Received 07.09.2021
Revised 11.11.2021
Accepted 20.12.2021
Retrieved from Vol. 12, No. 1, 2022
Pages 60 -84
Abstract
The article is devoted to the theoretical analysis results presentation of economic and psychological principles of the happiness understanding as an interdisciplinary phenomenon. Theoretical generalizations of the happiness economy basic provisions and the state of human happiness basic characteristics in the framework of economic research are presented. It is concluded that the «happiness economy» development current areas are the study of factors influencing life satisfaction (age, gender, external attractiveness, level of education, marital status, number of children); study of the relationship between a person's level of happiness and social characteristics of his life (level of trust, number and quality of social contacts, involvement in various social groups), analysis of the public policy measures impact on public subjective well-being, etc. The specifics of the happiness and its achievement determinants interpretation within the framework of psychological research are revealed. Psychological understanding of the happiness phenomenon involves giving more weight to the subjective characteristics of his experience, which are realized in the affective and cognitive evaluative judgments of a person about quality of life, experiencing a sense of coherence and orderliness, clarity of life goals and activities. The happiness phenomenon research methodical means in the economic and psychological perspective are analyzed and the specifics of the use of socioeconomic indicators for measuring happiness at the national and global levels of human functioning are described
Keywords:
happiness, «happiness economy», indicators of happiness, determinants of happiness, economic and psychological principles of happiness phenomenon understanding, psychological well-being of the individual, economic and psychological factors of well-being, indicators of human happiness diagnostic means[1] Argyle, M. (2003). The psychology of happiness (2nd ed.). St. Petersburg: Piter.
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