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    Church Leaders Share and Implement Solution-Focused Health Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Alabama

    Bridging the healthcare access gap and addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among rural-dwelling Black American adults residing in the Deep South require involvement of faith-based leaders in the community. T...

    Rebecca S. Allen, Alissa C. McIntyre in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2023)

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    An Exploration of Spiritual Well-being Among Homeless People: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis

    This study explored homeless people’s (N = 164) spiritual well-being (SWB) in relation to race, mental illness, physical disease, resilience, and trait mindfulness. The results of hierarchical regression analysis...

    Junfei Lu, Courtney A. Potts, Rebecca S. Allen in Journal of Religion and Health (2022)

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    HPV Misconceptions Among College Students: The Role of Health Literacy

    Human papillomavirus (HPV) is currently the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States, with potentially serious health consequences, including cervical cancer. Young adults are particularly...

    Amy E. Albright, Rebecca S. Allen in Journal of Community Health (2018)

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    A pilot study of prostate cancer knowledge among African American men and their health care advocates: implications for screening decisions

    Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second leading cause of cancer death in U.S. men [American Cancer Society (ACS)], most often affecting men age 50 and older. The study provides information about factors that influ...

    JoAnn S. Oliver PhD, Rebecca S. Allen, Morgan K. Eichorst in Cancer Causes & Control (2018)

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    Definition of Resilience

    Since 2011, research focusing on has burgeoned. In this literature, is conceptualized both as an individual difference characteristic or trait and as a dynamic co** process within the ever-changing phy...

    Rebecca S. Allen, Hillary R. Dorman, Helmi Henkin, Keisha D. Carden in Resilience in Aging (2018)

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    Prison Populations

    Rebecca S. Allen, Keisha D. Carden, Karen L. Salekin in Encyclopedia of Geropsychology (2017)

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    Ethical Issues in Geropsychology: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives

    Ethical practice and decision making in geropsychology require an awareness and understanding of the ethical issues and challenges that are commonly encountered when working with older adults in clinical and f...

    Shane S. Bush, Rebecca S. Allen, Andrew L. Heck in Psychological Injury and Law (2015)

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    Regularity of daily activities buffers the negative impact of low perceived control on affect

    The main objective of the present study was to examine the potential buffering effect of regularity of the duration of time spent on daily activities in the association between perceived control and affect in ...

    Caitlan A. Tighe, Natalie D. Dautovich, Rebecca S. Allen in Motivation and Emotion (2015)

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    Prison Populations

    Rebecca S. Allen, Keisha D. Carden, Karen L. Salekin in Encyclopedia of Geropsychology

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    Resilience: Definitions, Ambiguities, and Applications

    Resilience has been defined as a dynamic process of maintaining positive adaptation and effective co** strategies in the face of adversity (Luthar et al. 2000). Although most scholars and members of the gene...

    Rebecca S. Allen, Philip P. Haley, Grant M. Harris, Stevie N. Fowler in Resilience in Aging (2011)