The factors that influence our happiness as an individual are explained as follows, a poll was conducted for the BBC in some EU countries and the percentage of the results was used to explain the factors:
- Partner/spouse & family relationships: This is one of the factors that influence most people’s happiness, according to the results of a poll conducted for the BBC in some EU countries, this factor is the one that does influence most people’s happiness. According to the research, about 47% of the people claim that, their partner or spouse and their family is what give them much happiness.
- Health: Our health welfare is a factor that contributes a lot to people’s happiness. Regarding the results of a poll conducted for the BBC in some EU countries, about 24% of the people claim that their health welfare has a great influence on happy they can be.
- A nice place to live: If one has a nice place to live, lovely accommodation, a beautiful house, and enjoyable environment, this factor has a way of influencing one’s happiness in which about 8% of the people that participated in the poll conducted for the BBC in some EU countries said that, having a nice place to live has a way of influencing one’s happiness.
- Money & financial situation: Money and our financial state or situation also has a way of making people happy or sad, so it also has great influence on people’s happiness. Base on the results of a poll conducted for the BBC in some EU countries, about 7% of people claim that their financial situation has a way of influencing their happiness.
- Religious/spiritual life: Our spiritual or religious lifestyle and activities also have a way of influencing our happiness, for instance, we get advice, counsel from our religious centres and get free from worries and depression. We can see now that our spiritual life also has a way of influencing our happiness. According to the research, about 6% of the people claim that their religious/spiritual life has a great influence on their happiness.
- Community & friends: Our community and friends also have a way of influencing people’s happiness, such as: the way people and our friends behave to us in the community, the social amenities in our environment etc. According to the research, about 5% of the people claim that, their community and friends has a great influence on their happiness.
- Work fulfilment: In enjoying satisfaction from our job, and also the completion of various tasks in our hands, this has a way of making us happy. According to the research, about 2% of the people claim that the fulfilment is what makes them happy.
- Others: Other people are the ones who don’t know what exactly makes them happy and it is only 1% of the people that participated in the poll conducted for the BBC in some EU countries research claim that they don’t know what exactly makes them happy.