Explain what the objective roots of happiness are based on current research described in your text
What will be an ideal response?
a . Objective roots of happiness refer to objective features of one's life that can correlate, or fail to correlate, with life satisfaction.
b. Examples of objective roots of happiness include having enough money, a good marriage, a nice house, a good job, children, good friends and so forth. Success on these features tends to go with success according to biological and cultural standards.
c. The exception to those examples is having children. People with children are generally not as happy as people without children. Parents are often unable to see this, even when faced with objective evidence, because they need to justify the sacrifices they make and because they do not want to see having had the children as a mistake. Having children, however, does increase the level of meaning in one's life, just not necessarily the level of happiness.
d. The relationship between most objective predictors of happiness and actual reported happiness is relatively weak. The one exception to this is the level of social connections, or friendships. Stronger social connections is strongly related to objective happiness.
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