Survival, and a modicum of indulgence in the sick role.
Serendipitously occasioned, interim findings from an exploratory study "which-as Whitehead once said of William James's pragmatism-'chiefly starts a log of hares for people to chase.'"3 The data, collected in a 1965 community survey of health, show that no indulgence in the sick role apparently entails greater mortality risk than does a modicum of such indulgence.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002140:California; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D012737:Sex Factors; D012803:Sick Role; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors