What Is The Resilience Of Happiness?

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As stated by Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007), happiness is the experience of being happy, satisfied, positive well-being, combined in the feeling of one life is good, having importance and value Cohn et al (2012), predicted the good life outcome or results in many areas. The theory of broaden-and-build theory stated that experiencing happiness improve people’s life. With the sample size of students (N=86), assessed happiness and resilience at the start until the end of the month. Positive emotions implies as the increase of the resilience and happiness, whereas negative emotions had a delicate effect. Change in resilience intercede the interaction between positive emotions and improving life satisfaction suggested those happy persons become more contented in life not simply because they feel excel, but because they providing something such as money that someone can use when needed for living well. The study of Katherine Lower (2014) determined the relationship between some contents related to positive psychology, including happiness and resilience. With the total samples of 299 undergraduate college students’ age, gender, socio-economic status, social support, spirituality, happiness, resilience and optimism through an online …show more content…

The study aimed to identify college students’ perception on happiness based on stress, prevalence of stress management techniques, and social support. It resulted that the college students were least happy in terms of their financial status, work and school. The happiness perceived differently significant in the basis of stress levels and social support. The college students who were low on perceived happiness reported as higher stress levels and low social support. Majority of the respondents (61%) reported had high level of stress, most stressed regarding on school, not enough time, and with their future

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