Essay On The Importance Of Happiness In School

The essential standard for one’s living is being happy which is found in different forms and differs among individuals. It can be associated with purchase of inanimate objects or with someone else that one is associated with. On the whole, consistent feelings of happiness may be determined by individual factors as well as environmental factors. The importance of happiness is apparent in numerous life domains. In a meta-analysis of the literature with adults, Lyubormirsky, King, and Diener (2005) found that happier individuals lived longer, earned more money and were more productive at work, and reported more satisfying interpersonal relationships. Research with adolescents has revealed the importance of happiness in school as well as in the

Argyle, Martin and Crossland (1989) defined happiness as having three partly independent components: (1) the average level of satisfaction over a specific time period; (2) the frequency and degree of positive affect; and (3) the relative absence of negative affect. “Happiness” denotes a measure of an individual 's evaluation of one 's overall quality of life (Veenhoven, 1997). The term is usually used interchangeably with “life satisfaction”. People reporting to be happy tend to smile more and show lower levels of stress responses (heart rate, blood pressure), and they are less likely to commit suicide (Diener, Suh, Lucas & Smith, 1999). Research on happiness has identified a number of personal, demographic and socio-economic covariates of happiness that explain observed happiness patterns. Important personal and demographic characteristics which affect happiness are health, age, sex, marital status, the size and structure of the household, the education level, and the degree of urbanization (Clark, Frijters & Shields, 2008; Frey & Stutzer, 2002; Welsch, 2007). The present study made an attempt to identify the relationship of optimism, parental expectation and peer attachment with happiness of female college