This article presents the results of a study that combines consideration widely known concepts (happiness, subjective well-being) with phenomena self-compassion and vitality (as dispositions) are relatively new for Russian psychological thought. A close connection these parameters is postulated. The analysis in different age groups (adolescence (71 people); youth (48 adulthood (37 people), old ...

Psychosocial well-being and happiness are better in green neighbourhoods due to access nature spaces. Hence, this study focusses on investigating how psychosocial determinants (PWDs) affect occupants’ a residential community. This article identifies the psychosocial-well-being domain, ascertains PWDs neighbourhood, analyses effects of these occupants’-happiness. The research method includes qua...

In recent years many scholars are studying “happiness” seriously. Economics, long known as the dismal science, has a well established “utility theory” but utility should not be treated synonymously as happiness. This paper questions some premises of the Benthamite theory that presumes utility is the same as happiness and proposes a theory that there are three kinds of happiness: a forward looki...

Culture shapes the emotions people feel and want to feel. In Western cultures, happiness is an emotion that many people want to feel. Although experiencing happiness is associated with increased well-being and psychological health, recent evidence suggests wanting to feel happy to an extreme degree, or, highly valuing happiness, leads to decreased well-being. To examine whether these effects of...

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972–2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been eroded, and the gender happiness ga...

Background: Happiness is accounted for one of the psychological health criteria, and is considered as one of the six fundamental emotions- in human beings. Labor pain is also considered as one of the exclusive experiences, which demands pregnant women’s ability to cope with it. Happiness may give this potential ability to the pregnant women to apply skillful coping methods to tolerate the labor...