"An Introduction to Happiness and Determinants of Happiness."

                                             By:- Aditya Rothe.

We experience different types of emotion's we prefer to experience some of them like happiness,love , respect etc. And other like sadness,anger, hatred, fear, etc. These positive and negative types of emotions make our experiences meaningful and bring variety in the experiences. Without positive emotions our life will become very difficult. So, here we discus about Happiness and its determinants.

Definition of Happiness

"Happiness is a positive emotional state that is subjective for each person. The definition makes it clear that there are subjective difference in experience of happiness. For example some people are very happy when they get sweets and there are some who just hate sweets!"

Determinants of

 Happiness:-

1. Strong and intimate social relationship

Robust and intimate relationship within as well as outside the family help an individual to build better support system to rely on at the time of difficulties. It also produces greater positive contacts adding to overall happiness.

2. Optimism

When a person is more hopeful about the future, he/she will experience more positive emotion thereby reducing negative emotions like stress and anxiety. 

3. Self esteem

Having a positive evaluation of one's own self is positive self esteem. This enhances the confidence level of the individual and their ability to approach challenges more constructively. This results in greater incidence of being successful, thus adding to his happiness level.

4. Achieving challenging goals

When a person adjust the goal according to his capacities it becomes a challenging goal. Achieving such challenging goals leads to happiness.

5. Perceiving meaning in life

Some negative emotions like frustration, depression, loneliness etc. This types of thing does not experience meaning in life. So, it is the responsibility of each person to create a unique meaning and a purpose in his own life to ensure happiness.

6. Perspective of looking at the world as an opportunity rather than a threat

Each individual can look at the challenging of life either as an opportunity to develop his potentials or as setbacks creating damage in his life. As we've seen earlier achieving challenging goals to lead to happiness. That means our perspective of looking at the world matters for our level of happiness.