행복의 정의와 발달단계별 결정요인 = Definition of Happiness and Its Determinants

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Everyone wishes for happiness and psychologically wants to be happy. The purpose of this study is to review the definition of happiness and its determinants and also investigate the determinants by the stages of human development. Consulting the definition in the precedent researches, it was found difficult to define and measure the happiness so changed it to the term of subjective well-being, subjective happiness, quality of life, and psychological well-being in order to make them data for assessment. The determinants of happiness also can be divided variously by the age from childhood to the senior. The amount of happiness is increasing as the academic achievement, trust, social support, and self-efficiency increase from age of childhood to adolescence. In the age of adulthood and seniors, they are influenced much by demographic-sociological variables, activity participation, surrounding environment, personality, and success of their children. In the age of early adulthood, their determinants of happiness are influence by those of all in the childhood and adolescence as well as adulthood and seniors. This study hopes that someone would set the measuring tool of happiness definition and happiness fitting to the domestic situation and measure how one becomes happy.