Does anyone know a common test that measures happiness? I don’t want one that measures depression and I can only think of the beck… If you have one let me know please?
The shitty thing about studying psych is that everyone always focuses on the negative and disfunctional side… Now I have no working knowledge of how to measure pleasure
People concentrate on the negative because thats where the usefullness of psychology is. In taking the people we consider abnormal and making them “better”. I think its a shame. If we had more information on what makes people happy, more people would surely be upbeat. But perhaps there is information out there. I just have not found any
What you are both looking for is the field of ‘positive psychology.’ This is a relatively new area that was founded in the last 15 years to address just these concerns! Positive Psychology recognises that solving negatives, such as depression and anxiety, while important, does not make a person happy by itself.