Measuring Happiness Essay

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MEASURING HAPPINESS I. Background of the Study
What is the essence of happiness? People strive in their lives to achieve happiness but it is hard to say that in general humans have achieved that goal. Happiness may not be so easily measured, but the biology behind it has been proven. Beneath the smiles and laughter, there is a flurry of activities in our bodies that is responsible for putting us in such high spirits. It is an emotional state that indicates our satisfaction with life; a measure of how favorable we perceive the overall quality of our life to be. Throughout human history, philosophers have considered happiness as the most fundamental motivation for all human action. It is assumed to be our ultimate goal in life – everything we do merely a means to achieve it.
This study focus about the feeling of happiness across countries and its relationship on the factors that affects the feeling of happiness which are the importance of family, the importance of religion, their state of health, and the gross domestic product (GDP) derived from purchasing power parity (PPP). These factors are the independent variables on this study. Happiness is a feeling. It's a feeling when you have a purpose and meaning in life. It's all about doing something worthy, something that gives you joy. It is an ongoing and progressive state of mind always willing to change, influenced by beliefs and preconceptions and subjected to be shaped by new knowledge. Happiness is the inner feeling of having gathered the satisfaction of different needs at different levels. Human curiosity in search for new knowledge unbalances the current state of happiness making people abandon this state in search of higher goals.
Family is very important part of our everyday life. It helps us in improving our personality. It also helps us in shaping our life. It teaches us the value of love,

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