2007-03-14 11:51:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I think it can subjectively, based on someone's own personal experience throughout life. On an objective level it must be impossible...everyone has different notions of what absolute happiness is.
2007-03-14 11:57:09 · answer #1 · answered by pseudoname 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In positive psychology they have certain quantitative scales which claim to measure happiness..
If people are asked: Are you happy on a response scale from 1 - 7, then one should be able to believe what they tick in the box? One can also use questions which measure more spesific happiness; like "Are you happy with your work"? Are you happy with your economical situations" Are you happy in family events. and such. and then sum up everything:D
One may also correlate it with reports from other people about the respondents being measured.
(One objectively measures what people subjectively experience as happiness and how much. One will not be able to measure what happiness objectively is anyways - and why should one? It would not exist without people - and for people it existis subjectively.....)
2007-03-14 11:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by CeNedra 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't really put a numerical value on it because i think happiness has no limits. The happy person is one who is always busy with making others happy and has no time to think about his own problems. And since there are literally an infinite amount of not so happy people out there, it makes sense to say that happiness has no bounds.
2007-03-14 11:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by A fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Happiness is the rays of sunshine through the rain. Happiness depends on the person. Someone might be really happy but say that it's the saddest they've ever been. Someone else might be sad but say that it's the happiest they have ever been!
2007-03-14 11:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only by an individual measuring his/her happiness. It is purely subjective.
2007-03-14 11:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by luna 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not literally :] But in a sense, yes. Sometimes you are just "kinda happy" sometimes you are "extremely happy", "exstatic", ETC. It is more of a describing word than an actual concept though, i think :]
2007-03-14 11:58:04 · answer #6 · answered by Seduce A Stranger :] 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, 750 mililitres of Beaujolais. No, wait a minute - 1 litre!
2007-03-14 11:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by jaded 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
" happiness is measured not in gold, amica, but in that which warms the heart and delights the senses"
2007-03-14 12:07:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't think so as different things make different people happy.
2007-03-14 12:35:18 · answer #9 · answered by Sunny Day 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you mean exactly, but no I think you are either happy or not.
2007-03-14 12:32:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