Wen-Juo Lo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 140430 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wen-Juo Lo |
| NOMBRES | Wen-Juo |
| APELLIDO | Lo |
| FIRMA | LO W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5279-8163 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A Multi‐Study Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Government's Role in Regulating Abortion Before and After the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision
Background The Dobbs v. Jackson decision radically shifted US abortion policy. This study examines how public attitudes toward state and federal government involvement in abortion regulation evolved surrounding this ruling. Methods Using a mixed‐methods approach, we first analyzed survey ( N = 1583) and interview data ( n = 24) collected in 2021, examining people's views on government involvement in abortion (Study 1). We then used a longitudinal…
Path Analysis With Mixed-Scale Variables
In applied research across education, the social and behavioral sciences, and medicine, path models frequently incorporate both continuous and ordinal manifest variables to predict binary outcomes. This study employs Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate six estimators: robust maximum likelihood with probit and logit links (MLR-probit, MLR-logit), mean- and variance-adjusted weighted and unweighted least squares (WLSMV, ULSMV), and Bayesian methods…
Impacts of DIF Item Balance and Effect Size Incorporation With the Rasch Tree
Ensuring fairness in educational and psychological assessments is critical, particularly in detecting differential item functioning (DIF), where items perform differently across subgroups. The Rasch tree method, a model-based recursive partitioning approach, is an innovative and flexible DIF detection tool that does not require the pre-specification of focal and reference groups. However, research systematically examining its performance under re…
U.S. men's views about women's and men's agency in the abortion decision-making process
Research examining men's public opinion on women's and men's roles in abortion is limited but increasingly important as access to abortion has shifted dramatically in the U.S. In this study, we examined U.S. men's views of women's and men's agency in abortion decision-making. We explored 72 in-depth interviews on abortion attitudes conducted with men in 2021 and identified three main narratives. First, most men indicated that abortion is exclusiv…
Differences in HPV Vaccine Information Usefulness and Understanding Between Parents With and Without a Child with Special Healthcare Needs
Examining public opinion on endorsed punishments for illegal abortion by abortion legality and abortion‐restrictive states before Dobbs v. Jackson
Research Summary As a result of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade , state lawmakers can and have enacted abortion restrictions, including criminal penalties targeting those who seek, provide, or assist with abortion. Given the current legal landscape, it is imperative to assess public opinion regarding the endorsement of punishments for illegal abortion. We conducted multivariate analyses t…
Analysis of Treatment Effect Indices Used in Counseling Single Case Research
How Familism and Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Shape Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion Among Latinx and non-Latinx Adults in the United States
People who strongly value family ties may see family support and interconnection as a reason to discourage women from seeking abortion. At the same time, sexist beliefs are often linked to negative views on abortion. Hostile and benevolent sexism are typically associated with anti-abortion sentiment; hostile sexism conceptualizes abortion as a challenge to traditional gender roles and benevolent sexism conceptualizes abortion as a rejection of wo…
Distinct and Separate Issues
Background The COVID‐19 pandemic reshaped people's healthcare experiences and access to healthcare, including abortion. In response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, some policymakers claimed that abortion is a nonessential service and should be restricted. In contrast, other policymakers contended that abortion is time‐sensitive essential healthcare, and access to it should be protected. These efforts put access to abortion into the public arena during …
Exploring the Association between Measures of Cross-Culturalism and Abortion Attitudes Amongst Latinxs in the United States
It is imperative to understand how cross-cultural processes are associated with Latinxs’ social attitudes. In this study, we analyzed data from an online survey of 968 Latinx adults in the United States. We explored the associations of three different cross-cultural scales—the Brief Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (BASH), the Psychological Acculturation Scale (PAS), and the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans II (ARSMA-II)—with U.S…
Participant‐driven salient beliefs regarding abortion
Objective Guided by the Reasoned Action Approach, we used a salient belief elicitation (SBE) to elicit participant‐generated beliefs regarding abortion. SBE is a formative research technique used to elicit people's control (i.e., perceived facilitators and barriers associated with a behavior), behavioral (i.e., perceived positive and negative consequences of doing a behavior), and normative (i.e., influence of important people/peers regarding a b…
Examining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Pregnancy and Fetal Development Timing and Support for Abortion Bans
This study examines the relationship between perceptions of pregnancy and fetal milestone timing and support for abortion bans. Using survey data collected from a representative sample of 739 US adults, we use logistic regression to predict support for six- and 15-week abortion bans. Perceptions of timing for the milestones of pregnancy awareness and fetal pain are significantly related to support for six-week abortion bans. Furthermore, this rel…
Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances
This study examines how Latinx migrant generation and the circumstances of abortion may be linked to attitudes toward abortion legality among a sample of U.S.-Latinx adults. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes modeling, we found that abortion attitudes across different migrant generations are sensitive to circumstances motivating the abortion. We did not find significant differences across migrant generation…
Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Perceptions of abortion access across the United States prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision
Prior to Dobbs, participants' interpretation of the ease or difficulty of accessing abortion were subjective. Misconceptions about state abortion laws and the prevalence of providers were common, suggesting a need for more education about abortion laws, policies, and access
Examining differences in attitudes toward legal abortion in cases of endangered mental health for pregnant women
We explored demographic differences in attitudes toward abortion in the case of mental health endangerment. A web-based survey was administered in English and Spanish to a sample of 1,583 participants. Using ordinal logistic regression with partial proportional odds, we regressed political affiliation, race/ethnicity, education, and religious attendance on people’s attitudes toward abortion legality when a woman’s mental health is endangered. Dem…
Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality
In the United States, legislation intended to limit abortion access based on fetal development markers (e.g., heartbeat, fetal pain) has become increasingly common. We found that people’s support for legal abortion decreases when survey items mention fetal developmental markers compared with items that do not. However, the majority of participants supported access to legal abortion in health-related circumstances or pregnancies as a result of rap…
Using a decentering framework to create English/Spanish surveys about abortion
The growth of populations for whom English is not a native language has reinforced the need for multilanguage survey data collections. This is particularly true in the study of sexual and reproductive health issues such as abortion. However, the limited number of bilingual surveys about abortion and the lack of information regarding the translation process for bilingual surveys necessitates the development of new surveys specifically attuned to l…
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida
Objective We examine how a sample of English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults define the terms pro‐life/pro‐vida and pro‐choice/pro‐elección and explore whether definitions differ by language and/or ethnicity. Methods We asked a sample of 1504 English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults to define the terms pro‐choice/pro‐elección and pro‐life/pro‐vida in an open‐ended format. We used content and thematic analysis to examine congruence and discorda…
Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Roe v. Wade Among US Latinx Adults
This study examines knowledge of and attitudes toward Roe v. Wade among a sample of 779 US Latinx adults. Survey response patterns were examined in relation to generational status and choice of survey language as well as to several demographic variables previously shown to influence abortion attitudes (e.g., age, religiosity, political affiliation). Differences were found in knowledge of Roe v. Wade by generational status and survey language, wit…
Applicability of a Salient Belief Elicitation to Measure Abortion Beliefs
Objectives: Salient belief elicitations (SBEs), informed by the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA), are used to identify 3 sets of beliefs - behavioral, control, and normative - that influence attitudes toward a health behavior. SBEs ask participants about their own beliefs through open-ended questions. We adapted a SBE by focusing on abortion, which is infrequently examined through SBEs; we also included a survey version that asked participants thei…
Examining the Effect of a Randomized Media Intervention on Knowledge and Support of Abortion Restrictions
Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
Abortion vs. Sexual Assault
Public reaction to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States initially centered around abortion. However, approximately two months after the nomination, sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh were made public. We examined the extent that people's perceptions of Kavanaugh's stance on abortion and people's attitudes toward whether Kavanaugh committed sexual assault were associated with perceptions of Kavanaugh as …
Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
Previous research indicates that abortion attitudes may vary across different contexts, such as the reason for abortion and gestational age of the pregnancy. To expand on these findings, we examined abortion attitudes as they pertain to fetal development-based bans. Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, we assessed correlates of support and opposition to these types of bans and contextualized our quantitative findings by analyzing …
Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
Are Women’s Orgasms Hindered by Phallocentric Imperatives
Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice
Examining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Pregnancy and Fetal Development Timing and Support for Abortion Bans
This study examines the relationship between perceptions of pregnancy and fetal milestone timing and support for abortion bans. Using survey data collected from a representative sample of 739 US adults, we use logistic regression to predict support for six- and 15-week abortion bans. Perceptions of timing for the milestones of pregnancy awareness and fetal pain are significantly related to support for six-week abortion bans. Furthermore, this rel…
Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality
In the United States, legislation intended to limit abortion access based on fetal development markers (e.g., heartbeat, fetal pain) has become increasingly common. We found that people’s support for legal abortion decreases when survey items mention fetal developmental markers compared with items that do not. However, the majority of participants supported access to legal abortion in health-related circumstances or pregnancies as a result of rap…
Participant‐driven salient beliefs regarding abortion
Objective Guided by the Reasoned Action Approach, we used a salient belief elicitation (SBE) to elicit participant‐generated beliefs regarding abortion. SBE is a formative research technique used to elicit people's control (i.e., perceived facilitators and barriers associated with a behavior), behavioral (i.e., perceived positive and negative consequences of doing a behavior), and normative (i.e., influence of important people/peers regarding a b…
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida
Objective We examine how a sample of English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults define the terms pro‐life/pro‐vida and pro‐choice/pro‐elección and explore whether definitions differ by language and/or ethnicity. Methods We asked a sample of 1504 English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults to define the terms pro‐choice/pro‐elección and pro‐life/pro‐vida in an open‐ended format. We used content and thematic analysis to examine congruence and discorda…
Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
Previous research indicates that abortion attitudes may vary across different contexts, such as the reason for abortion and gestational age of the pregnancy. To expand on these findings, we examined abortion attitudes as they pertain to fetal development-based bans. Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, we assessed correlates of support and opposition to these types of bans and contextualized our quantitative findings by analyzing …
Perceptions of abortion access across the United States prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision
Prior to Dobbs, participants' interpretation of the ease or difficulty of accessing abortion were subjective. Misconceptions about state abortion laws and the prevalence of providers were common, suggesting a need for more education about abortion laws, policies, and access
Abortion vs. Sexual Assault
Public reaction to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States initially centered around abortion. However, approximately two months after the nomination, sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh were made public. We examined the extent that people's perceptions of Kavanaugh's stance on abortion and people's attitudes toward whether Kavanaugh committed sexual assault were associated with perceptions of Kavanaugh as …
Beyond “Just Saying No”
Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances
This study examines how Latinx migrant generation and the circumstances of abortion may be linked to attitudes toward abortion legality among a sample of U.S.-Latinx adults. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes modeling, we found that abortion attitudes across different migrant generations are sensitive to circumstances motivating the abortion. We did not find significant differences across migrant generation…
Examining the Effect of a Randomized Media Intervention on Knowledge and Support of Abortion Restrictions
Evaluation of Parallel Analysis Methods for Determining the Number of Factors
Population and sample simulation approaches were used to compare the performance of parallel analysis using principal component analysis (PA-PCA) and parallel analysis using principal axis factoring (PA-PAF) to identify the number of underlying factors. Additionally, the accuracies of the mean eigenvalue and the 95th percentile eigenvalue criteria were examined. The 95th percentile criterion was preferable for assessing the first eigenvalue using…
Psychosocial Educational Groups for Students (Pegs)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a new psychosocial intervention program, Psychosocial Educational Groups for Students (PEGS). The PEGS program is designed to help students in the areas of social skills, problem behaviors, bullying, and self-esteem. Three groups of elementary school students participated. Results showed significant improvement in self-control for Group 1; social skills for Group 2; and assertion, self-repo…
Revisiting the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire
The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) has dominated self-regulated learning research since the early 1990s. In this study, the two MSLQ subscales specifically designed to assess self-regulation—Metacognitive Self-Regulation subscale and Effort Regulation subscale—were examined. Results indicated that the structure of the two scales is not supported by the original data reported by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, and McKeachie in 199…
A Proposed Solution to the Problem With Using Completely Random Data to Assess the Number of Factors With Parallel Analysis
A number of psychometricians have argued for the use of parallel analysis to determine the number of factors. However, parallel analysis must be viewed at best as a heuristic approach rather than a mathematically rigorous one. The authors suggest a revision to parallel analysis that could improve its accuracy. A Monte Carlo study is conducted to compare revised and traditional parallel analysis approaches. Five dimensions are manipulated in the s…
Type I and Type II Error Rates and Overall Accuracy of the Revised Parallel Analysis Method for Determining the Number of Factors
Traditional parallel analysis (T-PA) estimates the number of factors by sequentially comparing sample eigenvalues with eigenvalues for randomly generated data. Revised parallel analysis (R-PA) sequentially compares the kth eigenvalue for sample data to the kth eigenvalue for generated data sets, conditioned on k− 1 underlying factors. T-PA and R-PA are conceptualized as stepwise hypothesis-testing procedures and, thus, are alternatives to sequent…
Are Women’s Orgasms Hindered by Phallocentric Imperatives
Beyond “Just Saying No”
College Student E-cigarette Use
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument using the reasoned action approach (RAA) to measure recreational electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among college students. Methods: Using a multi-phase, cross-sectional design, a 32-item measure was developed, and the factor structure was explored and confirmed using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA; N = 369) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; N = 320), re…
Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
College students’ underlying beliefs about using e-cigarettes
