{"id":655,"date":"2018-02-13T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-02-13T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:59:20","slug":"ch-4-and-ch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2018\/02\/13\/ch-4-and-ch-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch. 4 and Ch. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4 regarded how optimism correlates to longevity and the results really surprised me.\u00a0 While chapter 5 told us that catastrophizing and too much worrying was strongly correlated to a shorter lifespan, optimism wasn&#8217;t shown to lead to a longer, healthier, life.\u00a0 Instead it was found that those who lived long, fulfilling lives grew happier as they got older, even if they weren&#8217;t exactly bubbly growing up.\u00a0 This is reassuring to me as I was never a particularly optimistic child and instead looked at things as realistically and logically as possible, which the chapter seemed to connect to favorable outcomes.\u00a0 I agree with chapter 5&#8217;s conclusions that people are capable of teaching themselves not to\u00a0catastrophize as I did that a few years ago by asking myself questions like, &#8220;How much control do I actually have over this situation?&#8221; and consciously changing my trains of thoughts in a similar manner to what the book described.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4 regarded how optimism correlates to longevity and the results really surprised me.\u00a0 While chapter 5 told us that catastrophizing and too much worrying was strongly correlated to a shorter lifespan, optimism wasn&#8217;t shown to lead to a longer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2018\/02\/13\/ch-4-and-ch-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65927,40545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-4","category-chapter-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}