Is Optimism Associated With Healthier Cardiovascular-Related Behavior? Meta-Analyses of 3 Health Behaviors
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, a university digital commons record which prints it entire; THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ, so nothing beyond the abstract's own figures and wording is recorded here] Boehm, J. K., Chen, Y., Koga, H., Mathur, M. B., Vie, L. L., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2018). 'Is Optimism Associated With Healthier Cardiovascular-Related Behavior? Meta-Analyses of 3 Health Behaviors.' Circulation Research 122(8), 1119-1134. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.310828. PubMed and PsycINFO to November 2017, random-effects meta-analyses. From the abstract, verbatim: 'We identified 34 effect sizes for physical activity (n=90 845), 15 effect sizes for diet (n=47 931), and 15 effect sizes for cigarette smoking (n=15 052). Findings suggested that more optimistic individuals tended to engage in healthier behaviors compared with less optimistic individuals, but effect sizes were modest (r activity=0.07; r diet=0.12; and r smoking=0.07). Most evidence was cross-sectional (>=53% of effect sizes) and did not consider sociodemographic characteristics (<53% of effect sizes) or psychological distress (<27% of effect sizes) as potential confounders. Optimism is associated with healthier behaviours that protect against cardiovascular disease, although most evidence was relatively low quality.' And their own statement of the open question: 'it is unclear whether optimism temporally precedes health behaviors or whether the relationship is because of shared common causes.' THIS IS THE BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISM MEASURED BY THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN IT, and the quality grading quoted above is theirs, in print. Boehm is first author; Koga is third author and led the 2022 cohort paper; Kubzansky is last author on both, which is a point about how small this field is rather than about anybody's conduct.
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, a university digital commons record which prints it entire; THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ, so nothing beyond the abstract's own figures and wording is recorded here] Boehm, J. K., Chen, Y., Koga, H., Mathur, M. B., Vie, L. L., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2018). 'Is Optimism Associated With Healthier Cardiovascular-Related Behavior? Meta-Analyses of 3 Health Behaviors.' Circulation Research 122(8), 1119-1134. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.310828. PubMed and PsycINFO to November 2017, random-effects meta-analyses. From the abstract, verbatim: 'We identified 34 effect sizes for physical activity (n=90 845), 15 effect sizes for diet (n=47 931), and 15 effect sizes for cigarette smoking (n=15 052). Findings suggested that more optimistic individuals tended to engage in healthier behaviors compared with less optimistic individuals, but effect sizes were modest (r activity=0.07; r diet=0.12; and r smoking=0.07). Most evidence was cross-sectional (>=53% of effect sizes) and did not consider sociodemographic characteristics (<53% of effect sizes) or psychological distress (<27% of effect sizes) as potential confounders. Optimism is associated with healthier behaviours that protect against cardiovascular disease, although most evidence was relatively low quality.' And their own statement of the open question: 'it is unclear whether optimism temporally precedes health behaviors or whether the relationship is because of shared common causes.' THIS IS THE BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISM MEASURED BY THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN IT, and the quality grading quoted above is theirs, in print. Boehm is first author; Koga is third author and led the 2022 cohort paper; Kubzansky is last author on both, which is a point about how small this field is rather than about anybody's conduct.
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Boehm, J. K., Chen, Y., Koga, H., Mathur, M. B., Vie, L. L., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2018). Is Optimism Associated With Healthier Cardiovascular-Related Behavior? Meta-Analyses of 3 Health Behaviors. Circulation Research, 122(8), 1119-1134. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.310828