R S Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 65680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R S Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | R S |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2563-4996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating Financial Storms: Does Dyadic Coping Buffer the Association Between Daily Financial Stress and Emotional Well-Being
Church Leaders Share and Implement Solution-Focused Health Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Alabama
The methods and baseline characteristics of a multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluating mindfulness-based relapse prevention in conjunction with peer support to improve adherence to medication…
This study is innovative in several ways including combining MBRP and peer support, addressing comorbid mental health issues among individuals with OUD, utilizing manualized protocols, and evaluating of both physiological and self-reported measures in assessing cortisol reactivity as a predictor of relapse and treatment outcomes
Investigating the Effects of Discrimination Experiences on Everyday Metamemory Accuracy
These findings add to our understanding of how psychosocial stress in the form of daily discrimination experiences may impair metamemory processes contributing to increased subjective cognitive complaints. Future research should consider the contribution of daily experiences of discrimination across the lifespan to poor cognitive outcomes in later life
An Exploration of Spiritual Well-being Among Homeless People: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis
Pet Ownership and Mental and Physical Health in Older White and Black Males and Females
Pet ownership literature remains mixed regarding associations with mental and physical health outcomes among older adults. The present study investigates the relationship between pet ownership and depression, health, and physical activity in an older adult sample balanced by sex (male/female), race (White/Black), and urban/rural status. Participants were adults aged 65+ recruited between 1999 and 2001 in the University of Alabama at Birmingham St…
Community Perspectives and Environmental Justice Issues in an Unincorporated Black Township
Through each era, the southeastern United States was and continues to be an epicenter for industrial companies to establish factories and plants. Though this development attracts economic gain for the companies and surrounding areas, low-income and predominantly Black communities bear the brunt of the environmental consequences while frequently remaining stagnant economically. This qualitative, community-based participatory research study grew ou…
Homeless people’s trait mindfulness and their resilience – a mediation test on the role of inner peace and hope
The development of resilience is important for homeless people to maintain health and wellbeing. Personal trait mindfulness has received researchers' burgeoning interest regarding its association with one’s resilience. However, very few studies investigate this relationship among homeless people. The current research initiated this exploration and further examined the cognitive (i.e. hopeful thinking) and emotional (i.e. a feeling of inner peace)…
Investigating the applicability of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement to a Southern sample of African American adults
Established bereavement and grief theory is often created by non-Hispanic White researchers and normed in non-Hispanic White populations. However, this can fail to capture the diversity of the grief experience. We used semi-structured interviews with 14 middle-to-older aged African Americans to investigate whether responses to loss were consistent with the well-established Two-Track Model of Bereavement. African Americans were found engage with t…
Minority stress process among older Black Americans: The Role of Age, Perceived Discrimination, and Anxiety
Objective: Prolonged experiences of discrimination can be a major source of physical and health-related stress, particularly in older Black Americans. However, there is limited information on the relation between discrimination and anxiety, particularly within the context of other constructs that influence the manifestation of anxiety symptoms. For example, several studies have suggested that ethnic identification may provide psychological and so…
A Comprehensive Psychometric Examination of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Heterosexuals (LGB-Kash)
Heterosexual attitudes toward individuals with other sexual orientations and identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, etc. (LGBTQIA+), have been conceptualized as multidimensional and wide-ranging. With the objective of measuring these attitudes, Worthington and colleagues developed the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Heterosexuals (LGB-KASH). In this article, 540 college students we…
Staff Knowledge and Perceptions of Sexuality and Dementia of Older Adults in Nursing Homes
Staffs' knowledge of sexuality and dementia, desire for guidance in "managing" sexual expression, and neutral attitudes toward late-life sexuality supports the need for educational interventions on sexuality and dementia in NH
Trouble Won't Last Always: Religious Coping and Meaning in the Stress Process
Meaning-based coping, particularly religious coping, might lead to positive emotions in stressful situations. Religious coping is common among older adults. We explored the experience of religious coping, organizational religious affiliation, and one's relationship with God among older adults with advanced chronic illness and their caregivers. Research questions included: How is religious coping experienced in this context? How is a relationship …
Vulnerability of Older Latino and Asian Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency
OBJECTIVES: To explore the implications of limited English proficiency (LEP) for disparities in health status and healthcare service use of older Latino and Asian immigrants. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional analysis of existing secondary data. SETTING: The 2007 California Health Interview Survey. PARTICIPANTS: Latino and Asian immigrants aged 60 and older (n=1,745) were divided into three language proficiency groups: older adults who have LEP, are profic…
