Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Esha Chakraborty ¹, Ishita Chatterjee ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the relation between Materialistic Value, Spiritual Oneness Belief and Physical Oneness Belief with Happiness. Positive psychology define happiness as nothing else than an emotion, a long-term sense of emotional well-being and contentment - a broad "feeling" that one is happy The sample consisted of 100 (50 males and 50 females) young professionals (public and private sectors), selected randomly from various organizations of Kolkata and Howrah districts. 3 adapted scales namely- Materialistic Value Scale by Richin (2004), Oneness Belief Scale by Garfield, Drwecki, Moore, Kortenkamp and Gracz (2012) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Michael Argyle and Peter Hills (1998) were administered to the selected respondents. The results revealed that Materialistic Value was negatively and significantly correlated with Happiness and Physical Oneness Belief was positively and significantly correlated with Happiness. Spiritual Oneness Belief showed a mild positive correlation with Happiness. Linear regression revealed Materialistic Value to be a negative predictor of Happiness and it could predict only 11.5% of the variance. The study has application m the field of positivepsychology.

Keywords

Happiness, Materialistic Value, Spiritual Oneness Belief, Physical Oneness Belief.

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Annesha Ganguli ¹, Ishita Chatterjee ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

In the present study, we have examined the impact of Age, Gender and Socio-economic status on Morality and Valued living of 300 individuals belonging to four zones (North, South, East, & West) of Kolkata City. The results of the study revealed that (a) age of the individuals seems to have a significant impact on their morality and valued living, (b) gender of the individuals seems to have a significant impact on their morality and valued living and (c) socio-economic status of the individuals seems to have a significant impact on their morality but not on their valued living. The present study appears to be quite relevant in the present scenario of our society. The implication of the study lies in taking proper care for the inculcation of moral values among the youth as they are the future of our society.

Keywords

Morality, Valued Living, Age, Gender, Socio-Economic Status.

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