Patricia A Parmelee
Biographic Data
| ID | 764943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Parmelee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Parmelee |
| SIGNATURE | PARMELEE P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0655-6478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Mediating Role of Anger and Anxiety in the Association of Social Support with Mobility Among Middle-Age and Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis
Although limited by their cross-sectional nature, the findings suggest that at least part of the association of social support with mobility may be explained by the role of support in alleviating anxiety
Communication Modalities, Personality Traits, and Change in Perceived Control Over Social Life Following Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Older Americans
We examined associations between change in social contact communication modalities and change in perceived control over social life (PCOSL) following onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older Americans and evaluated the extent to which associations were moderated by personality. Data were from the 2016 and 2020 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Multivariate ordinary least squares regression analyses were computed adjusting for baseline P…
Momentary Associations of Osteoarthritis Pain and Affect: Depression as Moderator
Results confirm previous work on the relation of chronic pain with both global depressive symptoms and short-term affect. This research further demonstrates a unique moderating role of depression on the association of momentary pain with NA and suggests that the causal path may be stronger from pain to affect than vice versa
Momentary Reports of Fatigue Predict Physical Activity Level: Wrist, Waist, and Combined Accelerometry
Objective: Fatigue is commonly reported by persons with osteoarthritis (OA) and predicts worse functioning and decreased activity. The current research used a combination of wrist and waist accelerometry along with experience sampling methodology to examine the relationship between reports of fatigue and subsequent physical activity among older adults with knee OA. Method: Two hundred one participants completed an interview followed by a 1-week p…
Feelings of Usefulness to Others Predict Active Coping With Osteoarthritis Knee Pain
Usefulness predicted active OA pain coping, suggesting that it may promote well-being among persons with chronic pain. Further study investigating perceived usefulness in promoting positive health behaviors is needed
Geographic Region Matters in the Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders Among Black Older Adults
Findings suggest that whereas, in general, perceived racial discrimination is a risk factor for poor mental health among older Blacks, this association may differ by geographic region. Additional research examining reasons for this variation is needed
Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative: A Pilot Study of Enhanced Community Outreach in Rural Areas
PURPOSE: Access, enrollment, and engagement with primary and specialty health care services present significant challenges for rural populations worldwide. The Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative evaluated an innovative outreach intervention combining motivational interviewing, patient navigation, and health services education to promote utilization of the United States Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VA) by veterans who live in r…
Pain Variability and Its Predictors in Older Adults: Depression, Cognition, Functional Status, Health, and Pain
Pain variability is an important characteristic that is not given enough emphasis in current literature. Understanding pain variability may give insight into older adults' experiences with both pain and depression, and may essentially improve quality of care and quality of life
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
Pain, Disability, and Depression in Osteoarthritis: Effects of Race and Sex
Race and sex influence affective response to OA pain and disability in complex ways, with African American men showing paradoxical effects. Further research is needed to elucidate mechanisms of this moderation effect
Affective States in Normal and Depressed Older People
Ratings on a 10-item affect checklist yielding composite positive affect and negative affect scores were made daily for 30 days by older people in residential care: 19 were diagnosed as having major depression, 21 had minor depression, and 37 were without psychiatric diagnosis ("normal"). Mean levels of positive affect were highest in normal people and least in those with major depression; negative affect was lowest in normal ones and highest in …
Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly
Sex Role Identity, Role Performance and Marital Satisfaction of Newly-Wed Couples
This research examined sex role identity as a mediator of marital role performance and satisfaction in early marriage. Sex role identity (indexed by the Bem Sex Role Inventory), performance of instrumental and expressive marital roles, and marital satisfaction were assessed among 110 newly married couples. Results confirmed hypothesized congruence of sex role identity and instrumental role performance among men, but not women. Similar effects eme…
Spouse versus other family caregivers: Psychological impact on impaired aged
This correlational study examined negative affect among impaired aged who live with and receive care from either a spouse or a younger relative. Covariance analyses, controlling for group differences in age, health, and functional disability, soundly disconfirmed hypotheses that spouses' care would prove less stressful than would that of children. In fact, the reverse obtained for measures of number of expressed worries, negative affect toward ca…
Protective Services for the Elderly: Do We Deal Competently with Incompetence
Protective services are conceptualized as legal safeguards for aged individuals who are incapable of prudent financial or personal self‐determination. Despite this protective intent, conservatorship, personal guardianship, and involuntary hospitalization may in fact work against elders' best interests as a result of their limitation of avenues for expressing autonomy and self‐worth. In this article, psychological theories of effectance or control…
Geographic Region Matters in the Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders Among Black Older Adults
Findings suggest that whereas, in general, perceived racial discrimination is a risk factor for poor mental health among older Blacks, this association may differ by geographic region. Additional research examining reasons for this variation is needed
Affective States in Normal and Depressed Older People
Ratings on a 10-item affect checklist yielding composite positive affect and negative affect scores were made daily for 30 days by older people in residential care: 19 were diagnosed as having major depression, 21 had minor depression, and 37 were without psychiatric diagnosis ("normal"). Mean levels of positive affect were highest in normal people and least in those with major depression; negative affect was lowest in normal ones and highest in …
