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Does cheerfulness improve success in college?

Eric Barker
November 22, 2010

This study investigated the relation between positive affect and a variety of variables related to college success for undergraduate students matriculating at 21 academically selective 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. Positive affectâcheerfulnessâis generally positively related to studentsâ self-rated academic abilities, self-predicted likelihoods of various college outcomes, self-stated major and academic-degree intentions, and self-reported subjective college outcomes, but negatively related to most objective college-success variables (e.g., cumulative college grade-point average) recorded by the institution of matriculation, and not related to objective college outcomes reported by the student. Positive affect is thus associated with positive illusions about college-success variables.

Source: “Positive Affect and College Success” from Journal of Happiness Studies (27 October 2010), pp. 1-30.

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Title Does cheerfulness improve success in college?
Author Eric Barker
Date November 22, 2010 3:53 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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