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Jennifer L. Rudolph
Researcher at Bowling Green State University
Publications - 6
Citations - 2049
Jennifer L. Rudolph is an academic researcher from Bowling Green State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adolescent health & Population. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1875 citations.
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Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
TL;DR: In this paper, a symbolic interactionist perspective on desistance is developed as a counterpoint to Sampson and Laub's theory of informal social control, and life history narratives are used to illustrate the perspective.
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Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescents' Sexual Onset:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether self-esteem and depressive symptoms influence sexual onset when important controls such as age, dating, race, and income are examined, and found that depressive symptoms, when entered simultaneously, exert a greater effect than selfesteem on sexual onset.
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Delinquency, identity, and women's involvement in relationship violence*
TL;DR: Data suggest that there may be a social learning basis for female as well as male expressions of violence, and women's scores on the Conflict Tactics scale were related to adolescent and adult identities.
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Race, Crime, and the American Dream:
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that African Americans maintain a stronger commitment to the American dream than do Whites, but the nature of its influence on behavior offers little support for social control theory among either Whites or Blacks.
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Contraceptive self-efficacy: does it influence adolescents' contraceptive use?
TL;DR: It is found that adolescents who are female, older, live with step-parents, and whose mothers approve of contraceptive use report higher contraceptive self-efficacy, while adolescents whose mothers did not complete high school report lower contraceptive Selfefficacy.