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Positive Affect and College Success
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010This study investigated the relation between positive affect and a variety of variables related to college success for undergraduate students matriculating at 21 academically selective 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. Positive affect—cheerfulness—is generally positively related to students’ self-rated academic abilities, self ...
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Diurnal variation in the Positive Affects
Motivation and Emotion, 1989We examined the circadian rhythm of two basic dimensions of mood—Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA). Subjects were 196 college students in two studies who completed a mood rating form approximately seven times a day for 1 week. Significant diurnal variation was found to exist in overall Positive Affect, and in four component content areas ...
David Watson +2 more
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The Positive Affect of the XP Methodology [PDF]
, 2005 This paper describes a longitudinal study on how the XP methodology acts as a positive mood inducer to SE teams. The results provide empirical evidence of the ability of these practices to alleviate the positive feeling amongst SE teams and there is a strong relationship between the positive moods experienced by the teams and the number of the XP ...
Tony Cowling +4 more
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Promoting Powerful Positive Affect
2016This chapter describes how one teacher’s innovative attempts to promote powerful positive affect (PPA) in her Mathematics classroom gave rise to the development of concerns and tensions related to her practice. Tensions and concerns are identified and discussed using the theoretical tools of Activity Theory (AT) (Engestrom, 1987) and the Stages of ...
Trudy-Ann Sweeney, Shaileigh Page
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Urethral pressure profile: Is it affected by position?
Neurourology and Urodynamics, 2002AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the difference between sitting and standing passive urethral pressure measurements, and to determine the accuracy of urethral pressure profilometry in each position. Urethral pressure profilometry was performed in the sitting and standing position in 98 women.
Emma Gorton +3 more
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Building Positive Affect in Mathematics
2015There has been a long and consistent history of poor affective outcomes in mathematics education however the findings reported in this book give hope that issues of the past can be overcome. Following a selective review of literature related to mathematics teaching and learning, the concept of mathematical identity is discussed as a way of addressing ...
Peter Grootenboer, Margaret Marshman
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Internet Addiction and Aggression: The Mediating Roles of Self-Control and Positive Affect
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2020Qutaiba Agbaria
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The Simple Structure of Positive Affect
Social Indicators Research, 2014The structure of affect is often studied through the circumplex: a circular model on which similar (i.e. highly correlated) states lie close to each other. While very informative, the circumplex lacks simple structure, as items spread more or less uniformly around its perimeter.
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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988D. Watson, L. Clark, A. Tellegen
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