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Monica A. Longmore (Seff) (Professor) received her Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University in 1991. Her specialties
are social psychology and family relations. She has done research in the area of self-concept development, and most recently
has focused on adolescence, dimensions of self-conceptions, and fertility-related outcomes. Her work on self-concept development
links social structures and personality by illustrating how relationship contexts (e.g., peer groups, dating relationships,
family background, etc.) influence social psychological processes (e.g., psychological centrality, reflected appraisals, social
comparisons, self-attributions), and individual outcomes such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, and depression. Dr. Longmore’s
recent examination of the relationship between self-esteem, depression, and adolescent sexual debut shows that depression
is a stronger predictor of adolescent sexual debut than is self-esteem.
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