Happiness Inducing Behaviors in Everyday Life: An Empirical Assessment of “The How of Happiness”

Warner, Rebecca M.; Vroman, Kerryellen

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“…Although Rijavec, Jurčec and Mijočević (2010) have not found gender differences in happiness among Croatian students, our results support those obtained by other authors, which confirm gender differences in happiness in favour of females (Eddington and Shuman, 2006, Myers and Diener, 1995, Warner and Vroman, 2011.…”

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“…On the other hand, extraverts socialize more often and have more friends (Brajša-Žganec, Ivanović and Burušić, 2014), they are included in rewarding social activities and have greater social support. Findings of the studies on the relationship between personality and strategies are consistent with the theoretical expectations based on researches of Warner and Vroman (2011) and Tkach and Lyubomrisky (2006), where extraversion and agreeableness are associated with the strategies/activities directed to nurturing social relationships. It was expected that an open and pleasant person would choose a variety of social activities.…”

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“…Sport and hobby is the only strategy used more frequently by men. Warner and Vroman (2011) show that men use the avoidance of worries as a happiness-increasing strategy more often than women, while women are more prone to raising the level of satisfaction through optimism, gratitude, nurturing relationships and healthy nutrition. Carr and Steel (2010) argued that the selection of strategies is strongly influenced by socio-cultural stereotypes, but women are more likely than men to behave in accordance with the social expectations (Shaughnessy, Treadway, Breland, Williams, & Brouer, 2011), so their strategy selection is more consistent with the stereotypical expectations.…”

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“…Although some authors (Warner andVroman, 2011, Tkach andLyubomirsky, 2006) have not found the association between happiness and religion and spiritual activities, this relationship is complex. Lewis and Cruise (2006) observed that studies of the connection between religion and happiness provide contradictory results, which may be a consequence of methodological difficulties and unclear terminology.…”

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The present study investigates some of the key elements of long-term happiness model. The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship between happiness-increasing strategies, personality traits and happiness level on the sample of Croatian students. A sample of 573 undergraduate students aged between 18 to 22 years, completed the List of HappinessIncreasing Strategies, Subjective Happiness Scale and the Croatian version of International Personality Item Pool -IPIP50. The results showed that females are generally happier than males. Comparing the frequency of use of happiness-increasing strategies between genders, females reported more often use of almost all happiness-increasing strategies (Social Affiliation, CognitiveBehavioural Interventions, Partying and Clubbing, Instrumental Goal Pursuit, Passive Leisure, Active Leisure and Religion), whereas males reported more often use of Sport and Hobby. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that gender, personality traits and strategies explain for 51.4% of the happiness variance. Gender explained about 3% of happiness variance, personality traits in the second step of variables explained for 41.1% of the happiness variance, and happinessincreasing strategies in the third step explained an additional 8% of the happiness variance. When we reversed the set of variables entered in the model, happiness-increasing strategies in the second step explained for 25% of the happiness variance and personality traits in the third step explained an additional 26% of the happiness variance. Regardless of what set of variables was entered in the second or third step, results showed the same significant variables in the final regression analysis: Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Party and Clubbing and Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions. The findings showed the importance of personal traits as well as happiness-increasing strategies in predicting happiness among Croatian students.

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“…Por otra parte, conductas relacionadas con el ocio pasivo -ver televisión, dormir, etc.-y el consumo de alcohol y drogas correlacionan negativamente con la felicidad (Takch & Lyubomirsky, 2006). A pesar que existen reportes y algunos instrumentos para evaluar la relación entre conducta y felicidad en países anglosajones (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & & Lyubomirsky, 2006;Warner & Vroman, 2011), se desconoce si estas prácticas conductuales son generalizables a distintas culturas y, si lo fueran, si alcanzan un nivel de efectividad semejante a la de la cultura de origen. Como sabemos, la felicidad depende en una alta proporción de aspectos que las personas son capaces de modificar en su vida cotidiana (Lyubomirsky et al, 2005) y en el presente estudio se busca identificar qué conductas despliegan los jóvenes universitarios para procurarse felicidad.…”

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Comportamiento juvenil universitario en busca de la felicidad: su caracterización y su eficacia.

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r e s u M e n Se busca determinar qué comportamientos realizan los jóvenes para procurarse estados de felicidad y su eficacia en ello. Participan 433 estudiantes universitarios respondiendo un cuestionario (CCPF), para medir la frecuencia y eficacia de las conductas emitidas para procurarse felicidad, y la Escala de Felicidad Subjetiva de Lyubomirsky y Lepper, controlándose las variables sexo, religión y personalidad autoadscrita. Se observan niveles moderados de felicidad, sin registrarse diferencias según sexo, religión o personalidad autoadscrita. Los jóvenes desarrollan frecuentemente conductas para aumentar la felicidad -las mujeres más que los hombres-que resultan moderadamente eficaces. Las mujeres realizan más actividades de afiliación, religiosas y de ocio pasivo, y los hombres, más físicas y de metas instrumentales. La frecuencia y la eficacia de las conductas realizadas para aumentar la felicidad predicen de forma significativa y positiva las puntuaciones de felicidad. Los puntajes más altos de felicidad corresponden a quienes se autoclasifican como extrovertidos.Palabras clave conductas pro felicidad; jóvenes; estrategias conductuales a b s T r a c T It seeks to determine what behaviors are performed to get happiness and his efficiency. We evaluated 433 college students who completed a questionnaire (CCPF) constructed to measure the frequency and efficiency of conduct issued to increase happiness, and Subjective Happiness Scale of Lyubomirsky and Lepper, controlling the variables sex, religion and self-ascribed personality. In general, there is moderate levels of happiness without registering differences in this according to sex, religion or self-ascribed personality. The students frequently perform behaviors to increase happiness -women more than men -and are reported as moderately effective. Women perform more activities of affiliation, religious and passive leisure, and men more physical activities and related to instrumental goals. The frequency and effectiveness of actions carried out to increase the happiness predict significant and positively happiness scores. Higher happiness scores correspond to those who classify themselves as extroverts.

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Beyond Life Satisfaction: A Scientific Approach to Well‐Being Gives Us Much More to Measure

Duarte

2014

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions

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Happiness Inducing Behaviors in Everyday Life: An Empirical Assessment of “The How of Happiness”

Abstract: Behavior, Big five, Happiness, Factor analysis, Mediation,

Cited by 42 publications

References 20 publications

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