According to research on causes and characteristics of subjective well-being, which of the following has been found to be true?
a. Happiness leads to the kinds of behavior which bring about success.
c. In multicultural societies, subjective well-being is high for people with a strong ethnic identity.
b. External locus of control has a strong positive correlation with life satisfaction.
d. The relationship between life satisfaction and future orientation was decreased with age for American managers.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Research tends to show that happiness, or subjective well-being, leads to the kinds of
behaviors that bring about success (Boehm & Lyubomirsky, 2008). People high in subjective well-being "are more likely to secure job interviews, to be evaluated more positively by supervisors once they obtain a job, [and] to show superior performance and productivity" (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005, p. 8).
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