| Описание: | Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Positive psychology researchers use theoretical models that include describing happiness as consisting of positive emotions and positive activities, or that describe three kinds of happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Happiness in this older sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia, and is still used in virtue ethics. Research has identified a number of attributes that correlate with happiness: relationships and social interaction, extraversion, marital status, employment, health, democratic freedom, optimism, religious involvement, income and proximity to other happy people. While direct measurement of happiness presents challenges, tools such as The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire have been developed by researchers. Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. |