心理健康对生理疾病的影响到底有多大呢

Ctrl C - Ctrl V:“Health and longevity are good indicators of physical reserve, and there is direct evidence that positive emotion predicts health and longevity. In the largest study to date, 2,282 Mexican-Americans from the southwest United States aged sixty-five or older were given a battery of demographic and emotional tests, then tracked for two years. Positive emotion strongly predicted who lived and who died, as well as disability. After controlling for age, income, education, weight, smoking, drinking, and disease, the researchers found that happy people were half as likely to die, and half as likely to become disabled. Positive emotion also protects people against the ravages of aging. You will recall that beginning nuns who wrote happy autobiographies when in their twenties lived longer and healthier lives than novices whose autobiographies were devoid of positive emotion, and also that optimists in the Mayo Clinic study lived significantly longer than pessimists. Happy people, furthermore, have better health habits, lower blood pressure, and feistier immune systems than less happy people. When you combine all this with Aspinwall\u0026#39;s findings that happy people seek out and absorb more health risk information, it adds up to an unambiguous picture of happiness as a prolonger of life and improver of health. ”——《Authentic Happiness》 by Martin E. P. Seligman翻译:“身体状况的两个指标是健康状况和寿命,而已经有直接证据证明:积极情绪可以预测健康状况和寿命。目前最大规模的研究是在美国西南对2282名65岁以上的墨西哥裔美国人进行的人口统计和情绪测试,以及两年的跟踪。积极情绪很好地预测了生存、死亡和残障的状况。而在排除了年龄、收入、教育水平、体重、烟酒习惯和疾病史的因素之后,研究人员发现快乐的人的死亡率和伤残率都是不快乐的人的一半。积极情绪还能帮助人抵抗衰老。想想本书开头那些二十多岁的时候就写下充满幸福感的自传的修女,她们比那些自传里没什么好话的活的更长久、更健康。另外,在Mayo诊所的研究中,积极的人比消极的要长寿得多。除此而外,快乐的人比不那么快乐的人健康习惯更好,血压更低,免疫系统更强壮。所有这些,再加上Aspinwall那个“快乐的人会积极寻找并汲取更多的健康信息”的发现,都毫无疑问地指向了一个结果:快乐的人更长寿,更健康。——《真实的快乐》马丁·塞利格曼著
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