| | FEATURED CONTENT |  |  | Are you a workplace Pollyanna? | | Look on the bright side of things at work? You could be setting yourself up for frustration. A new study from researchers at Stanford University and East Carolina University finds that “disaffected Pollyannas” who don’t get the salaries they expect are more likely to have switched companies than those with less positive views of their prospects. Eight years into their careers, these sunny folks also have lower job satisfaction and even less overall happiness with their lives. The paper, which was published in the September issue of the Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, studied 132 MBA students, rating them on a scale that measures positive or negative “affect” and asking them about their salary expectations over the course of their careers. As the folks over at BPS Occupational Digest point out, the data showed that for every one-unit increase in positive perspective, participants expected an additional $100,000 increase in lifetime earnings. One can always hope, right? » Read more | | | | |
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