ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2020
A multimethod approach examining the relative contributions of optimism and pessimism to cardiovascular disease risk markers.
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- Association between subjective well-being and the risk of cardiovascular diseases among older adults: evidence from the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Negative Life Events as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Optimism and Cardiovascular Reactivity.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Relations Between Optimism-Pessimism and Loneliness in Sexually Minoritized Men: The Moderating Role of Chronicity-Based Discrimination.Journal of homosexuality · 2025Article
- Positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Within-person associations of optimistic and pessimistic expectations with momentary stress, affect, and ambulatory blood pressure.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2023Article
- A pilot exploration of the relationships between optimism, affect, and cardiovascular reactivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Association of Dispositional Optimism and Pessimism With Cardiovascular Disease Events in Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of aging and health · 2022Article
- Cross-sectional associations of optimism with artery calcification and function: The SCAPIS study.Journal of public health research · 2022Article
- Differential Effects of Optimism and Pessimism on Adolescents' Subjective Well-Being: Mediating Roles of Reappraisal and Acceptance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Estimated probabilities of positive, vs. negative, events show separable correlations with COVID-19 preventive behaviours.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- The Impact of Psychological Functioning on Cardiovascular Disease.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
Although dispositional optimism and pessimism are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), their relative independence and unique contributions to CVD risk are unclear. This study addressed these issues by using multiple indicators of optimism and pessimism and linking them to objective risk factors for CVD. A diverse sample of adults (N = 300) completed baseline assessments (including global reports of optimism and pessimism), a 2-day/1-night EMA protocol with ambulatory blood pressure (BP) at 45-min intervals, and had inflammatory markers and carotid intima media imaging collected. EMA reports of momentary positive and negative expectations were averaged to form intraindividual (person) means of optimism and pessimism, respectively. Optimism and pessimism were only modestly correlated between- and within-assessment methods. Higher pessimism, regardless of assessment method, predicted both lower odds of whether BP dipping occurred and a smaller degree of dipping, but was unrelated to other biomarkers. Optimism was not uniquely predictive of CVD risk factors. Pessimism thus appears to exhibit stronger relative contribution to risk indicators of CVD than optimism.
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