Happiness

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Happiness

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Feeling of satisfaction and contentment with your life.
(tried to be defined over 25,000 years)

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Flourishment

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Developing in a successful and healthy way

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Hedonism

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School of thought that argues that happiness is about seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering

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Aristippus

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A student of Socrates who believed that pleasure is the highest form of good- only good that matters

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Confucius

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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”

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Plato

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A philosopher that believes that believes that those who are moral are those who are happy.

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Aristotle

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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)

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Contemporary psychology

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Measures amount of happiness, and tries to figure out what predicts it and determines whether one’s degree of happiness can be modified.

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Ed Diener

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An American psychologist who discovered and initiated the study of happiness and satisfaction that is still used today -Satisfaction with standard of living (SWLS)

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Martin Seligman

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Came up with the theory of happiness and well-being called PERMA

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Positive psychology

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Looks at better ways to view life questions- answers the question “what gives life meaning?”

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Pillars of well-being

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P- positive psychology
E- engagement
R-relationship with others
M-meaning/purpose
A-achievements/accomplishments

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PERMA

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is a way of thinking about how to maximize your well-being in order to flourish.

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Positive emotions

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what we feel- is all about satisfaction and feeling good

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Engagement

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is about being in the state of flow while carrying out something you like

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Relationships

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Being connected with people around us

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Meaning/purpose

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Having a reason that makes you motivated to carry out activities

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Achievement

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A sense of accomplishment and success

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What predicts satisfaction with life

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demographic, psychological and social factors

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Stress

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excess pressure on somebody that leads to negative feelings and thoughts

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Stress as load

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Pressure to complete work in a given amount of time

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Stress as worry

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worry that is brought about by the thoughts of getting work done

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Lymbominsky

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American psychologist that discovered that 50% of life’s happiness is genetic, 40% is modifiable, and 10% is circumstantial

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The Big brain

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considered to solve social problems rather than physical ones

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Group selection

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Working in larger groups to ensure that activities are carried out efficiently, which maximizes well-being

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social awareness

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understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses and what they need to work on

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HHIS

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house hold income satisfaction

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SWLS

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Satisfaction with standards of living

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responsible decision making

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making ethical and constructive choice about social and personal behaviour