In 1974, the King of small Himalayan nation Bhutan announced to world that his country would no longer pursue rapid economic growth like all other nations. Instead, measure its success in terms gross national happiness. However, king did not explain how he was going Anyway, initiative welcomed, and today we see concept happiness has moved from spheres poetry philosophy sphere real politics econ...

This letter examines the relationship between inequality and happiness in urban China using a large-scale survey administered in 31 cities in September 2002. We find that those who perceive income distribution to be unequal report lower levels of happiness, although results differ between high and low income individuals. We also examine the effect of reference group income on reported happiness...

background: positive psychology approach is the manifestation of changes in psychology, from dealing with psychopathological damages to optimizing life quality. happiness, a subset of the positive psychology, is considered to be a positive characteristic and one of human’s psychological needs. during the past decade, happiness has occupied a special place in the field of developmental psycholog...

background:   happiness is a concept, which due to its role in mental health, has been taken account by the researchers recently. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, emotional intelligence and feeling happiness among students of tabriz university. methods: this study was a descriptive and analytical one. the statistical population of ...

An examination of emotions reported on 12 million personal blogs along with a series of surveys and laboratory experiments shows that the meaning of happiness is not fixed; instead, it systematically shifts over the course of one’s lifetime. Whereas younger people are more likely to associate happiness with excitement, as they get older, they become more likely to associate happiness with peace...

The aim of the present study is to examine the relationships between Internet addiction, subjective vitality, and subjective happiness. The participants were 328 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Online Cognition Scale, the Subjective Vitality Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. According to the results, subjective vitality and subjective happine...

A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative survey. A randomized controlled experiment enables unique analyses on data quality and distributions, which suggest superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only self-assessed discrete happiness data...

The fact that Kantian beneficence is constrained by Kantian respect appears to seriously restrict the Kantian’s moral response to agents who have embraced self-destructive ends. In this paper I defend the Kantian duties of love and respect by arguing that Kantians can recognize attempts to get an agent to change her ends as a legitimate form of beneficence. My argument depends on two key premis...

This paper investigates whether the level of happiness and integrated process of changes in happiness are the same. Using the daily data of two waves of four and six months each, we found that the level of happiness is stationary, whereas the integrated process of changes is non-stationary with a rising trend, implying that they are different series. An examination of the causes of the differen...

An examination of emotions reported on 12 million personal blogs along with a series of surveys and laboratory experiments show that the meaning of happiness is not fixed; instead, it systematically shifts over the course of one’s lifetime. Whereas younger people are more likely to associate happiness with excitement, as they get older, they become more likely to associate happiness with peacef...