Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

Futterman, Ann D.; Kemeny, Margaret E.; Shapiro, David; Fahey, John L.

doi:10.1097/00006842-199411000-00005

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“…Behaviorally, those who are more optimistic may be motivated to seek more adaptive strategies to remaining well and psychologically healthy. On a cellular level, there is evidence to suggest that immunological changes may be linked to positive affect [42] and optimistic individuals may be more likely to experience higher levels of positive affect than the pessimistic. Despite the convincing evidence of the role of optimism in beneficial outcomes after illness, the relationship between psychological factors and immunological status is an emerging area of research.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can we predict which head and neck cancer survivors develop fears of recurrence?

Llewellyn

Weinman

McGurk

et al. 2008

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can we predict which head and neck cancer survivors develop fears of recurrence?

Llewellyn

Weinman

McGurk

et al. 2008

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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170

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“…Three of these four had participants draw on personal experiences and memories to induce the mood as one component of the manipulation (W. A. Brown et al, 1993;Futterman et al, 1994;Hucklebridge et al, 2000), and two used actors as participants (W. A. Brown et al, 1993;Futterman et al, 1994).…”

Section: Physiological Systems Associated With Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does positive affect influence health?

Pressman

Cohen

2005

Psychological Bulletin

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This review highlights consistent patterns in the literature associating positive affect (PA) and physical health. However, it also raises serious conceptual and methodological reservations. Evidence suggests an association of trait PA and lower morbidity and of state and trait PA and decreased symptoms and pain. Trait PA is also associated with increased longevity among older community-dwelling individuals. The literature on PA and surviving serious illness is inconsistent. Experimentally inducing intense bouts of activated state PA triggers short-term rises in physiological arousal and associated (potentially harmful) effects on immune, cardiovascular, and pulmonary function. However, arousing effects of state PA are not generally found in naturalistic ambulatory studies in which bouts of PA are typically less intense and often associated with health protective responses. A theoretical framework to guide further study is proposed.Keywords: positive affect, mortality, morbidity, health, emotions A cheerful heart is good medicine.-Proverbs 17:22Self-help books, popular magazines, and Sunday newspaper supplements have suggested for years that positive affect (PA) can improve people's health. However, this hypothesis has been relatively ignored in research on psychological predictors of health. For example, a search of PsycINFO revealed that there are over 20 times more studies on depression and health than there are on happiness and health. Although the recent interest in "positive psychology" has focused attention on the potential benefits of positive feelings (e.g., Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), there has been little critical discussion of the evidence linking PA to physical health. In this article, we review the literature examining the association between measures of PA and markers of physical health status, examine the conceptual and methodological weaknesses in the existing literature, and discuss how PA could get "under the skin" to influence health. PAWe define PA as the feelings that reflect a level of pleasurable engagement with the environment (Clark, Watson, & Leeka, 1989) such as happiness, joy, excitement, enthusiasm, and contentment. These can be brief, longer lasting, or more stable traitlike feelings. Although some use the terms affect, mood, and emotion to distinguish duration, these uses are not applied consistently in the literature, and thus we use these terms interchangeably. We, however, distinguish between studies using measures that assess more stable disposition-like PA, which we refer to as trait PA, and those measuring or manipulating relatively short-term bouts of positive emotions, which we refer to as state PA.To date, reviews examining associations between positive psychological constructs and health outcomes have been broad in scope, including traits such as self-esteem, extraversion, purpose, mastery, and optimism along with PA (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005;Ryff, 2003;Salovey, Rothman, Detweiler, & Steward, 2000;Zautra, 2003). Hence, it has been difficult to separate t...

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“…Doyle, Gentile, & Cohen (2005) Positive affect predicted lower subjective and objective markers of illness in those exposed to rhinoviruses, and this association was decreased substantially when IL-6 was controlled. Futterman et al (1994) Mood inductions of positive affect influenced a variety of immune parameters. Hamer & Chida (2011) Life satisfaction predicted lower levels of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein after adjusting for demographics, depressive symptoms, smoking, and BMI.…”

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If, Why, and When Subjective Well-Being Influences Health, and Future Needed Research

Diener¹

2017

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We review evidence on whether subjective well-being (SWB) can influence health, why it might do so, and what we know about the conditions where this is more or less likely to occur. This review also explores how various methodological approaches inform the study of the connections between subjective well-being and health and longevity outcomes. Our review of this growing literature indicates areas where data are substantial and where much more research is needed. We conclude that SWB can sometimes influence health, and review a number of reasons why it does so. A key open question is when it does and does not do so -in terms of populations likely to be affected, types of SWB that are most influential (including which might be harmful), and types of health and illnesses that are most likely to be affected. We also describe additional types of research that are now much needed in this burgeoning area of interest, for example, cross-cultural studies, animal research, and experimental interventions designed to raise long-term SWB and assess the effects on physical health. This research area is characterized both by potentially extremely important findings, and also by pivotal research issues and questions.

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Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

Cited by 104 publications

References 32 publications

Can we predict which head and neck cancer survivors develop fears of recurrence?

Can we predict which head and neck cancer survivors develop fears of recurrence?

Does positive affect influence health?

If, Why, and When Subjective Well-Being Influences Health, and Future Needed Research

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