Happiness-to-consumption Ratio
This article ‘the happiness-to-consumption ratio: an alternative approach in the quest for happiness’ discusses happiness as subjective well-being. It argues that money cannot be used to buy happiness. Caldas explains that most people use their reproductive years trying to make money and accumulate possessions. The article further argues that happiness is associated with both the subjective well-being feeling and self-assessment of a personal situation. Even though they put many efforts in an attempt to be happy, they never acquire the happiness. Wealth can improve the quality of life, but it can never be proportional to happiness. This article will help in developing my essay that will evaluate the impact of good relationships among the people. The essay will argue that a good relationship is a major factor among the people, and it has a significant effect on happiness. This article will be valuable in examining the happiness among the wealthy and unhealthy people. Caldas argument will be used to support the findings of my essay. The essay will raise the question ‘does the money buy happiness?’ The essay will draw the article’s view of much wealth without good relationship to explain the impact of relationships towards happiness
David, S., Boniwell, I. and Ayers, A. 2013. The Oxford handbook of happiness. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
In ‘The Oxford Handbook of Happiness’ David and his colleagues discusses the idea that relationship has a significant impact on human happiness. David, Boniwell and Ayers argues for the quality of a relationship in predicting the happiness of an individual. The authors of this book argue that the quality of a social relationship is much better than the quantity as it was found out across all cultural and the age groups. Regarding this book, this essay will argue that impact of close relationship to happiness tend to change across the lifespan. This argument will be used to support the findings elucidated in the essay. The essay will raise the question of the effect of different types of relationships on the happiness and it will draw the David and colleagues’ view of various kinds of relationships.
Holder, M. and Coleman, B. 2007. The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10(3), pp.329-349.
In this article, ‘The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness’ Holder and Coleman discusses the idea that relationship is a factor that has a significant impact on the happiness. The authors argues that the relationship in between the parents affects the well-being of their offspring. The article argues that happiness of young adults is affected by the closeness of their parents. This journal article will help in examining the effect of parent’s relationship to the happiness of their children. The essay will argue that much happiness is among the adolescent children who have intact families. Additionally it will argue that the best time to determine the effect of parent’s relationship is when children are at the age of 9-12. This age is the best for the study in this case because children will have developed the understanding of emotions including happiness. The children at this age can be able to identify complex social relationships and they will as well be able to attribute it to a certain cause. The essay will raise the question of how father of adolescent children view happiness in marriage and it will draw this article’s view on happiness of married men.
Taniguchi, H. 2014. Interpersonal Mattering in Friendship as a Predictor of Happiness in Japan: The Case of Tokyoites. Journal of Happiness Studies.
Taniguchi’s article ‘interpersonal mattering in a friendship of happiness in Japan’ discusses the idea that happiness is a subjective wellbeing with the relationship having the greatest impact on happiness. Taniguchi argues that interpersonal relationship is a significant and influential factor of happiness. More so for the people living in Tokyo, they perceive the positive relationship with others as a mediator of the relationship between the happiness and friendship. The study also argues that self-acceptance can partially impact the friendship-happiness relation. This article will help in examining the factors that make human beings happy. This essay will argue that the positive relationship with others can be a factor while predicting happiness. The essay will consider the Japanese society to explain how it will be possible to understand the association between relationship and happiness. Taniguchi’s argument will be used to support the findings elucidated in this essay. The essay will raise the question of who is a friend, and it will draw the Taniguchi’s definition of friendship as an intimate, voluntary and interpersonal private relationship.
References
Caldas, S. (2010). The happiness-to-consumption ratio:an alternative approach in the quest for happiness. Estudios Gerenciales, 26(116), pp.15-35.
David, S., Boniwell, I. and Ayers, A. 2013. The Oxford handbook of happiness. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Holder, M. and Coleman, B. 2007. The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10(3), pp.329-349.
Taniguchi, H. 2014. Interpersonal Mattering in Friendship as a Predictor of Happiness in Japan: The Case of Tokyoites. Journal of Happiness Studies.
