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de    MICHAEL L. SACHS msachs@temple.edu
para    SPORTPSY@listserv.temple.edu
data    14 de maio de 2011 17:07
assunto    Fwd: Prospective Study of Positive Psychological Well-Being & Coronary Heart Disease

Greetings all.  FYI.  Thanks to Ken Pope for this info. Carpe diem, Michael
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From: Ken Pope <ken@kenpope.com>
Date: Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Subject: Prospective Study of Positive Psychological Well-Being & Coronary Heart Disease

The new issue of *Health Psychology* includes an article: "A Prospective Study of Positive Psychological Well-Being and Coronary Heart Disease."

The authors are Julia K. Boehm , Christopher Peterson, Mika Kivimaki, & Laura Kubzansky.

Here’s how the article begins:

A growing body of evidence suggests that psychological health may influence physical health. Most of the research to date has focused on psychological ill-being, with less research examining whether and how positive psychological well-being influences physical health outcomes.

Because psychological ill-being and well-being are not direct opposites of one another, the absence of negative functioning need not imply the presence of positive functioning (Ryff & Singer, 1998).

Thus, evidence for associations between psychological ill-being and physical health do not indicate whether positive psychological well- being is associated with physical health, or if such associations are independent of psychological ill-being.

The present research focuses on positive psychological well-being and its association with coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the leading causes of death in the United States and worldwide (Mathers & Loncar, 2006; Xu, Kochanek, Murphy, & Tejada-Vera, 2010).

Here’s how the Discussion section starts:

The current research investigated the association of two different measures of positive psychological well-being--emotional vitality and optimism--with incident CHD in a middle-aged cohort.

Higher levels of well-being were consistently associated with reduced risk of CHD over a mean follow-up period of 5 person-years.

Notably, the association between well-being and CHD was not explained by health behaviors or biological risk factors, even though individuals with high well-being were healthier with respect to both.

Moreover, the association between well-being and CHD was largely maintained after accounting for ill-being.

Similar to the findings with well-being, a relatively modest effect of ill-being on CHD risk was found in this sample, regardless of which ill- being measure was used.

Here’s how the article concludes:

In summary, this prospective investigation of middle-aged men and women suggests that positive psychological well-being reduces risk of incident CHD, even when accounting for cardiovascular risk factors and ill-being.

Although more work remains to be done regarding the pathways linking well-being to CHD, this investigation indicates that positive psychological well-being is not only an important outcome in its own right, but may have far-reaching consequences for cardiovascular health.

The author note provides the following contact information for comments, question, or reprint requests: Julia K. Boehm, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215; Email: <jboehm@hsph.harvard.edu>.

Ken Pope

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