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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?
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Numerous studies show that happy individuals are successful across multiple life domains, including marriage, friendship, income, work performance, and health. The authors suggest a conceptual model to account for these findings, arguing that the happiness-success link exists not only because success makes people happy, but also because positive affect engenders success. Three classes of evidence--crosssectional, longitudinal, and experimental--are documented to test their model. Relevant studies are described and their effect sizes combined meta-analytically. The results reveal that happiness is associated with and precedes numerous successful outcomes, as well as behaviors paralleling success. Furthermore, the evidence suggests that positive affect--the hallmark of well-being--may be the cause of many of the desirable characteristics, resources, and successes correlated with happiness. Limitations, empirical issues, and important future research questions are discussed.
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“Lyubomirsky, King, and Diener (2005) demonstrated that happiness is correlated with, predictive of, and causally determinative of success in multiple domains of life including social, relational, financial, work and (mental and physical) health domains.”
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“Evidence has accrued that addressing specific skills in these domains can promote overall well-being [18,19].”
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“What remained constant across different studies is the formulation that happiness is an antecedent, correlate and predictor of positive psychological outcomes (Parks, Della Porta, Pierce, Zilca, & Lyubomirsky, 2012;Lyubomirsky, Diener, & King, 2005).”
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“In general, people who are happier with their day-to-day life tend to be more extroverted, energetic, lively, sociable, interested in exploring new things, and engaged in social interactions (Lin et al., 2017; Lyubomirsky et al., 2005).”
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“Positive affect is strongly related happiness and success (Lyubomirsky et al. 2005), thereby promoting adherence to physical activities (Schneider et al. 2009).”
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“The most successful of these interventions have a variety of components and interactive elements to encourage engagement (including Beating the Blues, which is approved for use by the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [35,36,37,38,39,40].)”
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“prior research suggesting that both positive affect (e.g. Fredrickson, 2013; Lyubomirsky et al., 2005) and negative affect (e.g. Keltner & Kring, 1998) contribute to social connections, and that positive affect may especially so (see Clark & Watson, 1988; Watson, Clark, McIntyre, & Hamaker, 1992; Taylor, Pearlstein et al., 2017; Taylor, Pearlstein, & Stein, 2020).”
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“The perception that we are connected to others is a basic human need that is linked to mental and physical well-being (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018; Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010, 2015; Lyubomirsky et al., 2005).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lyubomirsky, S., King, L., & Diener, E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 2005-11
- Volume
- 131
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 803-855
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W2108577177
- Cited by
- 7,143
- References
- 437
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- happiness, positive affect, success, well-being, life satisfaction, employee performance, income, marriage, friendship, conceptual model
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Affect, Happiness, Health, Humans, Income, Job Satisfaction, Marriage, Models, Psychological, Negativism, Personal Satisfaction, Time Factors, Friends
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