Levels Of Life Satisfaction / Well Being Are Measured Under Different Manipulative Conditions

A group of 300 people were surveyed. Their marital status was recorded along with answers to several questions. One question asked was whether “Friends and social life” or “Job or primary activity” contributes most to their general well-being. The results from this question appear in the table below.

Relationships are the things that make human beings, which brings sense to life if these relationships make you feel happy or takes the desire to live away if these relationships are like a stone at your neck. From relationships, the whole fate of the person is determined. If he or she has pleasant relationships at work, in his or her family, in private life, such a person is considered to be happy. If relationships are not the things that bring some joy into life, the person stops being satisfied and pleased with life. Today I will be analyzing my sister’s relationship. When she first met her boyfriend, she was very shy and was scared of him because he was popular and she was just a quiet

Many individuals go through life looking to achieve a state of well-being called happiness. This state of well-being exceeds just an optimistic mood, it encompasses living a great life with deep satisfaction and meaning. In order to achieve happiness the main ingredient is a healthy relationship. A relationship is the state of two people being connected. Out of the many emotions that humans develop, love is the most profound. People seek love in relationships which leads to a cake full of happiness. When relationships fail so does happiness, whereas where relationships grow so does the positive happiness. Humans can be quite selfish, for they rely on others to feel happy. There is much evidence to suggest that relationships create happiness. Some of the evidence includes social connections, the quality of the close relationships, and lastly, good relationships protect the brain.

In response for “The Hunt for Happiness” article could potentially affect my life by the view of Charissa Newark’s perspective.

According to our textbook, healthy relationships allow us to gain an overall better quality of life. They lead to many beneficial attributes, such as, a longer lifespan, a more determined mindset, an active lifestyle, a stronger support system, and an educated mentality. Whereas, individuals who display a poor emotional tone in relationships experience the opposite. For instance, they get a poor quality of sleep, they have little to no motivation to carry out tasks, and overall they lead a much more negative lifestyle than those who portray a healthier tone in relationships.

What is happiness? I would’ve never known how to reply to that, but I do now, thanks to The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.

In the Winterbourne View Hospital there was an absence of wellbeing based on what Diener (2000) calls subjective wellbeing. This is where a person experiences a high (subjective wellbeing) satisfaction such as feelings of joy and low (subjective wellbeing) if the individual is dissatisfied with life and feels sadness (Diener, 2000). Diener’s view of wellbeing is socially constructed which involves making sense of things based on comparisions with societal values. Optimistic cultures such as the United Kingdom tend to emphasies the positive aspects of life while pessimistic cultures such as France have been noted to look at the shortcomings of life (Diener, 2000; Myers et al. 2014). Social comparisons clearly are at play here in deciding who

When one is single, they are free to hang out and do whatever they want without the burdens of spending all of their time with their significant other. When I was dating someone, I felt that I could not hang out with my friends or have time for myself. It was as if I was glued to my partner. During this time, I was blinded by my partner and unable to branch out and enjoy the company of those who cared about me. It was not because I didn't want to; it was because I wasted all of my time on him. It was as if my life was deteriorating, losing everything around me. Based on data collected from the General Social Society Survey and the National Survey of Families and Households, people in relationships struggle with achieving a healthy, balanced lifestyle. On the contrary, it has been found that people who are not in a relationship are more involved in their community and engaged with their neighbors. Based on research, Lisa Berkman determined that people who are single are less likely to have health problems, because they are more social, unlike people in a relationship. Not only have people been affected physically but more are affected mentally. Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian discovered that in the last generation, isolation is increasing among couples because they believe that their partnership is the only relationship and social contact that matters (Nanos, 2012). Being single can lead to opportunities to meet new

Health Psychology journal’s year of publication, seems to be up to date and sensitive to what constitutes rumination and satisfaction with one’s life when setting goals on finding a partner for single females. However, the authors do not go into detail what ethnicity of females were studied, and this could very well be a factor in how one thinks about them self when single. Although this journal was very well constructed it seemed to miss important mechanisms through which goal commitment may have impact on well-being.

Rethinking What Counts. Perspectives on Wellbeing and Genuine Progress Indicator Metrics from a Canadian Viewpoint

Life goals for most aside from many other goals often include a career, a relationship that ultimately leads to an everlasting- marriage and also children in many cases. Two people meet fall in love and start building a life together. The beginning stages of a relationship is considered the honey moon stage because these stages are the first moments of building a relationship together where the impressions will usually last forever. There are great benefits to being in a relationship. Although a person can maintain an absolutely prosperous and glorious life without a relationship many long to find a soul mate. Most Individuals seek to find one who is compatible with oneself where the ultimate goal is to build

The researcher hypothesized that participants who scored higher on the Cooley Happiness Survey (CHS) lived happier lives then those who had lower scores. The researcher first conducted the convenience sample over a duration of about two weeks then an analysis of the data was conducted. The data showed that 31 participants had opened the survey however, a total of 5 participant’s surveys were removed due to incomplete data (3 due to dropout, 2 due to miss question[s]). This was done to prevent the possibility of skewing the results thus making the results invalid. This left a total 26 respondents whose data was used in the analysis. The researcher then reverse coded a total of 7 questions (Questions 4, 7-10, 17, & 19).

After the married individual’s report, the second highest happiness report came from individuals who never-married. They reported that they were "very happy" than separated, divorced, and widowed persons. In concurrence with Bradburn (1969), Gove, Hughes, and Style (1983) found that married persons were happier than all classes of unmarried persons. The next happiness group was never-married persons who reported the next highest level of happiness, followed by widowed and divorced

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the measure for nations’ standard of living - its trends and fluctuations have proved valuable in decision making for over 80 years. Yet societal evolution and technology advancements bring pause to examine current day GDP calculations, and consider including contemporary elements when gauging national wellbeing trends. Understanding wealth distribution across societal classes, quality of life and contentment, and the environmental health of a nation, are all crucial components in formulating a more accurate picture of a nation’s standard of living, capability for sustainable growth, and plausible stability.

Satisfaction with life a very useful measure to understand whether or not one needs to change their ways of life in order to be more fulfilled. The purpose of the study is to extrapolate the correlation between satisfaction with life and extroversion, satisfaction with life and fear of negative evaluation, and satisfaction with life and mate-seeking. For satisfaction with life, I used the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and SPSS was employed to statically evaluate the results. The results indicate that satisfaction with life is positively correlated