The intense desire to achieve happiness is linked to increased well-being in collectivist societies. However, research showed that the emotional payback of valuing happiness only applies to older adults but not to younger undergraduate students. Existing studies on how valuing happiness predicts well-being in different populations use cross-sectional designs, offering limited evidence on the temporal precedence between valuing happiness and wellbeing outcomes. Hence, this study examined the association between valuing happiness and positive affect among Filipino adolescents via a three-wave cross-lagged panel design. Results of cross-lagged panel structural equation modeling demonstrated that valuing happiness was positively associated with subsequent positive affect even after controlling for auto-regressor effects. The results are discussed in terms of the implications of valuing happiness among adolescents.

渴望获得幸福的强烈愿望与集体社会的幸福感增强有关。但是，研究表明，重视幸福的情感回报只适用于老年人，而不适用于年轻的本科生。现有的关于评估幸福感如何在不同人群中预测幸福感的研究使用横断面设计，提供了关于幸福感与幸福感之间的时间优先性的有限证据。因此，本研究通过三波交叉滞后面板设计研究了菲律宾青少年对幸福感与积极影响之间的关联。交叉滞后的面板结构方程建模结果表明，重视幸福感甚至在控制了自回归效应后，仍与随后的积极影响呈正相关。根据评估青少年幸福感的含义对结果进行了讨论。