215894. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1215894

Koepp, A.E., Barton, J.M., Berendzen, H.M., Rough, H.E., & Gershoff, E.T. (2023). Parents’ coping and mental health during COVID-19. Family Relations, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12929

Tabb, K.M., Simonovich, S.D., Wozniak, J., Barton, J.M., Hsieh, W-J.W., Klement, C., Ostrowski, M.E., Lakhani, N., Meline, B., & Huang, H. (2023). WIC views and staff perceptions on the relationship between food insecurity and perinatal depression. Healthcare, 11, 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010068

Barton, J.M. (2022). Food and beverage offerings by parents of preschoolers: A daily survey study during COVID-19. Appetite, 174, 106047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106047

Bichteler, A., Barton, J.M., Lumeng, J.C., & Gershoff, E.T. (2022). Patterns of childhood body mass index percentile gains as predictors of adolescent body mass index, waist circumference, and blood pressure. Academic Pediatrics, 22(5), 769-776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.11.015

Barton, J.M., Nicholson, J.S., Truelove, H.B. (2020). Investigating the effectiveness of a community-based activity on community service attitudes. In C. Winterbottom, J. Nicholson, & D. Richard (Eds.), Community-based transformational learning: An interdisciplinary inquiry into students’ experiences and challenges (pp. 15-30). London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Nicholson, J.S., Barton, J.M., & Simons, A. L. (2018). Ability to categorize food predicts hypothetical food choices in Head Start preschoolers. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 50, 238-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2017.09.026

Nicholson, J.S., Truelove, H.B., Barton, J.M., & Moulder, R.G. (2016). Measuring college students’ community service attitudes validly and efficiently: Development of a short version of the community service attitudes scale. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 8. DOI unavailable.

Allen, A.B., Barton, J., Stevenson, O. (2015). Presenting a self-compassionate image after an interpersonal transgression. Self and Identity, 14, 33-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2014.946958.