Top Research Papers on Happiness

This research aims to examine how to pursue happiness constructs Americans in the film The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Pursuing happiness is included in one of the American Dreams which means that everyone in America deserves their happiness. To investigate the analyses, this study uses Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis to find out the happiness in Americans. The results show that pursuing happiness is categorized as one of the American myths and the American characteristics. The characteristics of freedom, happiness, and success describe the American character in pursuing happiness as the my...

Summary In this article the author reflects on her upbringing, in which she was admonished to be cheerful and happy and not acknowledge unpleasantness. Consequently, as a young adult and a new psychotherapist she found herself detached from her own feelings as well as those of her clients. She recalls the evening that she became a more whole, more sensitive human being, and credits her therapy practice and her clients for keeping her that way.

+ Encouraged by the writings in this issue I’m sharing a view of happiness; as an everyday aspiration and accomplishment rather than an enormous concept with voracious goals that is out of reach. Whether that be a postdoctoral researcher’s contentment upon completion of a draft of their new article, or the sense of achievement a young doctoral student gifts themselves after reading a book chapter about research methodology without having to perpetually refer to a dictionary to find the meaning of each new word (which sadistically appears to be in every other sentence) or, the deep pride a supe...

每天都是热夏,温柔的旋律伴着波光跳跃的水珠,游过夏天的5米深水池,呼吸着池底的空气,清醒却沉迷。我是一个睡神,懒于伸手敲打键盘。起床了就选择用相机记录一段段惊喜而平和的日子,只想某一天能忽然发现自己与你们偶然交错的轨迹。没有寂寞没有彷徨,却不安分、不守纪、不听话,也不讲道理,μ2是双机器眼,反正你们的窘迫和伤情被我逮住就永远逃脱不了。

Subject Code Description Nr of Studies on this Subject H3 HAPPINESS: VIEWS ON HAPPINESS 0 H3.1 Happiness-attitude career 0 H3.1.1 Earlier happiness-attitudes 0 H3.1.2 Change in happiness-attitudes 0 H3.1.4 Later happiness-attitudes 0 H3.2 Current happiness-attitudes 1 H3.2.1 Concept of happiness 2 H3.2.2 Perceived sources of happiness 0 H3.2.2.1 . perceived sources of one's own happiness 13 H3.2.2.2 . perceived sources of every-bodies happiness 2 H3.2.3 Perceived happiness of others 1 H3.2.3.1 . perceived level of happiness of compatriots 3

There are four hormones which determine a human's happiness, and these hormones are Endorphins, Dopamine, serotonin, Serotonin and Oxytocin.

Wellbeing and sustainability are often presented as separate issues. At best, sustainable practises might have some beneficial side-effects on wellbeing (e.g., less air pollution means less respiratory ailments); at worst, the two are presented as mutually exclusive (i.e., sustainability necessarily means a lower standard of living). But I think the argument can be made for an opposite view: that if we focus on being well, we will find that sustainability emerges from that state. While there is still debate over definitions of wellbeing, it can be generally seen as a state in which our basic, ...

Although Lykken & Tellegen (1996) have shown that the stable component of happiness or subjective well-being is strongly influenced by genetic factors, One needn't permit one's own or one's child's genetic steersman have his head. One can combat the "happiness thieves" (depression, fear, irritability) and one can achieve happiness increments through a varied diet of constructive activity.

In this paper I first point out that happiness might of its nature be unamenable to the calculating ‘plan of life’ approach, and argue that the incompatible model of a personal search, by no means implying ‘ontological subjectivity’ though, fits in more smoothly with the idea. Secondly, I discuss the arguments assembled by Aquinas for a view of this type. I argue thirdly that although we can show there is some one thing in which all happiness consists, whatever it may be it must be incompatible with temporal life, whether or not any other is possible. Hence a discussion which excludes ‘transce...

Happiness has been morally troubling individuals and communities for over two and a half thousand years, cognitively pushing them to enrich their own lives and the poleis they belong to. Only rarely are we aware of the extent to which what we call happiness is credited to a type of e ff ective moral agent who manifests a blend of virtue and duty. Therefore, this article will outline a traditional approach to classifying human moral activity, fi rst and foremost a well -known distinction of the maxim of being happy and worthy of happiness, and a derivation of the e ff ect resulting from such disti...

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Patient satisfaction surveys are asking tough questions about quality of care, and standard national surveys may be coming sooner than you think.

