Julia K Boehm
Biographic Data
| ID | 279641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia K Boehm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia K |
| FAMILY NAME | Boehm |
| SIGNATURE | BOEHM J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8360-9935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life Sustaining Well-Being Practices and Physiological Health Among Black Men
OBJECTIVE: To identify culturally grounded well-being practices among Black men in midlife and examine their associations with physiological health. METHODS: Analyzing data from the 2004-2005 Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we examined, 116 open-ended responses to the question, "What do you do to make your life go well?" Network topic modeling identified six topics: (1) interpersonal kindness and positive mindset; (2) caring for child…
Emotional balance, health, and resilience at the start of Covid-19 pandemic
Self-organizing systems can shift between stability and flexibility in response to perturbation, a potential adaptive mechanism for understanding biopsychosocial resilience. Inverse power law (IPL) structure, a frequency distribution that describes fractal patterns commonly produced by self-organization, produces measurements of stability and flexibility. This study applies these measures to emotional resilience at the start of the COVID-19 pande…
Exploring the association between self-esteem and blood pressure
High self-esteem is linked to favorable outcomes including better mental health and relationships, however, its impact on cardiovascular health is less understood. This study examined the relationship between self-esteem and blood pressure levels using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study ( M age = 54.53; 57% women; 20% non-White). We hypothesized that higher self-esteem would be associated with lower systolic and diastolic bl…
Sources of well-being and cardiovascular health
Resilience factors during the Coronavirus pandemic
This study investigates associations between resilience factors (optimism and positive affect) and self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal data were collected ( N = 292) across five assessments. Multilevel modeling tested main effects of the resilience factors and how they interacted with stress to predict health. Greater optimism and positive affect were prospectively associated with fewer depressive symptoms ( ps < 0.01) an…
Optimism and Cardiovascular Health
OBJECTIVE: Favorable cardiovascular health is associated with greater longevity free of cardiovascular disease. Although the prevalence of cardiovascular health decreases with age, less is known about protective factors that promote and preserve it over time. We investigated whether optimism was associated with better cardiovascular health over a 10-year period. METHODS: Participants included 3188 Black and White men and women from the Coronary A…
The Association of Optimism with Sleep Duration and Quality
Optimism is associated with better health outcomes with hypothesized effects due in part to optimism's association with restorative health processes. Limited work has examined whether optimism is associated with better quality sleep, a major restorative process. We test the hypothesis that greater optimism is associated with more favorable sleep quality and duration. Main analyses included adults aged 32-51 who participated in the Coronary Artery…
Positive Psychological Well-Being and Cardiovascular Disease
Initiating patient discussions about oocyte cryopreservation
Psychological well-being and restorative biological processes
Association Between Optimism and Serum Antioxidants in the Midlife in the United States Study
OBJECTIVE: Psychological and physical health are often conceptualized as the absence of disease; there is less research that addresses positive psychological and physical functioning. For example, optimism has been linked with reduced disease risk and biological dysfunction, but very little research has evaluated associations with markers of healthy biological functioning. Thus, we investigated the association between two indicators of positive h…
The heart's content
This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may be linked with CVD, focusing on the health behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, sleep quality and quantity, and food consumption) and biological functions (e.g., cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic processes) that are most relevant for car…
The cognitive and hedonic costs of dwelling on achievement-related negative experiences
Increasing evidence suggests that multiple cognitive and motivational processes underlie individual differences in happiness (Lyubomirsky, 2001, 2008). One behavior that is associated with (un)happiness is self-reflection or dwelling. We hypothesized that unhappy individuals would be inclined to dwell about themselves, and that this behavior would have a variety of adverse consequences. Three studies tested the prediction that, unlike their happi…
Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way
An 8-month-long experimental study examined the immediate and longer term effects of regularly practicing two assigned positive activities (expressing optimism and gratitude) on well-being. More important, this intervention allowed us to explore the impact of two metafactors that are likely to influence the success of any positive activity: whether one self-selects into the study knowing that it is about increasing happiness and whether one inves…
Happiness and memory
Three studies (two conducted in Israel and one in the United States) examined associations between self-rated dispositional happiness and tendencies to treat memories of positive and negative events as sources of enhanced or attenuated happiness through the use of "endowment" and "contrast." Although participants generally endorsed items describing happiness-enhancing tendencies more than happiness-diminishing ones, self-reported happiness was as…
Does Happiness Promote Career Success?
Past research has demonstrated a relationship between happiness and workplace success. For example, compared with their less happy peers, happy people earn more money, display superior performance, and perform more helpful acts. Researchers have often assumed that an employee is happy and satisfied because he or she is successful. In this article, the authors review evidence in support of an alternative hypothesis—namely, that happiness is a sour…
Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale
The heart's content
This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may be linked with CVD, focusing on the health behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, sleep quality and quantity, and food consumption) and biological functions (e.g., cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic processes) that are most relevant for car…
Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale
Resilience factors during the Coronavirus pandemic
This study investigates associations between resilience factors (optimism and positive affect) and self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal data were collected ( N = 292) across five assessments. Multilevel modeling tested main effects of the resilience factors and how they interacted with stress to predict health. Greater optimism and positive affect were prospectively associated with fewer depressive symptoms ( ps < 0.01) an…
Psychological well-being and restorative biological processes
Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale
Does Happiness Promote Career Success?
