The DOI matches its Crossref record; 49 of the 51 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic cohorts of men and women
Open accessAbstract
Significance: Optimism is a psychological attribute characterized as the general expectation that good things will happen, or the belief that the future will be favorable because one can control important outcomes. Previous studies reported that more optimistic individuals are less likely to suffer from chronic diseases and die prematurely. Our results further suggest that optimism is specifically related to 11 to 15% longer life span, on average, and to greater odds of achieving “exceptional longevity,” that is, living to the age of 85 or beyond. These relations were independent of socioeconomic status, health conditions, depression, social integration, and health behaviors (e.g., smoking, diet, and alcohol use). Overall, findings suggest optimism may be an important psychosocial resource for extending life span in older adults.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“In 2 epidemiological cohorts of men and women, more optimistic individuals had an ≈10% longer life span and a greater adjusted odds of surviving to ≥ 85 years of age (OR, 1.5 for women and 1.7 for men). 67”
From Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2021) · cites this paper as [67]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
López-Otín, C., Blasco, M. A., Partridge, L., Serrano, M., & Kroemer, G. (2013) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.039 · Cited by 14,982
Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Bridges, M. W. (1994) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037//0022-3514.67.6.1063 · Cited by 7,456
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., & Layton, J. B. (2010) · PLoS Medicine · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 · Cited by 7,272
Screening for Depression in Well Older Adults: Evaluation of a Short Form of the CES-D
Andresen, E. M., Malmgren, J. A., Carter, W. B., & Patrick, D. L. (1994) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(18)30622-6 · Cited by 5,403
BERKMAN, L. F., & SYME, S. L. (1979) · American Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112674 · Cited by 5,341
Andresen, E. M., Malmgren, J. A., Carter, W. B., & Patrick, D. L. (1994) · PubMed · Cited by 4,426
MMPI-2 : Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 : manual for administration and scoring
Hathaway, S. R., & McKinley, J. (1989) · University of Minnesota Press eBooks · Cited by 2,450
Lr, D., & Derogatis, L. R. (1983) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 2,027
Alternative Dietary Indices Both Strongly Predict Risk of Chronic Disease
Chiuve, S. E., Fung, T. T., Rimm, E. B., Hu, F. B., McCullough, M. L., Wang, M., Stampfer, M. J., & Willett, W. C. (2012) · The Journal of Nutrition · doi:10.3945/jn.111.157222 · Cited by 1,951
Chida, Y., & Steptoe, A. (2008) · Psychosomatic Medicine · doi:10.1097/psy.0b013e31818105ba · Cited by 1,592
Research works printed but not linked: 3
- 10.1037/0022-3514.82.1.102 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0022-3514.67.6.1063 · DOI · Paper page
- A. Spiro, III, R. Bossé, “The Normative Aging Study” in The Encyclopedia of Aging, G. L. Maddox, Ed. (Springer, New York, 2001), pp. 744–746.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Handbook of Religion and Health
Koenig, H. G., VanderWeele, T. J., & Peteet, J. R. (2023) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190088859.001.0001 · Cited by 1,160
Levine, G. N., Cohen, B. E., Commodore-Mensah, Y., Fleury, J., Huffman, J. C., Khalid, U., Labarthe, D. R., Lavretsky, H., Michos, E. D., Spatz, E. S., et al. (2021) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/cir.0000000000000947 · Cited by 865
Self-citationPasion, R., Paiva, T. O., Fernandes, C., & Barbosa, F. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.561785 · Cited by 153
Santini, Z. I., Jose, P. E., Koyanagi, A., Meilstrup, C., Nielsen, L., Madsen, K. R., & Koushede, V. (2020) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112906 · Cited by 147
An affective neuroscience model of boosting resilience in adults
Tabibnia, G. (2020) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.05.005 · Cited by 115
Metadata
- Authors
- Lee, L. O., James, P., Zevon, E. S., Kim, E. S., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Spiro, A., Grodstein, F., & Kubzansky, L. D.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2019-08-26
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 37
- Pages
- 18357-18362
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC6744861
- OpenAlex
- W2970745387
- Cited by
- 195
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 24.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (K08-AG048221, R01-AG053273, R01-AG018436, K99-AG055696)
- HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R00-CA201542, UM1-CA186107)
- HHS | NIH | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1-TR001430)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- optimism, exceptional longevity, lifespan, aging, psychosocial factors, older adults, socioeconomic status, depression, social integration, health behavior, sex differences
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Female, Humans, Longevity, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Health Behavior, Logistic Models, Odds Ratio
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