Although the role of positive emotions is important in sales, personal happiness remains understudied in the selling context. Grounded in broaden-and-build theory, this study aims to examine the relationships among personal happiness, job involvement, job satisfaction and salesperson flourishing. For salespeople, the new demands of a connected world have largely blurred the boundaries between their personal life and work life. It has allowed emotions from their personal life to spill over into their workplace. Data from 137 salespeople in the retail context in India lend support for the propos...

This 68-page paper was written to complete the Learning Design and Technology Master's program and the results from the usability study were presented at the 2020 Technology, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation.

“W hat in God’s name do you think you’re doing here? What do you rea lly want to do anyway?” “Really want to do,” Gatlin repeats softly, still gazing out over the forest. Toward the desert. A pause. “Stare at the sun,” he says. “What?” “Stare it down.” Ballantine sighs. “Will, you’re crazy.” “Stare it out,” says Gatlin smiling. “Stand on this tower and stare at the sun until it goes . . . black.”2

Being born in a war sets a person in a fighting status ready to prepare for a free life and to refrain from external dominance, it appears. Such a precondition has apparently defined my existence. Fighting optimism! My parents were hardworking persons. My father, Bernardus De Keukeleire, was a dedicated mason working in a small private business that he ran together with his three brothers. They started sometime in the interbellum, the period between World War I and World War II. In that time, the building of houses required arduous efforts, and most of the construction labor had to be by hand....

The author investigates the different needs to acquire happiness depending on your culture, socioeconomic status, sexuality, gender, race etcetera.

หองสมดเปนแหลงคนควาหาความรและเปนแหลงการเรยนรตลอดชวต เปนแหลงชวยปลกฝงนสยรกการอานเพอเพมพนความรททนสมยอยเสมอ การสงเสรมใหมการใชหองสมดเปนแหลงเรยนรและศกษาคนควาอยางมประสทธภาพวธการหนงคอ การเสรมสรางหองสมดใหมบรรยากาศแหงการเรยนรอยางมความสข หองสมด มหาวทยาลยสโขทยธรรมาธราช (STOU Library) ใหความสำคญกบการสรางบรรยากาศแหงความสขในการเรยนร จงมการดำเนนโครงการเพอสงเสรมใหหองสมด มสธ. กาวไปสความเปนหองสมดแหงการเรยนรอยางมความสข ภายใตชอโครงการ “Happy STOU Library หองสมดแหงการเรยนรอยางมความสข” (Happy STOU Library: Happy Brain Happy Workplace) ซงประกอบไปดวยกจกรรม 6 กจกรรม เพอสรางบรรยากาศแหงความสขในการเรยนร ไดแก 1) กจกรรมยมไมอ...

Abstract The main objective of the following text is to focus on and exemplify the basic axioms of theories of happiness that come from historical and philosophical tradition and are still, at least in some cases, relevant nowadays. As philosophers claim, the longing for happiness is a naturally human desire that has taken various forms in their thinking: happiness was connected with beatitude (Aristotle), with self-preservation (Spinoza), social helpfulness (Hume), living in the present moment without expostulations or false illusions (Comte-Sponville), and others. The desire for happiness me...

Happiness leads to more sustainable behavior because happiness increases interest in prosocial activities. Furthermore, happiness leads to more openness to negative information and to more forward-thinking. This study measures happiness as overall life satisfaction. It is hypothesized that overall life satisfaction is positively associated with more sustainable behavior through increased awareness of climate change. The relationship is tested performing (logit)regressions and mediation analysis using the data from the Hopebarometer 2018. The results provide evidence in support of the rel...

Nowadays, people are enjoying much more ease and comfort than ever, but they don't accordingly think that they have secured true happiness in life. They have lost the meaning of life and suffered from morbid happiness. For the reasons mentioned above, we teachers should self-examine profoundly so as to initiate vigorous reforms in ideas, contents and methods of the course of morality. Teachers can conduct moral lessons in a happy manner, the purpose of which is to help students build up correct sense of happiness, experience happiness and cultivate the ability to enjoy happiness.

The author's point of this view is How to make the library work to become happy and How to make reading become a happy part of their lives,and the Library Service must be the direction of development toward a happy

An increasing body of research has addressed what a tourism experience is and how it should best be measured and managed. One conclusion has been to recommend observational methods such as facial expression analysis. The chapter uses facial expression analysis to determine whether the emotions of employees in the tourism industry affect the emotions of their customers, following a pattern of emotional contagion. The findings show that emotional valence and arousal are both contagious. Furthermore, the findings show that arousal is less contagious at a higher likelihood to recommend, likely due...