Limited English proficiency as a barrier to mental health service use: A study of Latino and Asian immigrants with psychiatric disorders
Taking a Marxist Look at the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families: Practice Gains
Contemporary reforms of social work assessment practice and policy, best evidenced by the 2001 introduction of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, principally aimed at ensuring consistent and safer outcomes for children and their families, has resulted in a state of practice paralysis resulting in an over-zealous emphasis on assessment at the expense of intervention work. This paper argues that a sociological …
The Emergence Project: The Bush Soul
August 01 2005 The Emergence Project: The Bush Soul Rebecca Allen Rebecca Allen Avenida Icaria 134-2-1a, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.rebeccaallen.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Rebecca Allen Avenida Icaria 134-2-1a, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.rebeccaallen.com Online ISSN: 1530-9282 P…
End-of-Life Care and the Effects of Bereavement on Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
BACKGROUND: Although family caregiving has been intensively studied in the past decade, little attention has been paid to the impact of end-of-life care on caregivers who are family members of persons with dementia or to the caregivers' responses to the death of the patient. METHODS: Using standardized assessment instruments and structured questions, we assessed the type and intensity of care provided by 217 family caregivers to persons with deme…
Widowhood and Spirituality: Coping Responses to Bereavement
Nearly half of women age 65 or older are widows and nearly 70% of these women live alone. Because older women are three times more likely than their male counterparts to be widowed, widowhood has been labeled a primarily female phenomenon. This review article has two aims: (a) to discuss the impact of widowhood on the lives of older women and (b) to discuss how religion and spirituality may be used as coping methods for conjugal loss. After revie…
My Recaller is on Vacation: Discourse Analysis of Nursing-Home Residents With Dementia
The purpose of this study was to assess discourse profiles of nursing-home residents in the early, middle, and late stages of dementia. Sixty transcripts of conversations between nursing-home residents with dementia and their nursing aides were analyzed with a discourse analysis schema. The results suggest that discourse level and utterance level characteristics in conversations were affected by the stage of dementia in different ways. Utterance …
Family Issues in End-of-life Decision Making and End-of-life Care
Family members are involved in every aspect of end-of-life decision making and care. The present article reviews family involvement in providing care during chronic and terminal illness, in discussions and plans for advance directives, in decision making during chronic illness, in executing advance directives and making critical decisions near the end of life, and the long-lasting effects of caregiving and difficult decisions on the family member…
Age Equivalence in Feeling-of-Knowing Experiences
Three studies investigated potential age-related differences in the reliance of healthy young and older adults on trace-access and inferential mechanisms in making feeling-of-knowing (FOK) judgments. In Experiment 1 young and older adults attempted to retrieve referents of rare-word definitions presented in a self-paced questionnaire. Recall failures were followed by FOK ratings and a report of partial knowledge of referent characteristics. Gamma…
Self-Reports on Memory Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of the Oldest Old: Relation to Current, Prospective, and Retrospective Performance
Self-evaluation of memory performance, one aspect of metamemory, may be an important indicator of concurrent, retrospective, or future decline in memory functioning. The relationships among self-evaluations, cognition, and outcome were investigated in the OCTO study, a longitudinal, population-based panel of the oldest old. Using concurrent data, results indicated that overall cognitive ability, depression, gender, and education were associated w…
Minority stress process among older Black Americans: The Role of Age, Perceived Discrimination, and Anxiety
Objective: Prolonged experiences of discrimination can be a major source of physical and health-related stress, particularly in older Black Americans. However, there is limited information on the relation between discrimination and anxiety, particularly within the context of other constructs that influence the manifestation of anxiety symptoms. For example, several studies have suggested that ethnic identification may provide psychological and so…
Trouble Won't Last Always: Religious Coping and Meaning in the Stress Process
Meaning-based coping, particularly religious coping, might lead to positive emotions in stressful situations. Religious coping is common among older adults. We explored the experience of religious coping, organizational religious affiliation, and one's relationship with God among older adults with advanced chronic illness and their caregivers. Research questions included: How is religious coping experienced in this context? How is a relationship …
Family Issues in End-of-life Decision Making and End-of-life Care
Family members are involved in every aspect of end-of-life decision making and care. The present article reviews family involvement in providing care during chronic and terminal illness, in discussions and plans for advance directives, in decision making during chronic illness, in executing advance directives and making critical decisions near the end of life, and the long-lasting effects of caregiving and difficult decisions on the family member…
My Recaller is on Vacation: Discourse Analysis of Nursing-Home Residents With Dementia
