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

By Julia K. Boehm, L. Kubzansky. Psychological bulletin, 2012

872 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Sonja Lyubomirsky
2. E. Diener
3. Julia K. Boehm
4. L. Waters
5. Barbara L. Fredrickson
6. Louis Tay
7. Margaret L. Kern
8. Michael A. Cohn

In Health

1. E. Diener
2. Louis Tay
3. Sonja Lyubomirsky
4. Margaret L. Kern
5. A. Adler
6. Julia K. Boehm
7. Barbara L. Fredrickson
8. Sara B. Algoe

In Social Psychology

1. Sonja Lyubomirsky
2. E. Diener
3. L. Waters
4. Julia K. Boehm
5. Barbara L. Fredrickson
6. Louis Tay
7. Margaret L. Kern
8. Kennon M. Sheldon

Citations in the corpus

• How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health (2013, background): “Experiencing positive emotions more frequently, for instance, forecasts having fewer colds (Cohen, Alper, Doyle, Treanor, & Turner, 2006), reduced inflammation (Steptoe, O’Donnell, Badrick, Kumari, & Marmot, 2007), and lower likelihood of cardiovascular disease (Boehm & Kubzansky, 2012).”
• The Meanings of Salutogenesis (2017, background): “In the field of health promotion, the positive paradigm may be seen in recent literature of two kinds: that which describes protective factors against untoward outcomes (e.g. Boehm and Kubzansky, 2012) and that which describes factors that promote well-being (Eriksson and Lindström, 2014).”
• A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, background): “Boehm and her colleagues (Boehm and Kubzansky, 2012; Boehm et al., 2011) found that optimism and positive emotions protect against cardiovascular disease, and also predict slower disease progression.”
• Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “…that happy people may also experience various other favorable outcomes not directly covered in this review, such as superior physical health and longevity (Boehm & Kubzansky, 2012; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005; Martin-Maria et al., 2017), which likely also facilitate greater career success.”
• A multidimensional approach to measuring well-being in students: Application of the PERMA framework (2014, background): “For example, a review of positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular outcomes found that optimism reliably predicted lower risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality, but findings were mixed for other aspects of well-being (Boehm & Kubzansky, 2012).”