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Ronna C. Turner
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Professor
Also affiliated: University of Arkansas System (2022); Arkansas Department of Education (2016–2025); Indiana University Bloomington (2024); Methodist University (2024–2025)
Faculty Researcher
18 h-index
92 pubs
1,193 cited
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Ronna C. Turner's research program investigates public knowledge and attitudes regarding abortion laws and legality in the United States. Her work has examined how factors such as political party affiliation, abortion identity, and knowledge of landmark legal decisions, including Roe v. Wade and the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, influence these attitudes. Turner has also explored the impact of fetal development markers on opinions about abortion legality and investigated attitudes toward illegal abortion, including support for various punishments.
Her research methodologies often involve questionnaire design and translation frameworks for health research. Turner has published on participant-driven salient beliefs concerning abortion, which have implications for how abortion attitudes are measured. Her scholarship includes a significant body of work on the stigma associated with abortion, focusing on perceptions of responsibility and punishment for illegal abortions. With an h-index of 18 and over 1,174 citations across 92 publications, Turner leads a research group at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and has collaborated extensively with colleagues within the institution, including Wen-Jo Lo, Elizabeth A. Keiffer, Jennifer Reimers, and James D. Weese.
Metrics
- h-index: 18
- Publications: 92
- Citations: 1,193
Selected Publications
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A Multi‐Study Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Government's Role in Regulating Abortion Before and After the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> Decision (2026)
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U.S. men's views about women's and men's agency in the abortion decision-making process (2025)
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Did the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision Influence People’s Attitudes Toward Abortion Legality Across Abortion Circumstances and Weeks’ Gestation? (2025)
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Impacts of DIF Item Balance and Effect Size Incorporation With the Rasch Tree (2025)
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How Familism and Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Shape Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion Among Latinx and non-Latinx Adults in the United States (2025)
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(Re)Conceptualizing abortion attitudes through the lens of Abortion Tolerance (2025)
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Analysis of Treatment Effect Indices Used in Counseling Single Case Research (2025)
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English- and Spanish-speaking U.S. adults’ perceptions of the most common reasons for abortion: a study of open-ended data before and after Dobbs v. Jackson (2025)
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Assessing the impact of the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> decision on abortion attitudes by abortion identity labels: a mixed-methods longitudinal study (2025)
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U.S. adults’ attitudes toward abortion as a (non)essential procedure during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
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Examining public opinion on endorsed punishments for illegal abortion by abortion legality and abortion‐restrictive states before <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> (2025)
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“Imagine You Are a Film Director...”: Using Hypotheticals to Elicit People’s Implicit Attitudes about Abortion (2025)
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“Distinct and Separate Issues”: Examining <scp>US</scp> Adults' Attitudes Toward Abortion During <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 (2025)
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Exploring the Association between Measures of Cross-Culturalism and Abortion Attitudes Amongst Latinxs in the United States (2025)
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Associations Between U.S. Adults’ Abortion Attitudes and Abortion-Related Helping Intentions (2025)
Federal Grants 1 $3,000,000 total
NSF
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Aug 2023 - Jul 2028
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Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Brandon L. Crawford
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
37 shared publications
- Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
- Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches
- Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality?
- People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> decision
- An exploratory examination of attitudes toward illegal abortion in the U.S. through endorsement of various punishments
Showing 5 of 37 shared publications
Kristen N. Jozkowski
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
34 shared publications
- Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
- Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches
- Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality?
- People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> decision
- An exploratory examination of attitudes toward illegal abortion in the U.S. through endorsement of various punishments
Showing 5 of 34 shared publications
Wen‐Juo Lo
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
31 shared publications
In database
- Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
- Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches
- Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality?
- People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> decision
- Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
Showing 5 of 31 shared publications
Xiana Bueno
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
12 shared publications
- Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality?
- People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> decision
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding the Disconnection between Perceptions of Abortion Acceptability and Support for <i>Roe v. Wade</i> among US Adults
- Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States
- People’s perception of changes in their abortion attitudes over the life course: A mixed methods approach
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
Lucrecia Mena‐Meléndez
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
9 shared publications
- An exploratory examination of attitudes toward illegal abortion in the U.S. through endorsement of various punishments
- Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”
- Examining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Pregnancy and Fetal Development Timing and Support for Abortion Bans
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Translation Challenges in Multi-Language Research: Assessing How Spanish-Speaking Adults in the U.S. Interpret the Terms <i>Pro-Vida</i> (<i>Pro-Life</i>) and <i>Pro-Elección</i> (<i>Pro-Choice</i>)
- Is news consumption related to abortion attitudes? An exploratory study with a nationally representative sample of US adults
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Danny Valdez
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
7 shared publications
- Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches
- Applicability of a Salient Belief Elicitation to Measure Abortion Beliefs
- Assessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes
- Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US*
- Is news consumption related to abortion attitudes? An exploratory study with a nationally representative sample of US adults
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Kathryn J. LaRoche
Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
7 shared publications
- Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality?
- Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding the Disconnection between Perceptions of Abortion Acceptability and Support for <i>Roe v. Wade</i> among US Adults
- Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States
- People’s perception of changes in their abortion attitudes over the life course: A mixed methods approach
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
María Montenegro
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
5 shared publications
- Translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches as a component of health research and practice: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and questionnaire design approaches
- Assessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes
- Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US*
- Using a decentering framework to create English/Spanish surveys about abortion: Insights into comparative survey research (CSR) for new survey development and recommendations for optimal use
- “Distinct and Separate Issues”: Examining <scp>US</scp> Adults' Attitudes Toward Abortion During <scp>COVID</scp>‐19
Elizabeth A. Keiffer
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
4 shared publications
In database
- Demographic comparisons on data quality measures in web-based surveys
- Performance of Nonparametric Person-Fit Statistics with Unfolding versus Dominance Response Models
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
James D. Weese
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
3 shared publications
In database
- Implementing a Standardized Effect Size in the POLYSIBTEST Procedure
- Reevaluating the SIBTEST Classification Heuristics for Dichotomous Differential Item Functioning
- The Development of a Standardized Effect Size for the SIBTEST Procedure
Allison J. Ames
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
3 shared publications
In database
- Implementing a Standardized Effect Size in the POLYSIBTEST Procedure
- Reevaluating the SIBTEST Classification Heuristics for Dichotomous Differential Item Functioning
- The Development of a Standardized Effect Size for the SIBTEST Procedure
Xinya Liang
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
3 shared publications
In database
- Implementing a Standardized Effect Size in the POLYSIBTEST Procedure
- Reevaluating the SIBTEST Classification Heuristics for Dichotomous Differential Item Functioning
- The Development of a Standardized Effect Size for the SIBTEST Procedure
Megan Simmons
Missouri Foundation for Health (US)
3 shared publications
- Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States
- Perceptions of abortion access across the United States prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision: Results from a national survey
- Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Jennifer Reimers
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
3 shared publications
In database
- Performance of Nonparametric Person-Fit Statistics with Unfolding versus Dominance Response Models
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
Jorge N. Tendeiro
Hiroshima University (JP)
3 shared publications
- Performance of Nonparametric Person-Fit Statistics with Unfolding versus Dominance Response Models
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
- The Effects of Aberrant Responding on Model-Fit Assuming Different Underlying Response Processes
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