The purpose of this study was to assess discourse profiles of nursing-home residents in the early, middle, and late stages of dementia. Sixty transcripts of conversations between nursing-home residents with dementia and their nursing aides were analyzed with a discourse analysis schema. The results suggest that discourse level and utterance level characteristics in conversations were affected by the stage of dementia in different ways. Utterance …
Self-Reports on Memory Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of the Oldest Old: Relation to Current, Prospective, and Retrospective Performance
Self-evaluation of memory performance, one aspect of metamemory, may be an important indicator of concurrent, retrospective, or future decline in memory functioning. The relationships among self-evaluations, cognition, and outcome were investigated in the OCTO study, a longitudinal, population-based panel of the oldest old. Using concurrent data, results indicated that overall cognitive ability, depression, gender, and education were associated w…
Staff Knowledge and Perceptions of Sexuality and Dementia of Older Adults in Nursing Homes
Staffs' knowledge of sexuality and dementia, desire for guidance in "managing" sexual expression, and neutral attitudes toward late-life sexuality supports the need for educational interventions on sexuality and dementia in NH
Church Leaders Share and Implement Solution-Focused Health Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Alabama
Investigating the applicability of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement to a Southern sample of African American adults
Established bereavement and grief theory is often created by non-Hispanic White researchers and normed in non-Hispanic White populations. However, this can fail to capture the diversity of the grief experience. We used semi-structured interviews with 14 middle-to-older aged African Americans to investigate whether responses to loss were consistent with the well-established Two-Track Model of Bereavement. African Americans were found engage with t…
Self-Reports on Memory Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of the Oldest Old: Relation to Current, Prospective, and Retrospective Performance
Self-evaluation of memory performance, one aspect of metamemory, may be an important indicator of concurrent, retrospective, or future decline in memory functioning. The relationships among self-evaluations, cognition, and outcome were investigated in the OCTO study, a longitudinal, population-based panel of the oldest old. Using concurrent data, results indicated that overall cognitive ability, depression, gender, and education were associated w…
Age Equivalence in Feeling-of-Knowing Experiences
Three studies investigated potential age-related differences in the reliance of healthy young and older adults on trace-access and inferential mechanisms in making feeling-of-knowing (FOK) judgments. In Experiment 1 young and older adults attempted to retrieve referents of rare-word definitions presented in a self-paced questionnaire. Recall failures were followed by FOK ratings and a report of partial knowledge of referent characteristics. Gamma…
My Recaller is on Vacation: Discourse Analysis of Nursing-Home Residents With Dementia
The purpose of this study was to assess discourse profiles of nursing-home residents in the early, middle, and late stages of dementia. Sixty transcripts of conversations between nursing-home residents with dementia and their nursing aides were analyzed with a discourse analysis schema. The results suggest that discourse level and utterance level characteristics in conversations were affected by the stage of dementia in different ways. Utterance …
Family Issues in End-of-life Decision Making and End-of-life Care
Family members are involved in every aspect of end-of-life decision making and care. The present article reviews family involvement in providing care during chronic and terminal illness, in discussions and plans for advance directives, in decision making during chronic illness, in executing advance directives and making critical decisions near the end of life, and the long-lasting effects of caregiving and difficult decisions on the family member…
End-of-Life Care and the Effects of Bereavement on Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
BACKGROUND: Although family caregiving has been intensively studied in the past decade, little attention has been paid to the impact of end-of-life care on caregivers who are family members of persons with dementia or to the caregivers' responses to the death of the patient. METHODS: Using standardized assessment instruments and structured questions, we assessed the type and intensity of care provided by 217 family caregivers to persons with deme…
Widowhood and Spirituality: Coping Responses to Bereavement
Nearly half of women age 65 or older are widows and nearly 70% of these women live alone. Because older women are three times more likely than their male counterparts to be widowed, widowhood has been labeled a primarily female phenomenon. This review article has two aims: (a) to discuss the impact of widowhood on the lives of older women and (b) to discuss how religion and spirituality may be used as coping methods for conjugal loss. After revie…
The Emergence Project: The Bush Soul
August 01 2005 The Emergence Project: The Bush Soul Rebecca Allen Rebecca Allen Avenida Icaria 134-2-1a, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.rebeccaallen.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Rebecca Allen Avenida Icaria 134-2-1a, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.rebeccaallen.com Online ISSN: 1530-9282 P…
Vulnerability of Older Latino and Asian Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency
OBJECTIVES: To explore the implications of limited English proficiency (LEP) for disparities in health status and healthcare service use of older Latino and Asian immigrants. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional analysis of existing secondary data. SETTING: The 2007 California Health Interview Survey. PARTICIPANTS: Latino and Asian immigrants aged 60 and older (n=1,745) were divided into three language proficiency groups: older adults who have LEP, are profic…