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 …
Sex Role Identity, Role Performance and Marital Satisfaction of Newly-Wed Couples
This research examined sex role identity as a mediator of marital role performance and satisfaction in early marriage. Sex role identity (indexed by the Bem Sex Role Inventory), performance of instrumental and expressive marital roles, and marital satisfaction were assessed among 110 newly married couples. Results confirmed hypothesized congruence of sex role identity and instrumental role performance among men, but not women. Similar effects eme…
Protective Services for the Elderly: Do We Deal Competently with Incompetence
Protective services are conceptualized as legal safeguards for aged individuals who are incapable of prudent financial or personal self‐determination. Despite this protective intent, conservatorship, personal guardianship, and involuntary hospitalization may in fact work against elders' best interests as a result of their limitation of avenues for expressing autonomy and self‐worth. In this article, psychological theories of effectance or control…
Spouse versus other family caregivers: Psychological impact on impaired aged
This correlational study examined negative affect among impaired aged who live with and receive care from either a spouse or a younger relative. Covariance analyses, controlling for group differences in age, health, and functional disability, soundly disconfirmed hypotheses that spouses' care would prove less stressful than would that of children. In fact, the reverse obtained for measures of number of expressed worries, negative affect toward ca…
Sex Role Identity, Role Performance and Marital Satisfaction of Newly-Wed Couples
This research examined sex role identity as a mediator of marital role performance and satisfaction in early marriage. Sex role identity (indexed by the Bem Sex Role Inventory), performance of instrumental and expressive marital roles, and marital satisfaction were assessed among 110 newly married couples. Results confirmed hypothesized congruence of sex role identity and instrumental role performance among men, but not women. Similar effects eme…
Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly
Affective States in Normal and Depressed Older People
Ratings on a 10-item affect checklist yielding composite positive affect and negative affect scores were made daily for 30 days by older people in residential care: 19 were diagnosed as having major depression, 21 had minor depression, and 37 were without psychiatric diagnosis ("normal"). Mean levels of positive affect were highest in normal people and least in those with major depression; negative affect was lowest in normal ones and highest in …
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
Pain, Disability, and Depression in Osteoarthritis: Effects of Race and Sex
Race and sex influence affective response to OA pain and disability in complex ways, with African American men showing paradoxical effects. Further research is needed to elucidate mechanisms of this moderation effect
Pain Variability and Its Predictors in Older Adults: Depression, Cognition, Functional Status, Health, and Pain
Pain variability is an important characteristic that is not given enough emphasis in current literature. Understanding pain variability may give insight into older adults' experiences with both pain and depression, and may essentially improve quality of care and quality of life
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 …
Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative: A Pilot Study of Enhanced Community Outreach in Rural Areas
PURPOSE: Access, enrollment, and engagement with primary and specialty health care services present significant challenges for rural populations worldwide. The Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative evaluated an innovative outreach intervention combining motivational interviewing, patient navigation, and health services education to promote utilization of the United States Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VA) by veterans who live in r…
Feelings of Usefulness to Others Predict Active Coping With Osteoarthritis Knee Pain
Usefulness predicted active OA pain coping, suggesting that it may promote well-being among persons with chronic pain. Further study investigating perceived usefulness in promoting positive health behaviors is needed
Geographic Region Matters in the Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders Among Black Older Adults
Findings suggest that whereas, in general, perceived racial discrimination is a risk factor for poor mental health among older Blacks, this association may differ by geographic region. Additional research examining reasons for this variation is needed
Momentary Reports of Fatigue Predict Physical Activity Level: Wrist, Waist, and Combined Accelerometry
Objective: Fatigue is commonly reported by persons with osteoarthritis (OA) and predicts worse functioning and decreased activity. The current research used a combination of wrist and waist accelerometry along with experience sampling methodology to examine the relationship between reports of fatigue and subsequent physical activity among older adults with knee OA. Method: Two hundred one participants completed an interview followed by a 1-week p…
Momentary Associations of Osteoarthritis Pain and Affect: Depression as Moderator
Results confirm previous work on the relation of chronic pain with both global depressive symptoms and short-term affect. This research further demonstrates a unique moderating role of depression on the association of momentary pain with NA and suggests that the causal path may be stronger from pain to affect than vice versa
Communication Modalities, Personality Traits, and Change in Perceived Control Over Social Life Following Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Older Americans
We examined associations between change in social contact communication modalities and change in perceived control over social life (PCOSL) following onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older Americans and evaluated the extent to which associations were moderated by personality. Data were from the 2016 and 2020 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Multivariate ordinary least squares regression analyses were computed adjusting for baseline P…
The Mediating Role of Anger and Anxiety in the Association of Social Support with Mobility Among Middle-Age and Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis
Although limited by their cross-sectional nature, the findings suggest that at least part of the association of social support with mobility may be explained by the role of support in alleviating anxiety
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Osteoarthritis (5 works) · Alternative medicine (4 works) · Depression (economics (4 works)