Sources of happiness : What makes people happy?

• Autor: Alarcón, Reynaldo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2002
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3710
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/3710
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: happiness; objects of happiness; gender; married state; age; felicidad; objetos de felicidad; género; estado conyugal; edad

The present research had the following goals: (a) to identify the favorite objects to reach the happiness; and (b ), to determine if the favorite objects are associated with the gender, the married condition and the age of the participant. The sample was integrated by 163 middle classpeople: 81 men and 82 women, all from Lima City. They were requested to choose, from a listof 15 items, the three objects that they consider the most important for happiness. The favorite objects were: "to have good health"; "to have a good relationship with God" and "to have agood family". There were not significant differences in the object choosing according to gender,although there were differences according to age and married condition. The analysis of multiple regression informed that the more important considered objects explain 66% of the varianceof the variable happiness. The results are discussed and compared with similar works.