Happiness – the universal purpose. Everyone morally and psychologically ripened person aspires to him. Happiness can be the minute gushed feeling or strong feeling of the world and itself.
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1. Psychologists define happiness as feeling of own completeness, joy and harmony of relationship with the world around. Happiness can have the different forms: strong nervous excitement at those who love the noisy companies and loud parties, silent tranquility at those who like to remain alone with themselves and to read the book.
2. The phenomenon of happiness has one very big paradox: the more the person aspires to him, the it is more difficult to become schastlivy. Besides, as practice shows, people of advanced age I feel to myself happy more often, than youth. The same is relative also material prosperity. Wealthier person can not feel that unification with the nature and the world around as it will be felt by the poor.
3. Also the fact that happiness is the state applicable to one specific person is interesting. It is impossible to say that the whole group of people or the whole country is happy.
4. Today there are two main and most popular ideas of happiness. The first look is presented by Abraham Maslow with his pyramid of requirements, to the second – Victor Frankl.
5. Abraham Maslow saw happiness of the person in his self-updating, the movement to goals through satisfaction of the usual needs for food, a dream and safety. Thus, the happy person is represented as talented, balanced, wise and successful.
6. Victor Frankl considered that happiness is a way, search of sense. And that who aspires fortunately as to the purpose and final pleasure, never to comprehend it. Because the person so concentrates on a final point that loses the true meaning of the movement on life, so – loses also happiness.
7. Important for psychology there is also a question of measurement of happiness. For this purpose use a concept of "subjective wellbeing". "The subjective wellbeing" depends on satisfaction with different aspects of human life: social, personal, sexual, family, labor, etc.
8. Feelings of happiness are influenced also by personal lines of the person: hobby, optimism, entertainments, self-assessment, ekstraversiya. However the last researches show that happier people who have many interpersonal contacts – friendly, working, family, public feel. Happy people spend less time alone, they are in love, they have a strong marriage and loyal friends.
9. A variety of approaches to interpretation of a phenomenon of happiness and a huge number of scientific research on this subject once again prove as far as it is many-sided and how many unknown aspects still conceal.