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It was Dominique Bourel's 60th birthday yesterday. Though he is not too strongly involved in the German academical system, he knows enough people in it to be entitled to a jubilee "Kolloquium". Maybe because he is not a German Professor, he was given not the full 3-days-of-very-long-lectures-programme, but a 3-hour-firework retracing the life paths of "Happy Jews" from the 18th to the 21st century. This main theme, as organisator Christoph Schulte explained in his introductory speech, was ins...

The treatment restored intestinal barrier integrity, modulated serum metabolites, and helped with behavioral symptoms, and Hsiao et al. were able to ameliorate behavioral abnormalities in a mouse model of ASD by treating animals with the human gut bacterium Bacteriodes fragilis.

Results from an evaluation project examining the impact on student learning of kuraCloud, an online blended learning platform are presented, suggesting that the use of more blended approaches to such teaching has enabled students to feel more connected to the deeper learning purpose than in previous traditional lab-based sessions.

Hospitals are rarely beautiful places and most are not conducive to making patients feel better, so how can they be improved?

Agriculture & Fisheries[1] Agriculture & Fisheries[1]Animal welfare [2]cows [3]dairy animals [4]dairy cows [5]Farm animals [6] milk production [7]Norway [8]Forskning.no [9] To succeed with farm animals, you should enjoy yourself and be kind and calm. The result will be happy cows and more milk. Researchers at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute have identified a clear link between the behaviour of farmers and their cows. “When farmers pet and touch the animals, when they are calm and patient, the result is positive behaviour,” says researcher Kristian Ellingsen. Anxiety and stress in farmers le...

Happiness is a kind of psychological experience in realizing the most important needs,desires and intentions in a lifetime.The three principles of happiness are consciousness principle which coordinates consciousness in happiness with happiness' objective nature;choice principle which accords the choice for happiness with a person' s own gift,ability,fate and morals;action principle that combines the efforts on happiness with one's own behavior.

Happiness is the human's eternal theme and the true value and ultimate goal of education is to help every student achieve a happy life.Happy education is unity between internal and external,subjectivity and autonomy,and direct and indirect education.Educators themselves should first become life tutors with a sense of happiness and try to improve students' personality by constructing happy classroom.Besides,educators should employ effective strategies to cultivate students' happy character,lead them to understand and discern the essence of happiness and strike out a happy path by their own acti...

The night float rotation and its unpredictability quickly lectured me on the value of knowing the patients beyond what was written on the sign-out list, and every day after the teams’ sign out, I would start my “preventative rounding” on the sickest patients of the wards to get a sense of their baseline status.

Institutional and behavioral theories of democracy abound but rarely intersect. Do executive lawmaking power and prowess condition democratic regime support in presidential democracies? We develop theoretical expectations linking the lawmaking powers of the president and mass regime support and test them by analyzing survey data from eighteen Latin American countries over ten years. As hypothesized, results indicate that preference for, and satisfaction with, democracy is highest where presidents have moderate legislative powers and success and lowest where presidents either dominate policymak...

Research points to incredible future challenges for the students we teach and for their children. They will have a right to ask of us: 'How could you have known and done nothing, as you stole our future and passed costs onto the environment and those yet unborn'.

Abstract: As positive mental health (PMH) has a significant impact on general and mental health, it is an important target for interventions. Cut points are a useful basis for identifying participants with a greater need for such interventions. Representative ( n = 9,440) and student ( n = 22,833) samples from Germany, Russia, the US, and China were reanalyzed. Two different anchors were used to determine optimal cut points for the PMH-scale: (1) a combined measure of PMH-related questionnaires and (2) the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF). A kernel-based method to determine optimal...

Dental nurse Katie Dullaghan has launched a crowdfunding page to help roll out her innovative oral health education initiative beyond its birthplace of Liverpool.

Understanding the meaning and concept of thanks, thanksgiving, happiness and also the relation among these terms in Quran and Hadith, are the necessities, which have been less considered. This paper, explains these concepts, demonstrates and confirms the relation between happiness and thanksgiving, by analysis-descriptive method and with respect to Quran and Hadith. In this research, after the explanation of thanks and happiness concepts, the author is looking for the relation between them and exploring the type of this relation. The results show the existence of a subtle, latent, yet definite...

Results indicated high internal consistencies, satisfactory test–retest validities, and adequate convergent and discriminant validities with various constructs including a biological marker of stress (salivary cortisol) and support for the distinction between contentment and inner-peace, two related markers of authentic happiness.

