RCRA 2023 - Evaluating Happiness Courses and Modes of Delivery 2023

Hammersley CH

Published on: 2023-11-18

Abstract

Philosophers, theologians, and more recently, psychologists, have attempted to define happiness. A Google search using the term “happiness” lists 975,000,000 results. Happiness is a universal pursuit, with people from all over the world rating happiness more important than wealth and material goods [1]. In March of 2019, the 7th World Happiness Report was published. This report surveys the state of global happiness by ranking 156 countries based on how happy their citizens perceive their citizens to be [2]. According to HH, the 14th Dalai Lama, "the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness” [3]. He suggests that happiness can be achieved by ‘training the mind’ through methods that identify factors that lead to happiness and those factors that lead to suffering [3]. In 1997, Martin Seligman founded the relatively new field of positive psychology.