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Determination
Positive emotional feeling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Determination is a positive emotional feeling that promotes persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles.[2][3] Determination occurs prior to goal attainment and serves to motivate behavior that will help achieve one's goal.
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Empirical research suggests that people consider determination to be an emotion; in other words, determination is not just a cognitive state, but an affective state.[4] In the psychology literature, researchers study determination under other terms, including challenge and anticipatory enthusiasm; this may explain one reason for the relative lack of research on determination compared to other positive emotions.[3][5]
In the field of psychology, emotion research focuses on negative emotions and the behaviors they prompt.[6] However, positive psychology delves into determination as a positive emotion driving people toward action, leading to significant results like persistence and success.