Evaluate your happiness level with a validated questionnaire. Happiness, or subjective wellbeing, is a positive emotion that combines day to day positive emotions with overall life satisfaction. This test can help determine if you are unhappy, moderately unhappy, neutral, moderately happy, or very happy. The new field of Positive Psychology has discovered many effective techniques to becoming happier. First, focus on the basics such as sleep, exercise, family, and friends. Cognitive behavioral therapy, therapeutic journaling, living in the moment (mindfulness), and helping others have also been shown to be effective. Hills, P., & Argyle, M. (2002). The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being. Personality and individual differences, 33(7), 1073-1082.
