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Building Emotional Resilience to Promote Health

Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, mary.davis{at}asu.edu

In recent years, a growing body of evidence has linked positive emotional health with lower cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, independent of negative emotion. Several potential mechanisms have been posited to account for these associations, including improved health behavior, direct physiological benefits, and enhanced resistance to and recovery from stress among individuals with high versus low positive emotional resources. Links between positive emotion and health have implications for targeted interventions, but no empirical investigations to date have tested the impact of efforts to enhance positive emotion on cardiovascular risk. Nevertheless, some existing data point to the potential value of strategies to increase emotional resources for individuals' functional health and capacity to manage stress.

Key Words: positive emotion • stress • resilience

This version was published on July 1, 2009

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1 Suppl, 60S-63S (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1559827609335152


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