Subjective happiness optimizes educational outcomes: Evidence from Filipino high school students

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volume

20

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Abstract

Subjective happiness has been found to be associated with key psychological outcomes. However, there is paucity of research that assessed how subjective happiness is related to a number of positive student outcomes in the educational setting. The objective of the study was to assess the associations of subjective happiness with academic engagement, flourishing, and school resilience among 606 Filipino high school students (mage = 13.87; nboys = 300, ngirls = 305, nmissing = 1) in the Philippine context. Results of path analysis demonstrated that subjective happiness positively predicted behavioral engagement (β = .08, p < .01), emotional engagement (β = .08, p < .01), flourishing (β = .17, p < .01), and school resilience (β = .18, p < .01) even after controlling for gender. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1017/sjp.2017.55

Disciplines

Psychology

Keywords

Happiness; Academic achievement

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