Country: United States

Study Design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:​ 

• Early adulthood or midlife

• Aging adults

Number of participants at baseline: 5,306 African American adults aged 35-84

Year of initial enrollment: 2000

Number of data collection waves: 3 primary waves; data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being:

• Optimism

• Mastery

• Social support / integration / cohesion

• Prosocial behavior or attitudes (e.g., volunteering, helping others)

Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times of well-being was assessed: Moderate

Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): High

Measures of physical health: ​

• Self-rated / questionnaire-based health

• Self-report medical history or medication use

• Measured anthropometrics, e.g., weight

• Biomarkers

• Genetics

• Adjudicated health outcomes

Access information:

This dataset is available to all researchers.

Researchers are required to submit an application to access this data. No fees are required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Lee H, Kubzansky L, Okuzono S, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, James P, Koga H, Kim E, Glover L, Sims M & Grodstein F. (2022). Optimism and risk of mortality among African-Americans: The Jackson heart study. Preventive medicine, 154, 106899.