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...

Although the last decade has witnessed mounting research on the development and evaluation of positive interventions, investigators still know little about the target population of such interventions: happiness seekers. The present research asked three questions about happiness seekers: (1) What are their general characteristics?, (2) What do they purposefully do to become happier?, and (3) How...

abstract joy, happiness and pleasure are natural inclinations and traits in all human beings. on the other hand, the modern man is beleaguered with mental and psychological stress and tensions which deprive them of those happy and joyous states. the present study aims to compare happiness as viewed by islam and modern psychology. this is a library research study which primarily attempts to expl...

Global and school-related happiness were measured in 339 Finnish ninth graders, about 86% of whom had participated in a study on the happiness of sixth graders three years earlier. Students filled out two questionnaires, the Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) and the School Children’s Happiness Inventory (Ivens, 2007). In addition, they chose items that they perceived would...

Massive actuator arrays found their applications in robotics, pharmaceutics, aerospace, etc. Compared with electrically and/or pneumatically powered actuator array, hydraulic actuator has the comprehensive advantages of higher force density (i.e. force / actuation area), better controllability, and simpler remote control accessibility. This paper presents approaches to construct and control a m...

Research on happiness has been conducted for many decades with various interesting results reported by different groups of researchers. While there is a plethora of research efforts on happiness in general, there is little work being done to study the effects of online social networks on happiness. This is mainly due to the relative (in)maturity of online social networking as it has only been a...