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Psychological Well-Being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions
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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 protective psychological assets that may promote improved physical health and longevity. We summarize recent evidence of the link between psychological well-being (including positive affect, optimism, life meaning and purpose, and life satisfaction) and physical health, with particular attention to outcomes of mortality and chronic disease incidence and progression. Within this evolving discipline there remain controversies and lessons to be learned. We discuss measurement-related challenges, concerns about the quality of the evidence, and other shortcomings in the field, along with a brief discussion of hypothesized biobehavioral mechanisms involved. Finally, we suggest next steps to move the field forward.
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This selective review summarizes prospective evidence (2006 onward) linking psychological well-being—positive affect, optimism, life satisfaction, and purpose in life—to physical health outcomes including chronic disease incidence, disease progression, and mortality. The authors argue the field is limited by inconsistent measurement and conceptualization of well-being, and call for randomized interventions to establish causality.
Key findings
- Well-being is associated with lower chronic disease incidence: in EPIC-Germany (~28,704 women), low life satisfaction was linked to 45% increased cancer risk, 69% for stroke, and 27% for diabetes; in 1,739 Nova Scotians, each unit increase in staff-coded positive affect was associated with 22% reduced odds of a cardiac event over 10 years.
- Eudaimonic and blended constructs also show protective effects: a meta-analysis of 10 studies found life purpose associated with lower CVD risk (RR = 0.83, 95% CI = 0.75–0.92); ikigai was linked to lower breast cancer odds (RR = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.47–0.94) in 34,497 Japanese women; in ELSA (8,182 older adults), each SD increase in well-being was associated with reduced arthritis (HR = 0.89), diabetes (HR = 0.82), and lung disease (HR = 0.80).
- In disease progression, each 1-SD increase in well-being was associated with 11% reduced risk of rehospitalization or mortality in cardiac patients (meta-analysis of 11 studies); in 995 women with HIV, high positive affect was associated with twice the likelihood of undetectable viral load (OR = 1.92, 95% CI 1.34–2.74).
- For longevity, purpose in life remained significant when hedonic well-being was included in the same model (MIDUS, N = 6,163), and daily stressor-related decreases in positive affect predicted higher mortality over 10 years (181 men, VA Normative Aging Study); some effects attenuated when health behaviors and self-rated health were controlled.
Methods
- Selective review of prospective evidence published 2006 onward, restricted to studies with objective health measures and those illuminating potential differential effects across well-being subtypes.
- Well-being organized into hedonic (pleasure, happiness, positive affect, life satisfaction) and eudaimonic (life meaning, purpose, self-actualization, autonomy) domains, plus blended constructs (optimism, hope, vitality); studies summarized in Table 1 and supplementary Table 2.
- Narrative synthesis across three outcome areas: disease onset in healthy samples, disease progression in clinical samples, and mortality/longevity, with attention to covariates and hypothesized biobehavioral mechanisms.
Limitations
- Stated by the paper: lack of consistency in defining and sorting well-being domains (e.g., optimism variously cataloged as eudaimonic or blended); rare simultaneous inclusion of multiple well-being types in a single model; eudaimonic aspects greatly neglected; overreliance on secondary data with narrow, sometimes dubious well-being measures; and predominance of observational designs that cannot establish causality.
- Stated by the paper: controversy over whether statistically controlling for hypothesized mediators (e.g., health behaviors) constitutes over-adjustment, potentially obscuring real effects.
- Evident from the text: the review is explicitly selective rather than systematic, and the authors note it is premature to infer differential health effects across well-being subdomains given heterogeneity in constructs and disease states.
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“In experimental trials, more long-term and enduring improvements in mental health are documented for interventions seeking to boost eudaimonic well-being versus those emphasizing pursuit of hedonia”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Definition of Psychological Well-being
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- Not checked yetcites Huta & Ryan, 2010
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“only vigor and well-being, but not calm, were protective against development of a cold”
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- Not checked yetcites Cohen et al., 2003
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“correlation coefficients (r’s) across well-being domains ranged from as low as 0.13 to moderate values of 0.62.”
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- Not checked yetcites Keyes et al., 2002
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“self-reported positive affect (i.e., positive affect items from the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)) was not predictive of incident cardiovascular disease (stoke, heart failure, CHD) over an 11.9-year follow-up period”
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- Not checked yetcites Freak-Poli et al., 2015
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“when compared to hedonic indices, eudaimonia is associated with more favorable psychological functioning and overall well-being”
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- Not checked yetcites Steger, Kashdan, & Oishi, 2008
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“In this sample of 1,739 Nova Scotians, each unit increase in staff-coded positive affect was associated with 22% reduced odds of a cardiac event within 10 years, controlling for socio-demographic factors, major cardiovascular disease risk factors (e.g., smoking status), and psychological distress”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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- Not checked yetcites Davidson, Mostofsky, & Whang, 2010
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“Keyes et al. (2002) identified two correlated latent factors reflecting eudaimonic and hedonic aspects.”
