The men’s age range was 41-90 years when they completed an optimism assessment in 1986, and their mortality status was tracked through 2016. The women’s age range was 58-86 years when they completed an optimism assessment in 2004, and their mortality status was tracked through 2014. Lee and co-authors analyzed data from 69,744 women from the Nurses’ Health Study and 1,429 men from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. “Thus, we tested whether higher optimism was associated with longer life span and greater likelihood of exceptional longevity.”
Lewina Lee, a clinical research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston and psychiatrist at Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues.
“Most research on exceptional longevity investigated biomedical factors associated with survival, but recent work suggests nonbiological factors are also important,” said lead author Dr. Previous studies reported that more optimistic individuals are less likely to suffer from chronic diseases and die prematurely. Optimism is a psychological attribute characterized as the general expectation that good things will happen, or the belief that the future will be favorable because one can control important outcomes. Higher optimism is associated with longer life span and a greater likelihood of achieving exceptional longevity.
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