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  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

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Carole K. Holahan is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and psychology. Their work frequently intersects subfields such as physiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, epidemiology, general health professions, and social psychology.

The primary research topics addressed by Holahan include sleep and related disorders, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, alcohol consumption and health effects, homelessness and social issues, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as aging and gerontology research and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Holahan has authored several papers in prominent academic journals. Some notable publications include:

  • Achievement Across the Life Span: Perspectives From the Terman Study of the Gifted (2020) in Gifted Child Quarterly
  • The effects of insomnia on older adults' quality of life and daily functioning: A mixed-methods study (2020) in Geriatric Nursing
  • Binge Drinking and Alcohol Problems Among Moderate Average-Level Drinkers (2022) in American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Sedentary Behaviors, Sleep, and Health-related Quality of Life in Middle-aged Adults (2021) in American Journal of Health Behavior
  • Living with a Smoker and Multiple Health-Risk Behaviors (2020) in Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Holahan collaborates frequently with a cohort of researchers, with notable co-authors including Charles J. Holahan, Gayle J. Acton, Sangdon Lim, Daniel A. Powers, and Darla M. Castelli.

Their publications often appear in journals such as Innovation in Aging, Substance Use & Misuse, Geriatric Nursing, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and American Journal of Health Behavior.

In recognition of professional contributions, Holahan was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Negative and positive components of psychological masculinity and femininity and their relationships to self-reports of neurotic and acting out behaviors.

    Janet T. Spence;Robert L. Helmreich;Carole K. Holahan

  • Stress generation, avoidance coping, and depressive symptoms: a 10-year model.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan

  • Self-efficacy, social support, and depression in aging: a longitudinal analysis.

    Carole K. Holahan;Charles J. Holahan

  • Conflict Between Major Life Roles: Women and Men in Dual Career Couples

    Carole K. Holahan;Lucia A. Gilbert

  • Social support, coping, and depressive symptoms in a late-middle-aged sample of patients reporting cardiac illness.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan

  • The relation of social support and coping to positive adaptation to breast cancer.

    Kathleen Dukes Holland;Carole K. Holahan

  • Drinking to cope, emotional distress and alcohol use and abuse: A ten-year model

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Ruth C. Cronkite

  • Social context, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms: an expanded model with cardiac patients.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan;Penny L. Brennan

  • The Gifted Group in Later Maturity

    Carole K. Holahan;Robert Richardson Sears;Lee Joseph Cronbach

  • Interrole conflict for working women: careers versus jobs.

    Carole K. Holahan;Lucia A. Gilbert

  • Resource loss, resource gain, and depressive symptoms: a 10-year model.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Ruth C. Cronkite

  • Adjustment in aging: The roles of life stress, hassles, and self-efficacy.

    Carole K. Holahan;Charles J. Holahan;Sharyn S. Belk

  • Psychological androgyny and sex role flexibility: A test of two hypotheses

    Robert L. Helmreich;Janet T. Spence;Carole K. Holahan

  • Drinking to cope and alcohol use and abuse in unipolar depression: a 10-year model.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Ruth C. Cronkite

  • Employee Involvement Management Practices, Work Stress, and Depression in Employees of a Human Services Residential Care Facility

    Kathleen S. Mackie;Carole K. Holahan;Nell H. Gottlieb

  • Life Stress, Hassles, and Self‐Efficacy in Aging: A Replication and Extension1

    Carole K. Holahan;Charles J. Holahan

  • Relation of life goals at age 70 to activity participation and health and psychological well-being among Terman's gifted men and women.

    Carole K. Holahan

  • Maternal Self-Discrepancies, Interrole Conflict, and Negative Affect among Married Professional Women with Children

    Lynn J. Polasky;Carole K Holahan

  • Late-life alcohol consumption and 20-year mortality.

    Charles J. Holahan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Penny L. Brennan;Carole K. Holahan

  • Desirable and undesirable masculine and feminine traits in counseling clients and unselected students

    Carole Kovalic Holahan;Janet T. Spence

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Holahan
Charles J. Holahan The University of Texas at Austin
Rudolf H. Moos
Rudolf H. Moos Stanford University
Ruth C. Cronkite
Ruth C. Cronkite Stanford University
Janet T. Spence
Janet T. Spence The University of Texas at Austin
Judith K. Ockene
Judith K. Ockene University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Bernice S. Moos
Bernice S. Moos United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Robert L. Helmreich
Robert L. Helmreich The University of Texas at Austin
Lee J. Cronbach
Lee J. Cronbach Stanford University
Alexandra Loukas
Alexandra Loukas The University of Texas at Austin

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