Volume 6, Number 3

The Impact of Happiness on the Academic Performance of Undergraduates. (An Investigation of Undergraduates of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka)

  Authors

N.S. WGunasekara and A.J.Jayasekara, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

  Abstract

Happiness is a very deep concept which would be different from one to another. It is not easy to define as them exist multiple meanings and it has been combined with different fields. But with the modernization human beings have become like machines without feelings. Happiness goes far away from them as they have become money minded. The main goal of undergraduates is to being success in their academic life. Their short term and long-term academic plans are focused to achieve a higher-Grade Point Averages (GPA). If they got any failure in their academic life, they become most stressful people. Then it will make someone to being addicted to drugs and some bad habits or perhaps attempt to suicide also. It is important to find the impact of happiness on the academic performance as those topics are basically discussable in the society. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of happiness on the academic performance of Undergraduates. A sample of undergraduates of University of Ruhuna has taken for the study. Ordinal Regression and Spearman’s Correlation were used to achieve the main goal. Finally found that there is a positive impact of happiness on the academic performances of Undergraduates. Further, due to the results it can be concluded that most of the undergraduates are not particularly happy or unhappy.

  Keywords

Academic Performance, Happiness, Grade Point Averages, Undergraduates.