Brandon L Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 140432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon L Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon L |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5509-5578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
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…
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…
Did the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision Influence People’s Attitudes Toward Abortion Legality Across Abortion Circumstances and Weeks’ Gestation
Introduction We examined the impact of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision on changes in people’s attitudes toward endorsement of legal abortion across abortion circumstances (e.g., woman’s health endangerment , low income , rape , unprepared to parent ) and weeks’ gestation (i.e., never, 6 weeks, 15 weeks, 22 weeks, always). Methods Longitudinal data were collected from a nationally representative sample of English and…
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…
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…
Who Were You Thinking About? Participant Reports of People They Imagined While Responding to an Abortion Attitudes Survey
Objective Abortion attitudes vary based on abortion contexts (e.g., reasons for abortion) and potentially the abortion seeker (i.e., abortion actor). Yet, abortion‐related survey research may not account for these factors. We explored the abortion actors and contexts that respondents think about while responding to abortion attitude survey items. Methods We used a mixed‐methods, multi‐study design. In Study 1, participants were randomly assigned …
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…
(Re)Conceptualizing abortion attitudes through the lens of Abortion Tolerance
Is news consumption related to abortion attitudes? An exploratory study with a nationally representative sample of US adults
The news is an efficient way to share information and plays an important role in shaping and reflecting cultural values and norms. However, research examining news consumption and abortion attitudes is limited. In this exploratory study, we analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of 886 US adults to assess whether self-reported frequency of news consumption—by news format (e.g., television, radio, newspaper, social media), news lean…
Can someone be both pro‐life and pro‐choice? Results from a national survey of US adults
Our findings demonstrate complexity in measuring people's endorsement of abortion identity labels. We recommend developing more nuanced and consistent measures to assess abortion attitudes
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…
Attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion regulation
Objective National public opinion polls and surveys use different questions from one another to assess people's abortion attitudes. We included commonly asked abortion attitude items on a single survey to examine people's attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion restriction to create profiles of people which we then compared across state groups. Concurrently assessing attitudes toward both abortion legality and restrictions is important gi…
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…
Medicine and abortion
Implementing a Standardized Effect Size in the Polysibtest Procedure
A study was conducted to implement the use of a standardized effect size and corresponding classification guidelines for polytomous data with the POLYSIBTEST procedure and compare those guidelines with prior recommendations. Two simulation studies were included. The first identifies new unstandardized test heuristics for classifying moderate and large differential item functioning (DIF) for polytomous response data with three to seven response op…
Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Online Social Media Reactions to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
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…
Abortion Stigma
We examined public opinion regarding unique aspects of abortion legality to better understand potential contexts in which stigma may occur and the extent that people (a) believe actors involved in abortion (i.e., pregnant woman, healthcare provider, man involved in the pregnancy, someone providing information about where to get an abortion, parents of a minor) should be held responsible for illegal abortion, (b) believe abortion should be illegal…
Reevaluating the Sibtest Classification Heuristics for Dichotomous Differential Item Functioning
A simulation study was conducted to investigate the heuristics of the SIBTEST procedure and how it compares with ETS classification guidelines used with the Mantel–Haenszel procedure. Prior heuristics have been used for nearly 25 years, but they are based on a simulation study that was restricted due to computer limitations and that modeled item parameters from estimates of ACT and ASVAB tests from 1987 and 1984, respectively. Further, suggested …
“It Was Just Really Hard to Be Pregnant in a Smaller Town …”
Teenage pregnancy has a history of being a "social problem" in the United States, with there being higher rates in rural communities. Social support, a contributor to improving mental health outcomes, can significantly impact a teenager's pregnancy and parenting experience. Using House's (1981) social support framework, this study explores the teenagers' perceptions of how their rural community reacted and responded to them as pregnant and parent…
Complexity in Attitudes Toward Abortion Access
Abortion Complexity Scores from 1972 to 2018
Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
Risk of serious criminal involvement among former foster youth aging out of care
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…
Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age
Objective The aim of this study is to examine how situational abortion attitudes differ when including additional context related to the gestational age of the pregnancy. Method Ordinary Least Squares Regression models predicting abortion attitudes across four different sets of abortion attitude questions, using data collected from an online panel weighted to match U.S. benchmarks. Results Later gestational ages are associated with less support f…
In the Fabric of Research
We investigated the content of survey items to assess whether and how racist and sexist stereotypes are woven into the fabric of research on attitudes about abortion in the United States. We collected and analyzed a comprehensive set of survey items (456 items from 80 studies) used in peer‐reviewed research published from 2008 to 2018 in representative and nonrepresentative studies of U.S. respondents. Our analysis was guided by historical narrat…
Parent gender and child removal in physical abuse and neglect cases
