PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Framingham Heart Study, Heritability, Termite
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Longevity and a healthy life style: how important is a healthy life-style for our longevity (i. e. , how long we live, 3457 framingham heart study participants who were 30 to 49 years of age in 1948, measures. [example: bmi = 76 / 1. 762 = 24. 5] Personality and longevity: lewis terman initiated a longitudinal study of gifted children in the 1920s, the participants in this study called themselves the termites. , howard s. friedman published numerous articles on predictors of longevity based on this study. In 1921-22, lewis terman recruited over 1500 children (age 11) for a longitudinal study (iq > 135). In 1991, a termite" would have been 80 years old. Leading causes of death were cardiovascular diseases and cancer. 58% were actually alive, 42% had died. Cheerfulness and mortality: cheerfulness was assessed by parent and teacher ratings in childhood, cheerfulness was measured with the items.
