Does Happiness Promote Career Success?

By Julia K. Boehm, Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Reciprocal Relationships between Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) and Job Satisfaction: A Cross-Lagged Analysis (2011, background): “We suggest that job satisfaction is a significant predictor of LMX for two reasons: First, happiness researchers (Diener, Kesebir, & Lucas, 2008; Boehm & Lyubomirsky, 2008; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005) have revealed substantial influences of happiness measures (including job satisfaction) on…”
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “It is also likely that it is more pleasant to interact with happy people (Boehm & Lyubomirsky, 2008), or it could be that happy coworkers are more cooperative than their less happy peers (Miles et al., 2002).”
A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, background): “Boehm and Lyubomirsky (2008) reviewed evidence showing that happy people tend to be more popular and likable.”
Happiness and Productivity (2015, unknown): “Compte and Postlewaite (2004) extend this line of work; they seek to identify circumstances in which biased perceptions might increase welfare.”
Workplace happiness, well-being and their relationship with psychological capital: A study of Hungarian Teachers (2019, background): “…health, and live longer (Roysamb et al. 2003; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005a, b), perform better, can cope better with stressful events (Wood and Joseph, 2010), have more positive workplace relationships and are more satisfied with their jobs (Boehm and Lyubomirsky 2008; Connolly and Viswesvaran 2000).”
Antecedents and Outcomes of Objective Versus Subjective Career Success: Competing Perspectives and Future Directions (2018, methodology): “In sum, we conclude that some of the antecedents that have been reviewed as predictors of career success in former work (e.g., Boehm & Lyubomirsky, 2008; Feldman & Ng, 2007; Ng et al., 2005; Ng & Feldman, 2014a; Ng & Feldman, 2014b) can also be modeled as outcomes of career success, implying…”
Well-Being, Personal Success and Business Performance Among Entrepreneurs: A Two-Wave Study (2018, background): “As concerns satisfaction and happiness, although some authors claim this cannot easily be improved (Boehm and Lyubomirsky 2008; Lyubomirsky 2001; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005b), other theoretical perspectives and empirical data suggest it can through intentional J. Dijkhuizen et al. activities and…”
Career Engagement: Investigating Intraindividual Predictors of Weekly Fluctuations in Proactive Career Behaviors (2014, background): “…by different studies which have shown that positive mood and emotions promote proactive behavior and planning (Bindl, Parker, Totterdell, & Hagger‐ Johnson, 2011) and enable success in a variety of areas (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005), including one’s career (Boehm & Lyubomirsky, 2008).”
Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, unknown): “Boehm and Lyubomirsky (2008) reviewed studies that show that happy people are more popular and likable.”
The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being (2013, background): “Boehm and Lyubomirsky (2008) reviewed evidence showing that happy people tend to be more popular and likable.”
Happiness at work. (2010, unknown): “Lyubomirsky and her colleagues (2001; Boehm and Lyubomirsky 2008; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005) have suggested that happiness is 50% genetically determined (top-down), 10% environmentally caused and 40% potentially modiﬁ-able by intentional happiness-enhancing activities and practices (bottom-up).”