As Lyubominsky, Sheldon, and Schkade (2005) pointed out, over the course of a few decades, various surveys have consistently shown that most people frequently think of happiness and how to pursue it. Despite the importance we give happiness, the term itself is unclear, leaving its pursuit to the individual and not to policy. I explore in this paper self-reported levels of happiness (Subjective Well-Being), the “architecture of sustainable happiness”, the origins of our happiness, the notion of negative feedback for people with low levels of happiness, and interventions to improve happiness. Ho...

The Happiness Indicator (www.happinessindicator.nl) is an online tool designed to make people more aware of their own happiness. Participants periodically record how happy they feel on the present day and how happy they have felt over the past month, using the Happiness Comparer. They also have the option of indicating in the Happiness Diary how happy they felt during the various activities of the previous day. Participants receive feedback in the form of a comparison with their earlier scores and with the average scores of similar participants. The theory behind the website is that a keener a...

To lay the cornerstone for a happy life is the ultimate value demand of education.From the perspective of positive psychology,happiness is derived from not only the subjective experience,but also the objective existence,containing both joyfulness and meaning.It is enjoyable and developmental,belonging to both individuals and society,which is the harmony and unity of subjectivity and objectivity,joyfulness and meaning,enjoyment and development,individual and society.Therefore,education of happiness is to enable the educated individuals to perceive happiness from the subjective feelings and obje...

Organizational achievement is determined by a number of factors, particularly human resources. Human resources with high levels of happiness will affect productivity and the smoothness of tasks performed. Since employees spend most of their day working in an organization, it is obvious that the organizational environment will affect the employees’ emotional well-being. This article discusses the meaning of happiness at workplace and the leadership factors that influence employees’ happiness. Other than adopting effective leadership concepts, leaders who have the skills to listen and think abou...

Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success...Distilling the practical wisdom from all the recent scientific study of happiness by psychologists and economists, Ross claims that happiness isn't about maintaining a forced smile or a self-centred concern to maximise pleasure and minimise pain, but about living a satisfying life of endeavour, achievement and mutually rewarding relationsh...

Pursuit of happiness is an eternal theme and a development goal of human society.Happiness is the sense of happiness,the psychological situation and the psychological experience with which people are satisfied when people are striving for the intended target and ideals of life and achieved them.Happiness index is a comprehensive index system used to measure and evaluate people's happiness,which is an objective index reflecting subjective feelings.Being closely related to each other and very complex,the relationship between national happiness and happiness index is neither positive nor negative...

ABSTRACT Many organisations believe that workplaces ought to be happy spaces. However, actions to promote happiness often overlook the variety of impacts emotions may have. While the current literature on emotional labour focuses on feeling rules, emotional displays and normative control, this article links happiness to materiality by exploring affects and the power relations produced. After reviewing the literature on happiness and emotional labour, this article investigates the circulation of emotions, or how emotions become ‘sticky’ to objects and bodies while having different flows of inte...

Happiness among people is a goal of our society, but there is still no absolute agreement on how to measure happiness. This study gives a comprehensive overview of the key literature and findings associated with happiness and a comparative overview of the most common approaches to measure happiness. Utilizing a survey approach, a representative selection of the Norwegian population (1.000 respondents) was asked 1) What they perceive as key attributes of happiness (descriptive), 2) how they rate their own happiness, and 3) their happiness relative to the rest of the population. The responses...

While the pursuit of happiness in the present pervades popular narratives of happiness and the good life, the work of Adorno and Arendt casts doubt on the possibility of this lucrative goal. For Adorno, happiness occurs only in memory, while Arendt is sceptical about the possibility of experience between past and future and uses happiness to demonstrate her suspicion. Meanwhile, GH Mead offers an alternative that rejects these counter-intuitive perspectives by reaffirming that all experiences necessarily take place in the present. This article will assess each of these claims alongside the vie...

Happiness is a universal concept and experience that cuts across cultures and religions. Nonetheless, the particular manifestations and descriptions of happiness are culturally informed and contextualized. This essay explores the concepts of happiness and the pursuit of happiness in Islamic thought, arguing that the pursuit of happiness is envisaged differently in Islamic thought. Rather than the more transient forms of happiness celebrated in modern, secularized or hedonistic cultures, the pursuit of happiness in Islamic thought is concerned above all with the attainment of enduring happiness...

Could the secret to happy patients be found in a smile? Dr. Richard Castellano offers his observations and advice.

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual's future reemployment probability and the reentry wage. Residual life satisfaction displays higher (or lower) satisfaction levels than would be predicted by a number of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. This paper is the first to show that h...