TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive Cardiovascular Health
T2 - A Timely Convergence
AU - Labarthe, Darwin R.
AU - Kubzansky, Laura D.
AU - Boehm, Julia K.
AU - Lloyd-Jones, Donald M.
AU - Berry, Jarett D.
AU - Seligman, Martin E.P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this publication was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio through a Positive Health grant, titled “Exploring Concepts of Positive Health,” to the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Dr. Seligman is the director). Dr. Labarthe received support from this source through a subcontract from the University of Pennsylvania to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American College of Cardiology Foundation
PY - 2016/8/23
Y1 - 2016/8/23
N2 - Two concepts, positive health and cardiovascular health, have emerged recently from the respective fields of positive psychology and preventive cardiology. These parallel constructs are converging to foster positive cardiovascular health and a growing collaboration between psychologists and cardiovascular scientists to achieve significant improvements in both individual and population cardiovascular health. We explore these 2 concepts and note close similarities in the measures that define them, the health states that they aim to produce, and their intended long-term clinical and public health outcomes. We especially examine subjective health assets, such as optimism, that are a core focus of positive psychology, but have largely been neglected in preventive cardiology. We identify research to date on positive cardiovascular health, discuss its strengths and limitations thus far, and outline directions for further engagement of cardiovascular scientists with colleagues in positive psychology to advance this new field.
AB - Two concepts, positive health and cardiovascular health, have emerged recently from the respective fields of positive psychology and preventive cardiology. These parallel constructs are converging to foster positive cardiovascular health and a growing collaboration between psychologists and cardiovascular scientists to achieve significant improvements in both individual and population cardiovascular health. We explore these 2 concepts and note close similarities in the measures that define them, the health states that they aim to produce, and their intended long-term clinical and public health outcomes. We especially examine subjective health assets, such as optimism, that are a core focus of positive psychology, but have largely been neglected in preventive cardiology. We identify research to date on positive cardiovascular health, discuss its strengths and limitations thus far, and outline directions for further engagement of cardiovascular scientists with colleagues in positive psychology to advance this new field.
KW - positive health
KW - positive psychology
KW - preventive cardiology
KW - primordial prevention
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.03.608
DO - 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.03.608
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27539179
AN - SCOPUS:84990178348
SN - 0735-1097
VL - 68
SP - 860
EP - 867
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
IS - 8
ER -