Abortion Stigma
We examined public opinion regarding unique aspects of abortion legality to better understand potential contexts in which stigma may occur and the extent that people (a) believe actors involved in abortion (i.e., pregnant woman, healthcare provider, man involved in the pregnancy, someone providing information about where to get an abortion, parents of a minor) should be held responsible for illegal abortion, (b) believe abortion should be illegal…
Can someone be both pro‐life and pro‐choice? Results from a national survey of US adults
Our findings demonstrate complexity in measuring people's endorsement of abortion identity labels. We recommend developing more nuanced and consistent measures to assess abortion attitudes
Identifying accurate pro‐choice and pro‐life identity labels in Spanish
No singular Spanish abortion identity label encapsulates abortion beliefs; however, there are several viable options. Just as the debate remains ongoing about pro-choice and pro-life as accurate indicators of abortion beliefs in English, we must also consider that identity is more complex than binary labels in Spanish
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…
Abortion Stigma
Prior to and since the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. state laws have endorsed individuals surveilling and punishing those associated with abortion care. This practice presents an urgent need to understand the characteristics of abortion stigma, particularly the perspectives of individuals with stigmatizing beliefs. To examine the concept and characteristics of abortion stigma, we interviewed 55 individuals about whether they thought there should be c…
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 …
(Re)Conceptualizing abortion attitudes through the lens of Abortion Tolerance
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 …
The Status of Reproductive and Sexual Health in Southern USA
Attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion regulation
Objective National public opinion polls and surveys use different questions from one another to assess people's abortion attitudes. We included commonly asked abortion attitude items on a single survey to examine people's attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion restriction to create profiles of people which we then compared across state groups. Concurrently assessing attitudes toward both abortion legality and restrictions is important gi…
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…
Online Social Media Reactions to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
Examining the Effect of a Randomized Media Intervention on Knowledge and Support of Abortion Restrictions
The Status of Reproductive and Sexual Health in Southern USA
Parent gender and child removal in physical abuse and neglect cases
Complexity in Attitudes Toward Abortion Access
Risk of serious criminal involvement among former foster youth aging out of care
Mental Health Diagnoses of Youth Commercial Sex Exploitation Victims
Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
Abortion Complexity Scores from 1972 to 2018
Design considerations for beneficial use sites along the Channel to Victoria, Calhoun County, Texas
The CTV is a shallow-draft navigation channel, authorized to -14 feet (ft) Mean Lower-Low Water (-14.19 ft Mean Tide Level [MTL]) and is a tributary to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) (Figure 1).The CTV runs along the eastern
In the Fabric of Research
We investigated the content of survey items to assess whether and how racist and sexist stereotypes are woven into the fabric of research on attitudes about abortion in the United States. We collected and analyzed a comprehensive set of survey items (456 items from 80 studies) used in peer‐reviewed research published from 2008 to 2018 in representative and nonrepresentative studies of U.S. respondents. Our analysis was guided by historical narrat…
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
Reevaluating the Sibtest Classification Heuristics for Dichotomous Differential Item Functioning
A simulation study was conducted to investigate the heuristics of the SIBTEST procedure and how it compares with ETS classification guidelines used with the Mantel–Haenszel procedure. Prior heuristics have been used for nearly 25 years, but they are based on a simulation study that was restricted due to computer limitations and that modeled item parameters from estimates of ACT and ASVAB tests from 1987 and 1984, respectively. Further, suggested …
“It Was Just Really Hard to Be Pregnant in a Smaller Town …”
Teenage pregnancy has a history of being a "social problem" in the United States, with there being higher rates in rural communities. Social support, a contributor to improving mental health outcomes, can significantly impact a teenager's pregnancy and parenting experience. Using House's (1981) social support framework, this study explores the teenagers' perceptions of how their rural community reacted and responded to them as pregnant and parent…
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…
Identifying accurate pro‐choice and pro‐life identity labels in Spanish
No singular Spanish abortion identity label encapsulates abortion beliefs; however, there are several viable options. Just as the debate remains ongoing about pro-choice and pro-life as accurate indicators of abortion beliefs in English, we must also consider that identity is more complex than binary labels in Spanish
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…
Abortion Stigma
Prior to and since the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. state laws have endorsed individuals surveilling and punishing those associated with abortion care. This practice presents an urgent need to understand the characteristics of abortion stigma, particularly the perspectives of individuals with stigmatizing beliefs. To examine the concept and characteristics of abortion stigma, we interviewed 55 individuals about whether they thought there should be c…
Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age
Objective The aim of this study is to examine how situational abortion attitudes differ when including additional context related to the gestational age of the pregnancy. Method Ordinary Least Squares Regression models predicting abortion attitudes across four different sets of abortion attitude questions, using data collected from an online panel weighted to match U.S. benchmarks. Results Later gestational ages are associated with less support f…
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…
Medicine and abortion
Psychology (39 works) · Abortion (35 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (32 works) · Pregnancy (28 works) · Political science (27 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Medicine (21 works)