Unequally Distributed Psychological Assets: Are There Social Disparities in Optimism, Life Satisfaction, and Positive Affect?

The heart's content: The association between positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular health.

(2012) Julia K. Boehm et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Mental Health Promotion in Public Health: Perspectives and Strategies From Positive Psychology

(2011) Rosemarie Kobau et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

A prospective study of positive psychological well-being and coronary heart disease.

(2011) Julia K. Boehm et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Resources for health: Differential effects of optimistic self-beliefs and social support according to socioeconomic status.

(2011) Ina Schöllgen et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Optimism and the Socioeconomic Status Gradient in Adolescent Adiposity

(2011) Dhruv Khullar et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Optimism and its Relationship to Mental and Self-Rated Health: A Study of Aging Twins

(2009) Miriam A. Mosing et al.   BEHAVIOR GENETICS

Optimism, Cynical Hostility, and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative

(2009) Hilary A. Tindle et al.   CIRCULATION

Can the influence of childhood socioeconomic status on men’s and women’s adult body mass be explained by adult socioeconomic status or personality? Findings from a national sample.

(2009) Benjamin P. Chapman et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Social mobility and social accumulation across the life course in relation to adult overweight and obesity: the Whitehall II study

(2009) A. Heraclides et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

The relative contributions of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health, and social relationships to life satisfaction in the United States

(2008) Steven D. Barger et al.   QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH