Happiness Flashcards
Happiness
Feeling of satisfaction and contentment with your life.
(tried to be defined over 25,000 years)
Flourishment
Developing in a successful and healthy way
Hedonism
School of thought that argues that happiness is about seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering
Aristippus
A student of Socrates who believed that pleasure is the highest form of good- only good that matters
Confucius
Believed that the most important kind of happiness comes from acting in a moral way rather than seeking pleasure and excitement “altruism and self-restraint”
Plato
A philosopher that believes that believes that those who are moral are those who are happy.
Aristotle
He believed that happiness comes from both pleasurable things as well as things as well as things that are achieved through development of good character and habits.(bodily goods, external goods and goods for the soul)
Contemporary psychology
Measures amount of happiness, and tries to figure out what predicts it and determines whether one’s degree of happiness can be modified.
Ed Diener
An American psychologist who discovered and initiated the study of happiness and satisfaction that is still used today -Satisfaction with standard of living (SWLS)
Martin Seligman
Came up with the theory of happiness and well-being called PERMA
Positive psychology
Looks at better ways to view life questions- answers the question “what gives life meaning?”
Pillars of well-being
P- positive psychology
E- engagement
R-relationship with others
M-meaning/purpose
A-achievements/accomplishments
PERMA
is a way of thinking about how to maximize your well-being in order to flourish.
Positive emotions
what we feel- is all about satisfaction and feeling good
Engagement
is about being in the state of flow while carrying out something you like
Relationships
Being connected with people around us
Meaning/purpose
Having a reason that makes you motivated to carry out activities
Achievement
A sense of accomplishment and success
What predicts satisfaction with life
demographic, psychological and social factors
Stress
excess pressure on somebody that leads to negative feelings and thoughts
Stress as load
Pressure to complete work in a given amount of time
Stress as worry
worry that is brought about by the thoughts of getting work done
Lymbominsky
American psychologist that discovered that 50% of life’s happiness is genetic, 40% is modifiable, and 10% is circumstantial
The Big brain
considered to solve social problems rather than physical ones
Group selection
Working in larger groups to ensure that activities are carried out efficiently, which maximizes well-being
social awareness
understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses and what they need to work on
HHIS
house hold income satisfaction
SWLS
Satisfaction with standards of living
responsible decision making
making ethical and constructive choice about social and personal behaviour
