Older adults have been shown to describe their happiness as lower in arousal when compared to younger adults. In addition, older adults prefer low arousal positive emotions over high arousal positive emotions in their daily lives. We experimentally investigated whether or not changing a few words in the description of happiness could influence a person's rating of their happiness. We randomly a...

We highlight recent research examining how people should manage their most precious resources — time and money — to maximize their happiness. Contrary to people’s intuitions, happiness may be less contingent on the sheer amount of each resource available and more on how people both think about and choose to spend them. Overall, focusing on time leads to greater happiness than focusing on money....

Happiness surveys based on self-report can generate unreliable data due to respondents’ imperfect retrospection, vulnerability to context, and arbitrariness in measuring happiness. To overcome these problems, this article proposes to incorporate a method of measuring happiness, which is developed by Ng (1996) based on Edgeworth’s notion of “Just Perceivable Increment” of happiness, with the Day...

The aim of this study was to obtain a greater insight into the association between vacations and happiness. We examined whether vacationers differ in happiness, compared to those not going on holiday, and if a holiday trip boosts post-trip happiness. These questions were addressed in a pre-test/post-test design study among 1,530 Dutch individuals. 974 vacationers answered questions about their ...

the importance of concerning happiness and happiness- making items in organizations and enterprises comes from the fact that it can positively affect productivity through increasing personnel positive emotions and decreasing their negative emotions. as such, the current research has been developed in order to evaluate the status of happiness in one of the research-oriented enterprises. in the c...

Social Indicators Research covers many topics, which each have their own history. Happiness research is one of these included topics. Longstanding interest in happiness revived since the 1960s together with the emergence of the social indicator movement. Happiness became a prominent issue in the movement and the movement has fostered the development of happiness research in several ways.

this research is aimed at measuring the happiness of the women who conduct a family in tehran and identifying the causes and background of such happiness and also the causes of ostracism and the ways it affects their happiness. this is an explorative survey. for this purpose,  30 women were selected through snowball sampling and the data was collected through interview and then a survey was con...