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Summary
Introduction:
This study was conducted to discover the relationship between happiness and willpower in the Egyptian society, specify the elements and mechanisms that can increase happiness, find the ways of strengthening willpower as a tool of increasing happiness, understand the relationship between quality of life and both happiness and willpower, and understand the relationship between personality traits and both happiness and willpower. Moreover, this study is meant to be a step forward in the field of positive psychology.
People always want to feel happy, and avoid negative feelings. Positive feelings help with facing difficulties and bearing pain. These feelings make the person keen to take safety precautions in the time of danger, and they reverse the effect of negative feelings. Psychological research has always cared about negative feelings; it did not concentrate a lot on positive feeling and their function; however, they form an important indicator to what happens in the person’s life.
Increasing happiness needs lots of work using willpower, and reaching goals is accompanied by happiness. This process increases self-confidence and improves psychological health.
The relationship between happiness and volition deserves to be well-studied as it is very beneficial to individuals and it can make them more productive. Further, the whole society can benefit from it.
Importance of this study:
First: theoretical importance:
This is the first study in the Arab World that analyzes the relationship between happiness and volition, and the studies about either happiness or volition are rare. Therefore, I am trying to fill these gaps in my study.
I provide the most important ways of strengthening willpower which are approved in other different studies.
This study is considered a step forward in one of the new branches of psychology that is called positive psychology. The results can be used to improve quality of life for everybody, and to introduce this branch to the Egyptian society.
This study also provides a scientific definition of happiness and its causes. It provides a good scale for happiness, and introduces another scale for willpower that is suitable of Egyptians. It summarizes the important findings about willpower. It discovers the mechanisms that Egyptians use to overcome their everyday difficulties to find happiness.
Second: practical importance:
The level of happiness declined in the Egyptian society as a result of the economic and social circumstances that we go through now. All of us can feel this fact, and it is also mentioned in the UN report that was conducted in 2013. It showed that Egypt is the most country that had a decrease in the level of happiness since 2005. Therefore, I try to participate in improving the level of happiness in our society by declaring the activities that can help with that.
I am summarizing in my thesis the factors that can improve also willpower, which can help whoever want to be more successful.
The current study also explains some of the negative feelings that accompany failure in accomplishing goals.
Objectives:
Discovering the role of willpower in causing happiness, and knowing more about the relationship between them
Knowing the mechanisms and strategies that can improve happiness
Finding ways that can strengthen willpower, and consequently enhancing the feeling of happiness
Knowing the latest ways that can improve positive feelings and well-being
Participating in developing positive psychology in Egypt
Hypotheses:
1. There is a significant difference between males and females on happiness grades
2. There is a significant difference between married and unmarried people on happiness grades
3. There is a significant difference between people with different occupations on happiness grades
4. There is a significant difference between people with different educational level on happiness grades
5. There is a significant difference between people who have different levels of quality of life on happiness grades
6. There is a significant difference between males and females on volition grades
7. There is a significant difference between married and unmarried people on volition grades
8. There is a significant difference between people with different occupations on volition grades
9. There is a significant difference between people with different educational level on volition grades
10. There is a significant difference between people who have different levels of quality of life on volition grades
11. There is a significant difference between males and females according to quality of life
12. There is a significant difference between people from different levels of quality of life according to the marital status
13. There is a significant difference between people from different levels of quality of life according to occupation
14. There is a significant difference between people from different levels of quality of life according to education level
15. There is a significant difference between males and females according to personality traits
16. There is a significant difference between people with different personality traits according to the marital status
17. There is a significant difference between people with different personality traits according to occupation
18. There is a significant difference between people with different personality traits according to education
19. There is a significant difference between people with different personality traits according to quality of life
20. There is a significant correlation between happiness and volition
21. There is a significant correlation between happiness and quality of life
22. There is a significant correlation between happiness and personality traits
23. There is a significant correlation between volition and quality of life
24. There is a significant correlation between volition and personality traits
25. There is a significant correlation between happiness and the demographic variables
26. There is a significant correlation between volition and the demographic variables
27. There is a significant correlation between quality of life and the demographic variables
Results:
The current study found a significant correlation between happiness and volition, and volition has an effect on happiness. This correlation is affected by personality traits and quality of life. There was a significant correlation between happiness and personality traits. Neuroticism, acceptance and conscience affect happiness in general. There is correlation between happiness and the level of education, and the latter has an effect on positive feelings and passion to life. There is no relation between happiness and age, gender, or occupation.
There is a relationship between volition and personality traits, and the personality traits that affect volition the most are, in order: neuroticism, and then both extraversion and conscience. There is no correlation between volition and demographic factors. There is correlation between quality of life and age, education level and gender. Age affects quality of life; the older the person gets, the better his quality of life becomes. There is no relationship between quality of life and both marital status and occupation.
There is correlation between happiness and quality of life in general, and quality of life has an effect on happiness. There is no correlation between volition and quality of life.
Concerning the qualitative question about the elements that can cause happiness, it was concluded that the first five elements are, in order: being with people we love, worshipping, the happiness of my family members, success, and helping others.