This study examines gratitude among undergraduate students of a public university in Malaysia and its relationship with psychological well-being happiness. took 149 samples randomly from 235 who were asked to participate answering Gratitude Questionnaire-6, Ryff's Scale Psychological Well Being, Subjective Happiness Scale. Correlation analysis shows positive between students' supports the previ...

This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness Index can still be trusted once governments have proclaimed their main objective to be the pursuit—or even maximization— of this National Happiness Index. The answer to this investigation is clear-cut: as soon as the National Happiness Index has become a policy goal, it can no longer be trusted to...

subjective well-being, generally through survey methods. A number of psychologists and social scientists have drawn upon this work recently to argue that the American model of relatively limited government and a dynamic market economy corrodes happiness, whereas Western European and Scandinavian-style social democracies promote it. This paper argues that happiness research in fact poses no thre...

Virtual engagement of lives has been made possible with the advent social media. Almost 80% day are spent virtually on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, etc. Usage media to connect and communicate ones we care about is always healthy, termed as networking. Social dysfunction occurs when constant communication leads point where our real or offline life gets replaced by virtual onl...

Psychologists and economists take contradictory approaches to research on what psychologists call happiness or subjective well-being, and economists call subjective utility. A direct test of the most widely accepted psychological theory, set-point theory, shows it to be flawed. Results are then given, using the economists' newer "choice approach"--an approach also favored by positive psychologi...

Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time, and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that people make between having more time or having more money, and the extent to which people focus on each resource can have a signific...

From ancient history to recent times, philosophers, writers, self-help gurus, and now scientists have taken up the challenge of how to foster greater happiness. This chapter discusses why some people are happier than others, focusing on the distinctive ways that happy and unhappy individuals construe themselves and others, respond to social comparisons, make decisions, and self-reflect. We sugg...