Psychological Well-being Effect on Diabetes Risk

Dr. Julia Boehm, Assistant Professor for
Crean College
, Department of Psychology was recently published in
Health Psychology,
a respected journal publication of the
American Psychological Association
.

Dr. Boehm’s research investigates the association between psychological well-being and incident diabetes. Creating the first study of it’s kind, associating positive psychological health to the probability of being diagnosed with incident diabetes. As Dr. Boehm states, “We found that people with greater levels of life satisfaction and emotional vitality have a
reduced
risk for physician-diagnosed diabetes.”

The abstract is available
here
, along with the full publication available for purchase. Print will be available in the near future.



 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Dr. Boehm on this exciting achievement in research!