Limited English proficiency as a barrier to mental health service use: A study of Latino and Asian immigrants with psychiatric disorders
Taking a Marxist Look at the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families: Practice Gains
Contemporary reforms of social work assessment practice and policy, best evidenced by the 2001 introduction of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, principally aimed at ensuring consistent and safer outcomes for children and their families, has resulted in a state of practice paralysis resulting in an over-zealous emphasis on assessment at the expense of intervention work. This paper argues that a sociological …
Staff Knowledge and Perceptions of Sexuality and Dementia of Older Adults in Nursing Homes
Staffs' knowledge of sexuality and dementia, desire for guidance in "managing" sexual expression, and neutral attitudes toward late-life sexuality supports the need for educational interventions on sexuality and dementia in NH
Trouble Won't Last Always: Religious Coping and Meaning in the Stress Process
Meaning-based coping, particularly religious coping, might lead to positive emotions in stressful situations. Religious coping is common among older adults. We explored the experience of religious coping, organizational religious affiliation, and one's relationship with God among older adults with advanced chronic illness and their caregivers. Research questions included: How is religious coping experienced in this context? How is a relationship …
A Comprehensive Psychometric Examination of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Heterosexuals (LGB-Kash)
Heterosexual attitudes toward individuals with other sexual orientations and identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, etc. (LGBTQIA+), have been conceptualized as multidimensional and wide-ranging. With the objective of measuring these attitudes, Worthington and colleagues developed the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Heterosexuals (LGB-KASH). In this article, 540 college students we…
Homeless people’s trait mindfulness and their resilience – a mediation test on the role of inner peace and hope
The development of resilience is important for homeless people to maintain health and wellbeing. Personal trait mindfulness has received researchers' burgeoning interest regarding its association with one’s resilience. However, very few studies investigate this relationship among homeless people. The current research initiated this exploration and further examined the cognitive (i.e. hopeful thinking) and emotional (i.e. a feeling of inner peace)…
Investigating the applicability of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement to a Southern sample of African American adults
Established bereavement and grief theory is often created by non-Hispanic White researchers and normed in non-Hispanic White populations. However, this can fail to capture the diversity of the grief experience. We used semi-structured interviews with 14 middle-to-older aged African Americans to investigate whether responses to loss were consistent with the well-established Two-Track Model of Bereavement. African Americans were found engage with t…
Minority stress process among older Black Americans: The Role of Age, Perceived Discrimination, and Anxiety
Objective: Prolonged experiences of discrimination can be a major source of physical and health-related stress, particularly in older Black Americans. However, there is limited information on the relation between discrimination and anxiety, particularly within the context of other constructs that influence the manifestation of anxiety symptoms. For example, several studies have suggested that ethnic identification may provide psychological and so…
An Exploration of Spiritual Well-being Among Homeless People: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis
Pet Ownership and Mental and Physical Health in Older White and Black Males and Females
Pet ownership literature remains mixed regarding associations with mental and physical health outcomes among older adults. The present study investigates the relationship between pet ownership and depression, health, and physical activity in an older adult sample balanced by sex (male/female), race (White/Black), and urban/rural status. Participants were adults aged 65+ recruited between 1999 and 2001 in the University of Alabama at Birmingham St…
Community Perspectives and Environmental Justice Issues in an Unincorporated Black Township
Through each era, the southeastern United States was and continues to be an epicenter for industrial companies to establish factories and plants. Though this development attracts economic gain for the companies and surrounding areas, low-income and predominantly Black communities bear the brunt of the environmental consequences while frequently remaining stagnant economically. This qualitative, community-based participatory research study grew ou…
The methods and baseline characteristics of a multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluating mindfulness-based relapse prevention in conjunction with peer support to improve adherence to medication…
This study is innovative in several ways including combining MBRP and peer support, addressing comorbid mental health issues among individuals with OUD, utilizing manualized protocols, and evaluating of both physiological and self-reported measures in assessing cortisol reactivity as a predictor of relapse and treatment outcomes
Investigating the Effects of Discrimination Experiences on Everyday Metamemory Accuracy
These findings add to our understanding of how psychosocial stress in the form of daily discrimination experiences may impair metamemory processes contributing to increased subjective cognitive complaints. Future research should consider the contribution of daily experiences of discrimination across the lifespan to poor cognitive outcomes in later life
Navigating Financial Storms: Does Dyadic Coping Buffer the Association Between Daily Financial Stress and Emotional Well-Being
Church Leaders Share and Implement Solution-Focused Health Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Alabama
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Mental health (5 works)