Savoring, Life Satisfaction & Happiness
Does Amplifying Savoring and Life Satisfaction Lead to Happiness?
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In this paper, we focus on some of the ideas that a new field of psychology known as “positive psychology” is looking into, how amplifying savoring and life satisfaction can improve people’s overall happiness. Bryant and Veroff (2007) found that savoring is a process where people are aware of pleasure and appreciate the positive experience in their life, which increases happiness. We looked at ta total of 290 university students who completed questionnaires about their ways of savoring, life satisfaction and subjective happiness. Results show that amplifying savoring, life satisfaction and happiness were significantly and positively correlated. It was also seen that amplifying savoring mediated the relationship between life satisfaction and happiness. Basically, our findings suggest that happy people become satisfied with life not because they feel good but because they have developed strategies for living well (Cohn, Fredrickson, Brown, Mikels & Conway, 2009). Does Amplifying Savoring and Life Satisfaction Lead to Happiness? Research in the field of positive psychology have increasingly focused on studying things that make life worth living and looking at the good and positive things in life. Goal of positive psychology is to find ways of improving people’s lives and enhancing their well—being for future socio—emotional development (Dunn, Beard, & Fisher, 2011). Some of the ways people’s lives can be improved and enhanced is through contentment, hope, life satisfaction and happiness (Csizentmihalyi & Seligam, 2000). According to Bryant and Veroff (2007), savoring is a way of appreciating, enhancing, and attending to the positive experiences that people have and think of savoring as a blessing to positively fulfilling one’s life. With the positive psychology movement, many researchers have started looking at ways of maintaining and
Name: xxxxxx
Course: xxxx
Institution: xxx Abstract
In this paper, we focus on some of the ideas that a new field of psychology known as “positive psychology” is looking into, how amplifying savoring and life satisfaction can improve people’s overall happiness. Bryant and Veroff (2007) found that savoring is a process where people are aware of pleasure and appreciate the positive experience in their life, which increases happiness. We looked at ta total of 290 university students who completed questionnaires about their ways of savoring, life satisfaction and subjective happiness. Results show that amplifying savoring, life satisfaction and happiness were significantly and positively correlated. It was also seen that amplifying savoring mediated the relationship between life satisfaction and happiness. Basically, our findings suggest that happy people become satisfied with life not because they feel good but because they have developed strategies for living well (Cohn, Fredrickson, Brown, Mikels & Conway, 2009). Does Amplifying Savoring and Life Satisfaction Lead to Happiness? Research in the field of positive psychology have increasingly focused on studying things that make life worth living and looking at the good and positive things in life. Goal of positive psychology is to find ways of improving people’s lives and enhancing their well—being for future socio—emotional development (Dunn, Beard, & Fisher, 2011). Some of the ways people’s lives can be improved and enhanced is through contentment, hope, life satisfaction and happiness (Csizentmihalyi & Seligam, 2000). According to Bryant and Veroff (2007), savoring is a way of appreciating, enhancing, and attending to the positive experiences that people have and think of savoring as a blessing to positively fulfilling one’s life. With the positive psychology movement, many researchers have started looking at ways of maintaining and
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