Year: 2024, Volume: 01, Issue: 02, Pages: Pages: 80-92

THE HAPPINESS PROJECT- A LITERATURE REVIEW and an introduction to The Quantum Scale of Happiness and the Scale of Intelligence for measuring Spiritual Transformation

Original Article

Corresponding author: sandhyakanade@hotmail.com

Received Date: 29.11.2023     Accepted Date: 21.12.2023    Published Date: 31.01.2024

Abstract: Happiness is a much sought after quest not only by everyone in day-to-day life but increasingly by academia as well, given the personal and societal repercussions. This article aims to define and clarify what Happiness is, how it is produced, what factors influence it and the ways to measure it. We also explore the shortcomings of the measurements thus raising the need for a new way of measuring happiness using Dr. Goswami and Pattani’s Quantum Science Spectrum of the Scale of Happiness and Intelligence.

Keywords: Happiness, Multidimensionality, well-being, determinants, architecture and neuroscience of happiness, subjective and objective Happiness measures, Quantum Happiness, Quantum Science spectrum of Happiness.

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