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Happiness Measures Introduces the discussion of happiness

Emotions, Stress, and Health Chapter 11. Happiness Measures Introduces the discussion of happiness. Experienced Emotion. Izard (1977) isolated 10 emotions. Most of them are present in infancy, except for contempt, shame, and guilt. Bob Daemmrich/ The Image Works.

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Happiness Measures Introduces the discussion of happiness

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  1. Emotions, Stress, and HealthChapter 11 Happiness MeasuresIntroduces the discussion of happiness

  2. Experienced Emotion Izard (1977) isolated 10 emotions. Most of them are present in infancy, except for contempt, shame, and guilt. Bob Daemmrich/ The Image Works Patrick Donehue/ Photo Researchers, Inc. Tom McCarthy/ Rainbow Lew Merrim/ Photo Researchers, Inc. Marc Grimberg/ The Image Bank Nancy Brown/ The Image Bank Michael Newman/ PhotoEdit

  3. Happiness People who are happy perceive the world as being safer. They are able to make decisions easily, are more cooperative, rate job applicants more favorably, and live healthier, energized, and more satisfied lives.

  4. Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon When we feel happy we are more willing to help others.

  5. Subjective Well-Being Subjective well-being is the self-perceived feeling of happiness or satisfaction with life. Research on new positive psychology is on the rise. http://web.fineliving.com

  6. Happiness Measures • Happiness Measures (HM), perhaps the most researched index of happiness in the field. Michael Fordyce provides an extensive review of its status.

  7. Happiness Measures Part I: Use the list to answer the question: In general, how happy or unhappy do you usually feel? Check the one statement that best describes your average happiness.

  8. Happiness Measures • Part II Consider your emotions a moment further. On average, what percent of the time do you feel happy? Unhappy? Neutral (neither happy nor unhappy? Write down your best estimates, as well as you can. Make sure the three figures add up to 100% The percent of the time I feel happy % The percent of the time I unhappy % The percent of the time I feel neutral % Total: 100%

  9. Happiness Measures • The scale score and the three percentage estimates are used as raw scores. • The combination score, used by researchers as the primary criterion for happiness, requires minimal calculation: combination score = (scale score x 10 + happy %) / 2. Scale score is your response to Part I X10

  10. Happiness Measures • Mean scores for more than 3000 community college students were as follows: Combination score = 61.66; • Scale score = 6.92; • Happy % Estimate = 54.13; • Unhappy % Estimate = 20.44; • Neutral % Estimate = 25.43

  11. Taking it a step further • List 10 people you know well, using only initials or nicknames. • Beside each name write an “H” if that person tends to be happy or an “N” if he or she is not happy. • Then have them go through the list a second time, this time writing “S” for selfish and “U” for unselfish. • Rimland defines selfishness as a stable tendency to devote one’s time and resources to one’s interest and welfare and an unwillingness to inconvenience oneself for others.

  12. Taking it a step further Happy Selfish uns Unselfish Unhappy

  13. Taking it a step further Reproduce the table on their own sheets and count the number of people among the 10 names that fall into each cell. Take samples of the number in each cell; tally the numbers on the chalkboard.

  14. Taking it a step further • Generally, the happy/selfish cell will have few cases; • virtually all the happy people will be in the “unselfish” cell. • Do you know anybody who is both selfish and happy. • Rimland points out, the findings may represent an interesting paradox: • Selfish people are those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. • As judged by others, however, these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those who are devoted to making others happy.

  15. Wealth and Well-being • In affluent societies, people with more money are happier than people who struggle for their basic needs. • People in rich countries are happier than people in poor countries. • A sudden rise in financial conditions makes people happy. However, people who live in poverty or in slums are also satisfied with their life.

  16. Does Money Buy Happiness? Wealth is like health: Its utter absence can breed misery, yet having it is no guarantee of happiness.

  17. Happiness & Satisfaction Subjective well-being (happiness + satisfaction) measured in 82 countries shows Puerto Rico and Mexico (poorer countries) at the top of the list.

  18. Values & Life Satisfaction Students who value love more than money report higher life satisfaction.

  19. Happiness & Prior Experience Adaptation-Level Phenomenon:Like the adaptation to brightness, volume, and touch, people adapt to income levels. “Satisfaction has a short half-life” (Ryan, 1999).

  20. Happiness & Others’ Attainments Happiness is not only relative to our past, but also to our comparisons with others. Relative Deprivationis the perception that we are relatively worse off than those we compare ourselves with.

  21. Predictors of Happiness Why are some people generally more happy than others?

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