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“After 8 years of follow-up, life satisfaction was associated with reduced risk for chronic illness incidence in their cohort of ~28,704 women”
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- Not checked yetcites Feller, Teucher, Kaaks, Boeing, & Vigl, 2013
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“co-occurence of opposite-valenced emotions is not only conceivable but indeed commonplace”
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- Not checked yetcites Larsen et al., 2014
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“After controlling for sex, race, education, body mass index (BMI), month of exposure, virus type, immune factors, and negative affect (depression, anxiety and hostility), positive affect was related to lower likelihood of developing a cold up to five days after exposure.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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- Not checked yetcites Cohen, Doyle, Turner, Alper, & Skoner, 2003
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“Baumeister and colleagues (2013) found that hedonic well-being is linked to acquisition of core desires (both needs and wants) and focuses largely on present moment circumstances.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Definition of Psychological Well-being
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- Not checked yetcites Baumeister et al., 2013
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“Women reporting low levels of life satisfaction had a 45% increased risk of cancer, 69% for stroke incidence, and 27% for diabetes mellitus; covariates considered included lifestyle factors, demographic characteristics, and traditional CVD risk factors.”
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“eudaimonic well-being involves cognitive appraisals across a larger timeframe, incorporating past, present, and future experiences with emphasis on actualization of the self and exercising of generosity toward others”
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- Not checked yetcites Vallacher & Wegner, 1987
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“a blended construct of well-being capturing levels of happiness and optimism was associated with a 40% risk reduction for incident venous thromboembolism”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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“After controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, depressive symptoms, BMI, and health behavior adherence, each SD increase in psychological well-being was associated with reduced incidence of arthritis (HR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.83–0.96), diabetes (HR = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.71–0.95), and lung disease (HR = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.66–0.97).”
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- Not checked yetcites Okely & Gale, 2016
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“The hedonic indicator of positive affect (PANAS) was not significantly associated with incidence of a CVD event. However, each SD increase in positive affect reduced risk of all-cause mortality by 16%.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Progression
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“women with high positive affect (when compared to those with low positive affect scores) were twice as likely to have undetectable viral load classifications (OR = 1.92, 95% CI 1.34–2.74), particularly when accompanied by low negative affect profiles”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Progression
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“Researchers observed lower odds for diabetes onset among individuals with greater life satisfaction and emotional vitality, but not in those with greater levels of optimism”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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- Not checked yetcites Boehm, Trudel-Fitzgerald, Kivimaki, & Kubzansky, 2015
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“In a meta-analysis of 11 total studies, DuBois et al. (2015) found multiple positive psychological constructs (e.g., positive affect, optimism) to confer a protective effect on rates of rehospitalization and mortality among cardiac patients. Each 1-SD increase in psychological well-being was associated with an 11% reduced risk for either re-hospitalization or mortality.”
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“Wiest and colleagues (2011) demonstrated that both life satisfaction (Pavot & Diener, 1993) and positive affect (the PANAS, (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988)) independently predict lowered risk of mortality, whereas negative affect was not predictive of mortality in any of the models.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Positive Psychological Well-being and Longevity
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“the daily stressor-related decreases in positive affect were associated with a significantly higher risk of mortality over the follow up period. Negative affect reactivity was not predictive of mortality.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Positive Psychological Well-being and Longevity
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“there was an 11% reduction in CHD risk with each SD increase in emotional vitality and a 13% decrease in CHD associated with higher levels of baseline optimism”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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“Less work has been done examining eudaimonic components and future studies will want to consider domains such as personal growth and life purpose and meaning.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Discussion > Need for Cogent Taxonomy of Well-being
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“optimism is sometimes cataloged as a eudaimonic domain and at others times identified as a blended construct encompassing both hedonic and eudaimonic elements.”
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“There remains controversy as to whether this constitutes over-adjustment”
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“To date, optimism has received substantial focus and emerges as a salient factor for physical health.”
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“eudaimonic well-being was associated with decreased expression of genes involved in inflammation and increased expression in genes associated with antiviral response”
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“while others create composite scores that blend multiple domains into a single well-being component.”
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“it is exceedingly rare for individual well-being types to be considered simultaneously within a single sample, negating the ability to determine whether differential effects are evident for individual attributes of well-being”
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“survey data from large cohort studies often include a narrow collection of well-being domains and often only assesses these on one occasion and not across multiple waves.”
