This article presents a state of the art about the Psychology of happiness and well-being, addressing a first topic related to the beginnings of this psychological paradigm and its development today. It is important to mention that the approach is recent and considers psychology in a very different way from the traditional one, for this reason the main authors of the same are presented such as Seligman, Lyubomirsky and, in Peru, Yamamoto; in addition to different theoretical perspectives of this approach. Rosales (2018, p. 1) indicates that, at present, elements such as well-being and happiness in life are two concepts of vital importance not related to pathological elements, but, on the contrary, are related to subjective aspects of daily living. Based on this notion, the author indicates, various questions have arisen related to how to know if a person… (a) it feels good; (b) possess...