{"id":1053020,"date":"2010-12-27T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/positive-attitude-and-cheerfulness-not-related-to-college-success\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:33","slug":"positive-attitude-and-cheerfulness-not-related-to-college-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/positive-attitude-and-cheerfulness-not-related-to-college-success.php","title":{"rendered":"Positive attitude and cheerfulness not related to college success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_LY7APi0bufs\/RdPyM90hjoI\/AAAAAAAAAUs\/SZLpETnWedU\/s1600-h\/school.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3795c_school.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>This study investigated the relation between positive affect and college success for undergraduate students matriculating at 21 colleges and universities in the United States. <\/p><div><\/div><div>Positive affect &mdash; cheerfulness &mdash; was positively related to students&rsquo; 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 <b>negatively related to most objective college-success variables<\/b> (e.g., cumulative college grade-point average) recorded by the institution of matriculation, and not related to objective college outcomes reported by the student. <\/div><div><\/div><div><b>Positive affect<\/b> was thus associated with <b>&ldquo;positive illusions&rdquo;<\/b> about college-success variables.<p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/t575086063641125\/\">Positive Affect and College Success<\/a>. Journal of Happiness Studies - SpringerLink Journal, 2010.<\/p><\/div><div>Image source: OpenClipArt.org (public domain).<\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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