Life satisfaction and inflammatory biomarkers: The 2008 Scottish Health Survey<sup>1</sup>

Hamer, Mark; Chida, Yoichi

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5884.2011.00460.x

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“…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. Hucklebridge et al (2000) Inductions of both positive and negative mood upregulated sIgA.…”

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“…Grant, Wardle, & Steptoe (2009) Across 21 nations life satisfaction was related to more exercise and less smoking, eating fruit and limiting fat intake, and using sun protection, with the first two being consistent across regions and the latter ones showing differences. Hamer and Chida (2011) Life satisfaction predicted lower levels of smoking and Body Mass Index. Hamilton et al (2007) Hedonic well-being was inversely associated with health behaviors such as smoking and sleep disturbances.…”

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

Diener¹

2017

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“…Inflammation biomarkers such as C-reactive protein and fibrinogen could be a possible mediating link. Inflammation biomarkers have been found to be negatively associated with positive affect in general (Shirom, Toker, Melamed, Berliner, & Shapira, 2010) and with life satisfaction in particular (Hamer & Chida, 2011), and have been shown to be more pronounced and prolonged in individuals at risk of diabetes (Haffner, 2003;Kolb & Mandrup-Poulsen, 2010). Yet another possible mechanism is represented by health behaviors such as overeating or a sedentary lifestyle.…”

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Life and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of the Incidence of Diabetes

Shirom

Toker

Melamed

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Applied Psych Health & Well

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We studied the hypothesised effects of baseline levels of life satisfaction and of job satisfaction on the incidence of diabetes. Participants were 2,305 apparently healthy men and women who underwent routine health checks at two points in time, about 20 months apart. New cases of diabetes (N=104) were defined based on fasting glucose value > 125, or glycosylated hemoglobin value > 6.5, or self-reported physician diagnosis of diabetes and taking medications to treat it. Life satisfaction was measured using the scale constructed by Diener et al. (1985) while job satisfaction was assessed based on the Survey of Working Conditions. In the analyses, we controlled for socio-demographic predictors, for known physiological and behavioral precursors of diabetes, and for depressive symptoms. There was support for our hypothesis that the higher the baseline levels of life satisfaction, the lower the incidence of diabetes. However, job satisfaction did not predict the incidence of diabetes. We obtained the same results when limiting the analysis to new cases of diabetes based on objective criteria only and when using as predictors both life and job satisfaction. We suggest that life satisfaction could be a protective factor reducing the risk of diabetes.

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“…To capture chronic inflammation well, the biomarker C-reactive protein (CRP) has a couple of attributes (Pepys and Hirschfield 2003). Circulating CRP has been associated with various quality-of-life indicators (Nowakowski 2014;Hamer and Chida 2011). Circulating CRP is in part genetically determined.…”

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Happiness and its molecular fingerprints

Probst‐Hensch

2017

Int Rev Econ

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Happiness and well-being are in part heritable, but modifiable traits. The promotion of well-being and happiness, much like the primary prevention of noncommunicable diseases (NCD), will become increasingly important in a world that is facing an NCD epidemic due to demographic aging and urbanization. The costs for the often lifelong treatment of NCDs are already high and may increase further with the arrival of expensive personalized medicine. The effective promotion of happiness at the individual and population level in order to guide policy requires a causal and mechanistic understanding of its modifiable determinants. With more than half of the world's population living in cities, it becomes, for example, important to understand how environmental, social, and lifestyle characteristics of urban life influence well-being. Yet, the correlation between many of these factors and the fact that they act in concert poses a large challenge in causal inference. The -omics biomarkers which form a pillar of personalized medicine are at the same time essential research instruments of modern-day observational epidemiology. The paper discusses how they can be applied to overcome the challenges researchers face in studies on the association of complex risk and protective patterns with specific well-being phenotypes and their relation to diseases. Important concepts are discussed in the context of well-being that were recently developed by epidemiologists to stimulate more investments into the understanding of the modifiable part of health (e.g., Exposome; Meet-in-the-Middle; Mendelian Randomization) to match the huge investments that went into genetic research.

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Life satisfaction and inflammatory biomarkers: The 2008 Scottish Health Survey¹

Cited by 39 publications

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

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

Life and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of the Incidence of Diabetes

Happiness and its molecular fingerprints

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

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Life satisfaction and inflammatory biomarkers: The 2008 Scottish Health Survey¹