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Barker, Erin T.; Howard, Andrea L.; Galambos, Nancy L.; Wrosch, Carsten – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined how positive and negative affect covary within individuals over time and how patterns of association between affective traits and states relate to academic success across 4 years of university. Participants were 187 full-time first-year students at a large Canadian university who completed questionnaires about recent affective…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen
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Andersson, Hakan; Bergman, Lars R. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the importance of task persistence in young adolescence for successful educational and occupational attainment in middle adulthood. Data from age 13 (N = 1,092) and adult age (age 43 for women, N = 569 and age 47 for men, N = 393) were taken from the Swedish longitudinal research program…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Employment Level, Persistence, Educational Attainment