Interesting Intersections

We looked at the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and life satisfaction, positive emotions, and negative emotions. 

SES and life satisfaction: students with higher SES reported having higher overall life satisfaction. 

SES and positive emotions: students with higher SES reported overall higher positive emotions. 

SES and negative emotions: SES was not reliably associated with intensity of negative emotions. 

We found that students with high SES still had similar levels of stress as those with low SES. In conclusion, money can buy you happiness but cannot buy you no stress.

We looked at the relationship between positive emotions and year of study and found a significant drop in positive emotions from Year 1 to 2, then no other significant differences among the other years.

We looked at the relationship between negative emotions and year of study and found that those in year 5+ reported more negative emotions than in the other years.  

We looked at the relationship between close relationships and year of study and a significant drop in close relationships from year 1 to 2, then no other significant differences among the other years. 

We looked at the relationship between positive emotions and program and found no statistical differences between positive emotions and program. 

We looked at the relationship between positive emotions and program and found no statistical differences between positive emotions and program.