Does positive affect influence health?

By Sarah D. Pressman, Sheldon Cohen. Psychological bulletin, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Happiness at work. (2010, positive): “A meta-analytic review concluded that trait positive affect is a strong predictor of reduced morbidity and of increased longevity among older adults, and that both state and trait positive affect are associated with reduced symptoms of ill health and pain (Pressman and Cohen 2005).”
A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, background): “Rugulies (2000) found in a review of 11 studies that depressed feelings predict coronary heart disease, and that clinical levels of depression predict even more strongly.”
Positive emotion in sport performance: current status and future directions (2011, methodology): “One method that relates to the psychological skill of self-talk is the Velten mood induction procedure (Velten, 1968) in which the participant reads a list of statements (e.g., I am elated about things) silently, then aloud and tries to feel the suggested mood (Pressman & Cohen, 2005).”
Optimism and Physical Health: A Meta-analytic Review (2009, background): “Pressman and Cohen [ 15 ] provided a qualitative review of the literature linking positive affect to health.”
A Longitudinal Analysis of Positive Psychological Constructs and Emotions on Stress, Anxiety, and Well-Being (2011, background): “Furthermore, well-being has been linked with a wide variety of positive outcomes (see Pressman & Cohen, 2005).”
The case for positive emotions in the stress process (2008, background): “A major review by Pressman and Cohen (2005) shows that positive emotions matter with respect to morbidity, independent of negative affect.”
What good are character strengths beyond subjective well-being? The contribution of the good character on self-reported health-oriented behavior, physical fitness, and the subjective health status (2013, background): “…on the level of broad personality traits (such as the big five; Kubzansky, Martin, & Buka, 2009), specific traits such as positive affect (e.g. Pressman & Cohen, 2005), personal strivings (e.g. Emmons & King, 1988), and also for single character strengths such as optimism (e.g. Scheier &…”
Reactions to Discrimination, Stigmatization, Ostracism, and Other Forms of Interpersonal Rejection (2009, positive): “…over time, positive responses from other people foster psychological and physical wellbeing, whereas long-term exposure to negative interpersonal reactions is associated with psychological difficulties and poor physical health (Pressman & Cohen, 2005; D. R. Williams, Neighbors, & Jackson, 2003).”
Mental health, resilience and inequalities (2009, background): “…number of longitudinal studies confirm their power to predict outcomes, for example, longevity, physical health, quality of life, criminality, drug and alcohol use, employment, earnings and pro-social behaviour (e.g. volunteering) (Pressman and Cohen 2005; Lyubomirsky et al 2005; Dolan et al 2006).”
Beyond Learning: Exploring Visitors' Perceptions of the Value and Benefits of Museum Experiences (2008, background): “For example, positive judgements of well-being have been linked with faster hospital patient recovery rates, individual coping strategies and levels of resilience (Keyes, Shmotkin, and Ryff 2002; Pressman and Cohen 2005 ).”
Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms with positive psychology interventions: a practice-friendly meta-analysis. (2009, background): “…shown to be both the cause and the consequence of many desirable life outcomes (including career success, marriage, and health; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005; Pressman & Cohen, 2005), it is vital to understand how languishing individuals can be lifted to a more optimal state of functioning.”
Emotional Experience Improves With Age: Evidence Based on Over 10 Years of Experience Sampling (2011, background): “We excluded participants who were 45 years old or younger at Wave 1 because, as Pressman and Cohen (2005) note, the association of emotional experience and mortality is weak, if existent, in early adulthood when mortality risk is extremely low.”
Central effects of stress hormones in health and disease: Understanding the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators. (2008, background): “Having a positive outlook on life and good self-esteem appear to have long-lasting health consequences (Pressman and Cohen, 2005), and good social support is also a positive influence on the measures of allostatic load (Seeman et al., 2002).”
Individual Differences in Heart Rate Variability Predict the Degree of Slowing during Response Inhibition and Initiation in the Presence of Emotional Stimuli (2011, neutral): “Nonethe-less,due to the conﬂicting ﬁndings in the literature regarding HRV and mood states (for a review Pressman and Cohen, 2005) and the inability of our data to exactly address this question, future research is needed to investigate the exact relation between affect .”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “Finally, given positive emotions’ role in promoting physical health (Kok et al. 2013; Pressman and Cohen 2005; Steptoe et al. 2005), future research should investigate whether positive emotions may also explain the”
Humor Styles, Positive Personality and Health (2010, background): “Consistently higher levels of positive affect also are associated with greater psychological resilience (Cohn, Frederickson, Brown, Mikels, & Conway, 2009), fewer illness symptoms reported (Pettit, Kline, Gencoz, Gencoz, & Joiner, 2001), and better health in general (Pressman & Cohen, 2005).”
Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes (2007, positive): “Specifically, Pressman and Cohen (2005) detailed two models linking positive affect and disease.”