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“Tested in over 4000 subjects across 51 clinical trials, positive psychology-based interventions show effectiveness in amplifying positive affect and psychological well-being and have significantly led to reduced symptoms of depression in heterogeneous samples of mostly healthy adults (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009)”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Discussion > Psychological Well-Being Interventions: The Next Big Frontier
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“In both healthy populations and those with existing chronic illness, evidence links favorable psychological well-being with enhanced exercise regularity, smoking abstinence”
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“Hedonic well-being is said to emerge from procurement of basic biologic requisites and securing of resources to ensure attainment of homeostasis, comfort, and survival”
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- Not checked yetcites Baumeister et al., 2013
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“positive and negative emotions are said to process from different brain regions allowing for their simultaneous activation”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Definition of Psychological Well-being
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- Not checked yetcites Hoebel, Rada, Mark, & Pothos, 1999
- Not checked yetcites Larsen et al., 2001
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“The origins of eudaimonic well-being are thought to be more complex and are largely dictated by cultural context”
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- Not checked yetcites Baumeister et al., 2013
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“there is evidence that while hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being are correlated, they diverge and map onto empirically distinct planes, with different predictors and consequences”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Definition of Psychological Well-being
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- Not checked yetcites Keyes, Shmotkin, & Ryff, 2002
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“Well-being constructs that repeatedly offset disease onset were positive affect (particularly high activation subtypes), emotional vitality and life satisfaction, with less consistent results seen for optimism and constructs that blend across domains.”
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“In studies reported thus far, a majority of available evidence points to a salubrious effect of well-being for cardiometabolic health, e.g., diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and CHD, and cancer incidence. Lung disease and arthritis have been less studied.”
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“optimism emerges as a consistent predictor of cardiovascular health, but displays less consistent results for other disease types, e.g., HIV and cancer.”
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“influences of hedonic domains of well-being are often attenuated when controlling for ill-being in patient populations with pre-existing disease, while investigation of protective effects imparted by eudaimonic subtypes are grossly understudied.”
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“Clearly negative emotions serve important adaptive functions and at sustained or extreme levels--particularly those leading to psychopathology, they need to be addressed directly.”
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“In the United States and Europe, high-arousal positive affect is often more valued, whereas in Asia, low arousal is often more valued.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Discussion > Mediators, Moderators, and Confounders
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- Not checked yetcites Tsai and colleagues (2006)
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“was associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality in a model that controlled for age.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Positive Psychological Well-being and Longevity
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- Not checked yetcites Liu et al., 2016
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“note, well-being indicators were not pitted against each other in regression models negating ability to infer individual effects for each attribute controlling for rival indicators”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Onset in Initially Healthy Samples
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- Not checked yetcites Suls (2017)
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“decreased well-being among South Koreans (Layous, Lee, Choi, & Lyubomirsky, 2013).”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Discussion > Mediators, Moderators, and Confounders
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- Not checked yetcites Layous, Lee, Choi, & Lyubomirsky, 2013
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“Observational studies do not provide definitive information regarding the direction of causality and the influence of potential unmeasured variables.”
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“reduced depression in women with metastatic breast cancer (Cheung et al., 2016) and people with type 2 diabetes (Cohn, Pietrucha, Saslow, Hult, & Moskowitz, 2014).”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Discussion > Psychological Well-Being Interventions: The Next Big Frontier
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“A recently completed study of a positive affect intervention in people newly diagnosed with HIV demonstrated improvements in psychological well-being, decreases in psychological ill being, and improvements in physical health (e.g., suppressed viral load) compared to an attention-matched control condition (Moskowitz et al., 2017).”
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“The authors did not report whether the individual types of well-being were differentially predictive of disease progression or mortality on their own.”
§ Psychological Well-being and Physical Health: Associations, Mechanisms, and Future Directions > Psychological Well-being and Disease Progression
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“Investigators are then limited to a handful of well-being measures--some with dubious psychometric properties--without the ability to examine individual effects while controlling for other important or competing well-being domains.”
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“The findings of Nilsson et al. (2011) and Wiest et al. (2011) suggest that well-being may exert health effects through improved health behaviors and aspects of social support.”
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“Hernandez et al. (2015) recently explored the conception of well-being in US Hispanic/Latino adults and conclude that programs aimed at increasing well-being may need to be adapted before administration in Hispanics/Latinos to include a heightened”
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“This is surprising given the prevalence of social media in daily lives, and the close link between psychological well-being and physical health.10”
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“While distress symptoms trigger negative emotions and behaviors, well-being refers to the subjective feeling of health and a positive perception of an individual’s quality of life (Hernandez et al., 2018).”
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“[15] It refers not only to the absence of psychological problems but also to the presence of positive emotions and cognitive evaluations such as optimism and a sense of meaning in life.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hernandez, R., Bassett, S. M., Boughton, S. W., Schuette, S. A., Shiu, E. W., & Moskowitz, J. T.
- Affiliations
- School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Northwestern University (US)
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-10-20
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 18-29
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- PMC
- PMC9841922
- OpenAlex
- W2766119211
- Semantic Scholar
- 74b39fc60563601c8aaa44cd43f3ad01e4b954ad
- Cited by
- 259
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 15.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1K01HL130712-01A1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (K24 MH 093225)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Keywords
- psychological well-being, physical health, positive affect, optimism, life satisfaction, mortality, chronic disease, biobehavioral mechanisms, measurement challenges
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