Danner D D, Snowdon D A, Friesen W V
Department of Preventive Medicine and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0230, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2001 May;80(5):804-13.
Handwritten autobiographies from 180 Catholic nuns, composed when participants were a mean age of 22 years, were scored for emotional content and related to survival during ages 75 to 95. A strong inverse association was found between positive emotional content in these writings and risk of mortality in late life (p < .001). As the quartile ranking of positive emotion in early life increased, there was a stepwise decrease in risk of mortality resulting in a 2.5-fold difference between the lowest and highest quartiles. Positive emotional content in early-life autobiographies was strongly associated with longevity 6 decades later. Underlying mechanisms of balanced emotional states are discussed.
180名天主教修女的手写自传，这些自传是在参与者平均年龄为22岁时撰写的，对其情感内容进行了评分，并与75至95岁期间的生存率相关联。研究发现，这些作品中的积极情感内容与晚年死亡风险之间存在强烈的负相关（p < 0.001）。随着早年积极情绪四分位数排名的增加，死亡风险逐步降低，导致最低和最高四分位数之间存在2.5倍的差异。早年自传中的积极情感内容与60年后的长寿密切相关。文中还讨论了平衡情绪状态的潜在机制。
