Happiness and health

A Steptoe - Annual review of public health, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Research into the relationship between happiness and health is developing rapidly,
exploring the possibility that impaired happiness is not only a consequence of ill-health but …

The heart's content: the association between positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular health.

JK Boehm, LD Kubzansky - Psychological bulletin, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB)
and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between physical and mental health: A mediation analysis

J Ohrnberger, E Fichera, M Sutton - Social science & medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a strong link between mental health and physical health, but little is known about
the pathways from one to the other. We analyse the direct and indirect effects of past mental …

Happy people live longer: Subjective well‐being contributes to health and longevity

E Diener, MY Chan - Applied Psychology: Health and Well …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Seven types of evidence are reviewed that indicate that high subjective well‐being (such as
life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism, and positive emotions) causes …

Psychological well-being and physical health: Associations, mechanisms, and future directions

R Hernandez, SM Bassett, SW Boughton… - Emotion …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
A paradigm shift in public health and medicine has broadened the field from a singular focus
on the ill effects of negative states and psychopathology to an expanded view that examines …

[HTML][HTML] Does happiness itself directly affect mortality? The prospective UK Million Women Study

B Liu, S Floud, K Pirie, J Green, R Peto, V Beral - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Poor health can cause unhappiness and poor health increases mortality.
Previous reports of reduced mortality associated with happiness could be due to the …

Don't worry, be happy: positive affect and reduced 10-year incident coronary heart disease: the Canadian Nova Scotia Health Survey

KW Davidson, E Mostofsky, W Whang - European heart journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Aims Positive affect is believed to predict cardiovascular health independent of negative
affect. We examined whether higher levels of positive affect are associated with a lower risk …

Psicología y COVID-19: un análisis desde los procesos psicológicos básicos

PEV Villarroel - Cuadernos de neuropsicología, 2020 - dialnet.unirioja.es
El COVID-19 surgió recientemente en Wuhan (China) y rápidamente se extendió a todo el
mundo. Sus consecuencias en un corto tiempo han sido desastrosas a nivel mundial en …

A prospective study of positive psychological well-being and coronary heart disease.

JK Boehm, C Peterson, M Kivimaki… - Health …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Research suggests that positive psychological well-being is associated with
cardiovascular health. However, much of this research uses elderly samples and has not …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of physical and mental health in the older population

J Ohrnberger, E Fichera, M Sutton - The Journal of the Economics of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mental and physical aspects are both integral to health but little is known about the dynamic
relationship between them. We consider the dynamic relationship between mental and …