Positive affect during adolescence and health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach.
Eric S KimRenae WilkinsonSakurako S OkuzonoMingyang SongKoichiro ShibaRichard G CowdenTyler J VanderWeelePublished in: PLoS medicine (2024)
Enhanced positive affect during adolescence is linked with a range of improved health/well-being outcomes in adulthood. These findings suggest the promise of testing scalable positive affect interventions and policies to more definitively assess their impact on outcomes.