Happiness and Life Satisfaction: A Correlational Study

The present study is designed to find the relationship between happiness and life satisfaction among three age groups. The age groups are; below 20 yrs, between 30-40 yrs and above 50 yrs. Satisfaction with life scale by Diener etal. (1985), and a statement 'select the face that best fits you most of the time' with five face figures (self constructed) have been taken to assess the happiness were used for collection of the relevant data. These tests were administered to 99 subjects in the three age group(33 in each group). A correlational design was used to see the relationship between happiness and life satisfaction. It was found that the correlation coefficient for all the age groups were high and statistically significant. The study concluded that there exist positive and strong correlation betweenhappmess andlife satisfaction.