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Role of Social Safeness in Promoting Happiness and Social W ell-being among Youth
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Feeling safe, content and happy are perhaps the most fundamental goals of life. As gregarious beings, a lot of it is eventually impacted by our need for meaningful and positive social affiliations. Through the present study we have attempted to review the various evidences indicating how feelings of social safeness can impact not only our socio emotional development but also the ultimate goal of achieving happiness and social well-being. It also focusses on the various ways of promoting social safeness amongst the youth of our community .
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social safeness, happiness, social well-being, social-affiliations
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