Family is the most influential factor on happiness in high school students

Zhenzhu Wu

School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.65049                

Abstract

This study is to investigate the influential factors on the happiness of high school students with questionnaires in Guangdong province. The results show that family, health, character, life, ideal, learning, friend, education, leisure are the influential factors on happiness. Among these influential factors, family is the most influential factor on high school students’ happiness, followed by health.

Keywords

High School Student; Happiness; Influential Factor; Family; Health

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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