A better way to manage stress wellbeing
Optimistic people are more likely to live longer, according to a new US study. Those with a positive mindset were found, on average, to have an 11-15 per cent longer lifespan than pessimists, with more chance of living until the age of 85.
The study was conducted using two groups of people enlisted for different studies - 70,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 1,500 men in the Veterans' Health Study. Their levels of optimism and overall health were accessed, as well as exercise and diets, and how much they smoked and drank. "Evidence from randomised control trials suggest that interventions, such as imagining a future in which everything has turned out well, or more intensive cognitive-behavioural therapy, can increase levels of optimism."
Professor Hood, chair of developmental psychology in society at the University of Bristol, runs a course called"the science of happiness" and reiterated the idea that optimists deal with stress better.
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