Thursday, October 30, 2014

Measuring Happiness

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Was developed by psychologists in Oxford as a way to measure your individual happiness. The questionnaire gives you a bunch of statements and asks you to evaluate your life and give them a number based on if you agree, strongly agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with each statement. You then average out your scores and based on your number it will tell you how happy you are. The scale is from 1 to 6, and the average person scores a 4.
The questions have you evaluate your social behavior; “I have very warm feeling for almost everyone,” your humor; “I laugh a lot,” your self-esteem; “I don’t feel particularly pleased with the way I am,” your overall outlook and purpose in life; “I feel that life is very rewarding,” and many more.

To measure your own happiness you can go to the website and follow the instructions here:

If you score between a 3 and a 5 it means that you are satisfied with life and pretty happy. A score between a 5 and a 6 means that you are very happy and it discusses all the benefits to being happy, like good health and achieving your goals, but if you score a 6 than you are actually “too happy” and will have lower levels of health and other benefits.  

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