TY - JOUR
T1 - Catastrophizing and untimely death
AU - Peterson, Christopher
AU - Seligman, Martin E.P.
AU - Yurko, Karen H.
AU - Martin, Leslie R.
AU - Friedman, Howard S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Research Grants AG-05590 and AG-08825 from the National Institute on Aging, by Research Grant MH-19604 from the U.S. Public Health Service, and by the Health and Behavior Network of the MacArthur Foundation. Some of these data were made available from the Terman Life-Cycle Study, begun by Lewis Terman. Further assistance was provided by Eleanor Walker, Albert Hastorf, and Robert Sears at Stanford University. Help in identifying, transcribing, and rating causal attributions was provided by Laura Brauninger, Julie Brody, Debbie Dormont, Rikki Feinstein, Eric Franz, Elissa Gartenberg, Denise Glenn, Karen Kantor, Margot Morrison, Madhuri Nannapaneni, Elysa Saldrigas, Kristin Shook, and Lynn (Hannah) Smitterberg at the University of Michigan.
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - Participants in the Terman Life-Cycle Study completed open-ended questionnaires in 1936 and 1940, and these responses were blindly scored for explanatory style by content analysis. Catastrophizing (attributing bad events to global causes) predicted mortality as of 1991, especially among males, and predicted accidental or violent deaths especially well. These results are the first to show that a dimension of explanatory style is a risk factor for mortality in a large sample of initially healthy individuals, and they imply that one of the mechanisms linking explanatory style and death involves lifestyle.
AB - Participants in the Terman Life-Cycle Study completed open-ended questionnaires in 1936 and 1940, and these responses were blindly scored for explanatory style by content analysis. Catastrophizing (attributing bad events to global causes) predicted mortality as of 1991, especially among males, and predicted accidental or violent deaths especially well. These results are the first to show that a dimension of explanatory style is a risk factor for mortality in a large sample of initially healthy individuals, and they imply that one of the mechanisms linking explanatory style and death involves lifestyle.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9280.00023
DO - 10.1111/1467-9280.00023
M3 - Article
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 9
SP - 127
EP - 130
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 2
ER -