TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional Reactivity and Mortality
T2 - Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study
AU - Mroczek, Daniel K.
AU - Stawski, Robert S.
AU - Turiano, Nicholas A.
AU - Chan, Wai
AU - Almeida, David M.
AU - Neupert, Shevaun D.
AU - Spiro, Avron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - Objectives. Evidence suggests a predictive association between emotion and mortality risk. However, no study has examined dynamic aspects of emotion in relation to mortality. This study used an index of emotional reactivity, defined as changes in positive or negative affect in response to daily stressors, to predict 10-year survival. Methods. An 8-day daily diary study was conducted in 2002 on 181 men aged 58-88. Multilevel models were employed to estimate emotional reactivity coefficients, which were subsequently entered into a Cox proportional hazards model to predict mortality. Results. Results indicated that positive emotional reactivity, that is, greater decreases in positive affect in response to daily stressors, increased mortality risk. Negative emotional reactivity did not predict mortality. Discussion. Findings highlight the potential importance of dynamic aspects of positive affect in prediction of physical health outcomes such as mortality.
AB - Objectives. Evidence suggests a predictive association between emotion and mortality risk. However, no study has examined dynamic aspects of emotion in relation to mortality. This study used an index of emotional reactivity, defined as changes in positive or negative affect in response to daily stressors, to predict 10-year survival. Methods. An 8-day daily diary study was conducted in 2002 on 181 men aged 58-88. Multilevel models were employed to estimate emotional reactivity coefficients, which were subsequently entered into a Cox proportional hazards model to predict mortality. Results. Results indicated that positive emotional reactivity, that is, greater decreases in positive affect in response to daily stressors, increased mortality risk. Negative emotional reactivity did not predict mortality. Discussion. Findings highlight the potential importance of dynamic aspects of positive affect in prediction of physical health outcomes such as mortality.
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/gbt107
DO - 10.1093/geronb/gbt107
M3 - Article
C2 - 24170714
AN - SCOPUS:84936999219
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 70
SP - 398
EP - 406
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - 3
ER -