Publications

Three chapters of this thesis have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Chapter 3 was published in Aging & Mental Health, Chapter 6 has been published in Preventive Medicine, and Chapter 7 was published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Monaghan, C., Avila-Palencia, I., Han, S. D., & McHugh Power, J. (2024). Procrastination, depressive symptomatology, and loneliness in later life. Aging & Mental Health, 28(9), 1270–1277. 10.1080/13607863.2024.2345781.

Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2025). Procrastination and preventive health-care in the older U.S. population. Preventive Medicine, 190, 108185. 10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108185.

Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, Kelly, M, & McHugh Power, J. (2026). Procrastination as a Marker of Cognitive Decline: Evidence from Longitudinal Transitions in the Older Adult Population. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 18(1), e70245. 10.1002/dad2.70245.

Articles to be submitted

Monaghan, C., Gartlan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (In review). Do Perceptions of Remaining Life Shape Procrastination? Evidence from Latent Class and Bayesian Models.

Monaghan, C., de Lara, I. A. R., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (In review). Goodness of fit diagnostics for discrete time Markov models of cognitive transitions.

Sirois, F., and Monaghan, C. (In writing). Does Personality Influence How we see Others?

Conference presentations

Monaghan, C., & Power, J. M. (2023). Age, procrastination, depressive symptomatology, and loneliness: a structural equation modelling approach. Irish Gerontological Society 70th Annual and Scientific Meeting. Galway, Ireland.

Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2024). Procrastination as a risk factor for poor health in older adults. 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society. Cascais, Portugal. - Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2024). Modelling the Non-linear Associations between Age and Health: Implications for Care. Irish Gerontological Society 71st Annual and Scientific Meeting. Athlone, Ireland.

Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2025). The Statistical Power of Alcohol Consumption Measures. 45th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland. Galway, Ireland.

Monaghan, C., Gartlan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2025). The Role of Temporal Orientation and Subjective Remaining Life in Procrastination. 12th International Conference on Procrastination Research. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Technical publications

Monaghan, C., de Andrade Moral, R, & McHugh Power, J. (2024). LWC2022: Langa-Weir Classification of Cognitive Function for 2022 HRS Data. R package version 1.0.0. c-monaghan.github.io/lwc2022/