{"title":"The Power of Kindness and Positivity in the College Environment","authors":"Kayla Vasilko, J. Stewart","doi":"10.7771/2158-4052.1433","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The world is overwhelmed with mounting numbers of suicides, high college dropout rates, and low university retention. There are many complex and overwhelming causes behind these statistics. They include everything from bullying by peers and professors, family loss, and feelings of isolation. Are there also solutions? Our research suggests that there is one solution that can improve these negative eff ects no matter the causes behind them: kindness.","PeriodicalId":30386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7771/2158-4052.1433","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The world is overwhelmed with mounting numbers of suicides, high college dropout rates, and low university retention. There are many complex and overwhelming causes behind these statistics. They include everything from bullying by peers and professors, family loss, and feelings of isolation. Are there also solutions? Our research suggests that there is one solution that can improve these negative eff ects no matter the causes behind them: kindness.