Method + procedure

• Interviews and questionnaires

  • Considers peoples sense of own happiness (Subjective well being)
  • Interviews: Closed question “how satisfied are you with your life?”
  • Questionnaires: multi-item scale
• Observations

  • Beepers to remind participants to send message of what they are doing and thinking
  • Sample a persons behaviour
• Correlations

  • Consider factors that co-vary

  (Some may contribute to happiness or be a consequence of happiness)

  • Participants with high SWB positive life event apparisal of life events or see events in rose coloured way
• Reviews

  • Review of other studies
  • Meta-analysis (examining results off many other studies)