Background. The purpose of this study was to explore the underlying behavioral beliefs, normative beliefs, and control beliefs about e-cigarette use among college students using the Reasoned Action Approach.Methods. This study used a sequential mixed-methods design over 3 Phases. During Phase 1, salient beliefs were elicited via an online survey (n = 58); chi-square analyses were conducted to examine differences between e-cigarette users and non-…
Applicability of a Salient Belief Elicitation to Measure Abortion Beliefs
Objectives: Salient belief elicitations (SBEs), informed by the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA), are used to identify 3 sets of beliefs - behavioral, control, and normative - that influence attitudes toward a health behavior. SBEs ask participants about their own beliefs through open-ended questions. We adapted a SBE by focusing on abortion, which is infrequently examined through SBEs; we also included a survey version that asked participants thei…
Examining the Effect of a Randomized Media Intervention on Knowledge and Support of Abortion Restrictions
Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
Abortion vs. Sexual Assault
Public reaction to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States initially centered around abortion. However, approximately two months after the nomination, sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh were made public. We examined the extent that people's perceptions of Kavanaugh's stance on abortion and people's attitudes toward whether Kavanaugh committed sexual assault were associated with perceptions of Kavanaugh as …
Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
Previous research indicates that abortion attitudes may vary across different contexts, such as the reason for abortion and gestational age of the pregnancy. To expand on these findings, we examined abortion attitudes as they pertain to fetal development-based bans. Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, we assessed correlates of support and opposition to these types of bans and contextualized our quantitative findings by analyzing …
Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice
Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality
In the United States, legislation intended to limit abortion access based on fetal development markers (e.g., heartbeat, fetal pain) has become increasingly common. We found that people’s support for legal abortion decreases when survey items mention fetal developmental markers compared with items that do not. However, the majority of participants supported access to legal abortion in health-related circumstances or pregnancies as a result of rap…
Using a decentering framework to create English/Spanish surveys about abortion
The growth of populations for whom English is not a native language has reinforced the need for multilanguage survey data collections. This is particularly true in the study of sexual and reproductive health issues such as abortion. However, the limited number of bilingual surveys about abortion and the lack of information regarding the translation process for bilingual surveys necessitates the development of new surveys specifically attuned to l…
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida
Objective We examine how a sample of English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults define the terms pro‐life/pro‐vida and pro‐choice/pro‐elección and explore whether definitions differ by language and/or ethnicity. Methods We asked a sample of 1504 English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults to define the terms pro‐choice/pro‐elección and pro‐life/pro‐vida in an open‐ended format. We used content and thematic analysis to examine congruence and discorda…
Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Roe v. Wade Among US Latinx Adults
This study examines knowledge of and attitudes toward Roe v. Wade among a sample of 779 US Latinx adults. Survey response patterns were examined in relation to generational status and choice of survey language as well as to several demographic variables previously shown to influence abortion attitudes (e.g., age, religiosity, political affiliation). Differences were found in knowledge of Roe v. Wade by generational status and survey language, wit…
Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Perceptions of abortion access across the United States prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision
Prior to Dobbs, participants' interpretation of the ease or difficulty of accessing abortion were subjective. Misconceptions about state abortion laws and the prevalence of providers were common, suggesting a need for more education about abortion laws, policies, and access
Examining differences in attitudes toward legal abortion in cases of endangered mental health for pregnant women
We explored demographic differences in attitudes toward abortion in the case of mental health endangerment. A web-based survey was administered in English and Spanish to a sample of 1,583 participants. Using ordinal logistic regression with partial proportional odds, we regressed political affiliation, race/ethnicity, education, and religious attendance on people’s attitudes toward abortion legality when a woman’s mental health is endangered. Dem…
Participant‐driven salient beliefs regarding abortion
Objective Guided by the Reasoned Action Approach, we used a salient belief elicitation (SBE) to elicit participant‐generated beliefs regarding abortion. SBE is a formative research technique used to elicit people's control (i.e., perceived facilitators and barriers associated with a behavior), behavioral (i.e., perceived positive and negative consequences of doing a behavior), and normative (i.e., influence of important people/peers regarding a b…
Examining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Pregnancy and Fetal Development Timing and Support for Abortion Bans
This study examines the relationship between perceptions of pregnancy and fetal milestone timing and support for abortion bans. Using survey data collected from a representative sample of 739 US adults, we use logistic regression to predict support for six- and 15-week abortion bans. Perceptions of timing for the milestones of pregnancy awareness and fetal pain are significantly related to support for six-week abortion bans. Furthermore, this rel…
Psychology (27 obras) · Abortion (22 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (19 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Pregnancy (14 obras) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Law (13 obras)