Positive Affect and College Success |
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Authors: | Carol Nickerson Ed Diener Norbert Schwarz |
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Institution: | 1. Champaign, IL, 61820, USA 2. Department of Psychology m/c 716, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA 3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Abstract: | 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 affect??cheerfulness??is generally positively related to students?? 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. |
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