Jane F. Owens

TL;DR: There was a strong positive association between level of optimism and postsurgical quality of life at 6 months and dispositional optimism (as assessed prior to surgery) correlated positively with manifestations of problem-focused coping and negatively with the use of denial.

TL;DR: The PSQI is more closely related to psychological symptom ratings and sleep diary measures than the ESS, and these instruments are not likely to be useful as screening measures for polysomnographic sleep abnormalities.

TL;DR: Optimism predicts a lower rate of rehospitalization after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and fostering positive expectations may promote better recovery, as well as independent of traditional sociodemographic and medical control variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested whether disposition measures of optimism, pessimism, and anxiety affected ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and mood and whether any cardiovascular effects of dispositions were moderated by mood.

TL;DR: Independent relationships between race and financial strain with sleep were observed despite statistical adjustment for other factors that might account for these relationships, and results do not suggest that assessed indices of SES moderate the race-sleep relationship, perhaps due to too few women of low SES in the study.