Happiness is one of the most important life’s components. Our life’s quality relies on how much we are happy. Are all people equally happy? Obviously not. That was proved by Ruut Veenhoven’s current research how much people enjoy their life-as-a-whole.
Ruut Veenhoven studied sociology. Also is teaching work in social psychology raised his interest in individual differences in happiness and in the possibilities of increasing individual happiness through training and advises. His World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
An average happiness calculation was made in 95 nations 1995-2005. How much people enjoy their life-as-a-whole was evaluate on scale 0 to 10. In the top of all 95 nations is Denmark! It was evaluated even 8.2 points. Others the happiest nations are Switzerland, Austria, Iceland and Finland. I think that these results were influenced by good political and economical situation in these countries. However, this list shows us, which nations are the unhappiest. In the bottom of the list we can find Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova, Zimbabwe and the rearmost is Tanzania. It was evaluated on 3.2 points. And what evaluation gets Lithuania? Only 4.6 and it is 85 of 95 nations. Sad to see these results, but this is fact. I think, that apart economical and political situations people’s happiness is affected by climate, temperament, nature and other different facts.
To sum up, nobody else can make us happy than we. People should take pleasure in simple, small things and luck will come by itself. So, don’t worry, be happy ;)
References: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_nat/nat_fp.php
http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/Pub2000s/2007c-full.pdf
Pictures: http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/people.htm
http://fc54.deviantart.com/fs35/f/2008/239/f/8/Taste_of_happiness_by_uploathe.jpg
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/files/u15/Happiness_2.jpg
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