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Positivity: The Dispositional Basis of Happiness

verfasst von: Gian Vittorio Caprara, Nancy Eisenberg, Guido Alessandri

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 2/2017

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The present study examined in a stringent developmental model whether positivity, conceptualized as a pervasive mode of appraising, viewing, and perceiving life from a positive stance, predicts chronic positive affectivity across time or vice versa. Participants [263 participants (47 % males)], aged 15.5 at the beginning of the study and 23.5 at the end, reported on measures of positivity and dispositional positive affect four times. Longitudinal findings corroborated the posited paths of relations, with positivity significantly predicting positive affectivity across time rather than vice versa.

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Titel: Positivity: The Dispositional Basis of Happiness
verfasst von: Gian Vittorio Caprara
Nancy Eisenberg
Guido Alessandri
Publikationsdatum: 12.02.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9728-y

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