Happiness research in economics takes reported subjective well-being as a proxy measure for utility and has already provided many interesting insights about human well-being and its determinants. We argue that future research on happiness in economics has a lot of potential, but that it needs to be guided more by theory. We propose two ways to test theories of happiness, and illustrate them wit...

Happiness is generally considered to be an ultimate goal in life; virtually everybody wants to be happy. The United States Declaration of Independence of 1776 takes it as a self-evident truth that the “pursuit of happiness” is an “unalienable right”, comparable to life and liberty. It follows that economics is – or should be – about individual happiness. In particular, the question is how do ec...

the aim of the current study was examine the effectiveness of  cognitive behavioral therapy on affective maturity and happiness in psychology student of azad university of bojnoutd.40 person were selecting by employing simple random sampling . they completed effective maturity scale (ems) for assessment of effective maturity and oxford happiness questionnaire for the assessment of happiness. an...

avicenna has presented some divisions of happiness: at the first he defines it as favorite thing per se (intrinsically), and goal in itself. he divides also happiness in one respect into two kinds; the first one is happiness in relation to different powers of soul, and the other is happiness in relation to soul itself. from the other viewpoint he divides happiness into bodily and spiritual and ...

Editorials 514 Bhutan was the first country in the world to pursue happiness as a state policy. The Bhutanese concept of happiness is deeper than the common meaning of happiness in industrialized countries. The philosophy of gross national happiness has several dimensions: it is holistic, recognizing people's spiritual, material, physical or social needs; it emphasizes balanced progress; it vie...

New studies are revealing predictors of subjective well-being, often assessed as self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. Worldwide, most people report being at least moderately happy, regardless of age and gender. As part of their scientific pursuit of happiness, researchers have examined possible associations between happiness and (a) economic growth and personal income, (b) close relat...