J Psychosom Res October 2013 PMID 24119947

Emotion suppression and mortality risk over a 12-year follow-up.

Benjamin P Chapman, Kevin Fiscella, Ichiro Kawachi, Paul Duberstein, Peter Muennig

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The study investigated the link between emotion suppression and mortality risk over 12 years using data from a US national survey, finding that higher emotion suppression scores were associated with increased risk of death from all causes, including both cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Results showed that individuals at the 75th percentile of emotion suppression had a hazard ratio of 1.35 for all-cause mortality, meaning they were 35% more likely to die than those at the 25th percentile, with similar trends observed for cancer and cardiovascular deaths.
The findings suggest that suppressing emotions may contribute to earlier death, highlighting the need for further research into the biological and social mechanisms behind this association and how different types of mortality relate to emotion regulation.

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