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...

astract: happiness is a great gift that should be searched , found , seized and transmit to others . with regard the happiness influence on social and individual life and the widespread role of religion in human lives , the present study has been done with the aim investigate the relationship between religiosity and amount of happiness among young people in tehran . in this study were explored ...

The family is culturally the best place for the elderly at their post retirement life in India. They prefer their living arrangement with children and grandchildren which is significant for happiness. But globalization and urbanization have brought changes in this cultural system with an effect of socio-economy and political condition. The elderly population ceases to be functional, they are co...

Resource Allocation 1 In recent years, research efforts have attempted to identify variables that may moderate leaders' decision making styles. Variables that have been identified include divisibility of the resource, social scripts, and type of resource being divided. This study attempted to replicate these findings and examine the influence of personality variables as defined by the Myers-Bri...

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During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architectural spaces of Sufi shrines in South Asia affected ideas, feelings, behavior shrine-based communities. Acting as/Being a medium between humans’ thinking, memory, feeling, their surroundings, architecture has capacity to invoke various emotions such as happiness sadness them. The intensity with which can influence human emotion at times be ...

The purpose of the study is to trace development theme happiness in relation protagonist novel “Jane Eyre” by English Victorian writer Charlotte Brontè. It discovered that pursuit becomes an internal impetus driving plot novel, ensuring protagonist’s image and promoting such leitmotifs as creativity, love, freedom, naturalness, fight for one’s life. Particular emphasis placed on search individu...

We examined the role of anticipated happiness in negotiation settings. Anticipated happiness is the happiness that individuals expect to experience in the future if certain events do or do not occur. In two studies, we tested the argument that anticipated happiness initiates an approach goal, leading individuals to promote economic interests. Study 1 revealed that anticipated happiness was posi...

Situated in China’s market transition, this study examines the relationship between economic sectors and individuals’ happiness in post-reform urban China. Using datasets from the Chinese General Social Surveys 2003, 2006 and 2008, we find that workers in the state sector enjoy a subjective premium in well-being – reporting significantly higher levels of happiness than their counterparts in the...