Study on relationship between happiness level and communicational activities

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24830019
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: ASHIZAWA Yusuke 千葉大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 助教 (90634585)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ONO Kenta 千葉大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 准教授 (70361409)
• Project Period (FY): 2012
• Keywords: 幸福度指標 / コミュニティ活動量 / 主観的幸福度

Research Abstract

In this study, we conducted web research on the hypothesis that happiness level is proportional to the amount of community activities and questions regarding happiness level, total time of community activities with: family, workplace, friends, and so on: about 524 men and women from 20's to 60's as a preliminary survey, about 1,075 men and women from 20's to 60's as a main survey. As a result, we found relationship between happiness level and total time of activities with family, but other activities have not strong relationship with happiness level. However we found the question that “Do you have some kind of rewarding?" has strong relationship with happiness level.