Past research has demonstrated a relationship between happiness and workplace success. For example, compared with their less happy peers, happy people earn more money, display superior performance, and perform more helpful acts. Researchers have often assumed that an employee is happy and satisfied because he or she is successful. In this article, the authors review evidence in support of an alternative hypothesis—namely, that happiness is a sour…
Happiness and memory
Three studies (two conducted in Israel and one in the United States) examined associations between self-rated dispositional happiness and tendencies to treat memories of positive and negative events as sources of enhanced or attenuated happiness through the use of "endowment" and "contrast." Although participants generally endorsed items describing happiness-enhancing tendencies more than happiness-diminishing ones, self-reported happiness was as…
The cognitive and hedonic costs of dwelling on achievement-related negative experiences
Increasing evidence suggests that multiple cognitive and motivational processes underlie individual differences in happiness (Lyubomirsky, 2001, 2008). One behavior that is associated with (un)happiness is self-reflection or dwelling. We hypothesized that unhappy individuals would be inclined to dwell about themselves, and that this behavior would have a variety of adverse consequences. Three studies tested the prediction that, unlike their happi…
Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way
An 8-month-long experimental study examined the immediate and longer term effects of regularly practicing two assigned positive activities (expressing optimism and gratitude) on well-being. More important, this intervention allowed us to explore the impact of two metafactors that are likely to influence the success of any positive activity: whether one self-selects into the study knowing that it is about increasing happiness and whether one inves…
The heart's content
This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may be linked with CVD, focusing on the health behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, sleep quality and quantity, and food consumption) and biological functions (e.g., cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic processes) that are most relevant for car…
Association Between Optimism and Serum Antioxidants in the Midlife in the United States Study
OBJECTIVE: Psychological and physical health are often conceptualized as the absence of disease; there is less research that addresses positive psychological and physical functioning. For example, optimism has been linked with reduced disease risk and biological dysfunction, but very little research has evaluated associations with markers of healthy biological functioning. Thus, we investigated the association between two indicators of positive h…
Positive Psychological Well-Being and Cardiovascular Disease
Initiating patient discussions about oocyte cryopreservation
Psychological well-being and restorative biological processes
The Association of Optimism with Sleep Duration and Quality
Optimism is associated with better health outcomes with hypothesized effects due in part to optimism's association with restorative health processes. Limited work has examined whether optimism is associated with better quality sleep, a major restorative process. We test the hypothesis that greater optimism is associated with more favorable sleep quality and duration. Main analyses included adults aged 32-51 who participated in the Coronary Artery…
Optimism and Cardiovascular Health
OBJECTIVE: Favorable cardiovascular health is associated with greater longevity free of cardiovascular disease. Although the prevalence of cardiovascular health decreases with age, less is known about protective factors that promote and preserve it over time. We investigated whether optimism was associated with better cardiovascular health over a 10-year period. METHODS: Participants included 3188 Black and White men and women from the Coronary A…
Resilience factors during the Coronavirus pandemic
This study investigates associations between resilience factors (optimism and positive affect) and self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal data were collected ( N = 292) across five assessments. Multilevel modeling tested main effects of the resilience factors and how they interacted with stress to predict health. Greater optimism and positive affect were prospectively associated with fewer depressive symptoms ( ps < 0.01) an…
Emotional balance, health, and resilience at the start of Covid-19 pandemic
Self-organizing systems can shift between stability and flexibility in response to perturbation, a potential adaptive mechanism for understanding biopsychosocial resilience. Inverse power law (IPL) structure, a frequency distribution that describes fractal patterns commonly produced by self-organization, produces measurements of stability and flexibility. This study applies these measures to emotional resilience at the start of the COVID-19 pande…
Exploring the association between self-esteem and blood pressure
High self-esteem is linked to favorable outcomes including better mental health and relationships, however, its impact on cardiovascular health is less understood. This study examined the relationship between self-esteem and blood pressure levels using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study ( M age = 54.53; 57% women; 20% non-White). We hypothesized that higher self-esteem would be associated with lower systolic and diastolic bl…
Sources of well-being and cardiovascular health
Life Sustaining Well-Being Practices and Physiological Health Among Black Men
OBJECTIVE: To identify culturally grounded well-being practices among Black men in midlife and examine their associations with physiological health. METHODS: Analyzing data from the 2004-2005 Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we examined, 116 open-ended responses to the question, "What do you do to make your life go well?" Network topic modeling identified six topics: (1) interpersonal kindness and positive mindset; (2) caring for child…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (9 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Optimism (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works)