The Pursuit of Happiness by Darrin M. McMahon

Additionally, this paper argues that policy-making and interdisciplinary approaches can make important contributions to happiness studies. Darrin McMahon follows this great search through to the present day, showing how. Central to the development of Christianity, ideas of happiness assumed their modern form during the Enlightenment. We then discuss future directions for happiness research, proposing several methodological and theoretical areas for progress in: (a) cross-temporal analyses to examine historical changes and (b) multilevel analyses to identify the units of culture that affect happiness. The Pursuit of Happiness offers a brilliant summation of the history of happiness, and its evolution from divine gift to natural human entitlement. The present article: (a) overviews measures of individual and collective happiness and the validity of these measurements (b) explicates the role of culture in understanding the long-term happiness and life satisfaction of individuals and (c) explores the possibility and importance of studying the happiness of collectives (e.g., work groups, organizations, cities, nations). Happiness is a function of the will, not of external forces. But recently, psychological researchers have also begun to examine the effects that group-level functions (e.g., nation-level economic status) have on happiness. Measuring the Immeasurable: Psychometric Modeling of Subjective Well-Being Data, Michael Eid III. And it is in this time that the French revolutionary leader St. The Assessment of Subjective Well-Being: Successes and Shortfalls, William Pavot 8. It is in this time that Thomas Jefferson declares the pursuit of happiness to be a self-evident truth, while his colleague George Mason, in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, speaks of pursuing and obtaining happiness as a natural endowment and right.

The Structure of Subjective Well-Being, Ulrich Schimmack 7. As such, research on well-being has focused on the long-term happiness and life satisfaction of individuals. The Pursuit of Happiness in History, Darrin M. Happiness and well-being are often defined as internal feelings or states of satisfaction.

The Pursuit of Happiness by Darrin M. McMahon