Happiness And Religion

The area of discussion in this article was to understand the reason that religion makes people considerably happy, all the while there are many people ditching religion. This article attempts to explain why both matters are the case. This study began by researching the United States; as to how religious it is, as well as the happiness everyone felt especially when applied to five variables. Those five variables that would affect a person’s subjective well-being included: sufficient money for food, shelter, the amount of safety they felt, income, education, and lastly life expectancy by state at birth. These researchers took into consideration the objective definition of happiness that they measured on a basis of the 5 variables in that participants …show more content…
When the researchers took out this variable the results still were constant in state and individual level. The research shows that at an individual level people were not religious, but at a state level there was a substantial percentage of those that were religious.
When it came to measure the amount of religiosity in individuals in The United States there was a daily poll that people answered if religion was a part of their daily life, a simple yes or no item. The point of this research is to give an explanation as to how religion and happiness correlate. This study also attempts to explain why happiness and religion are two components that seem to make a person more religious or less religious. The hypothesis for this study would be if religion across cultures i.e. The United States and The World varies due to the characteristics of society, this study also examined the benefits of religion, and if religion is related more to happiness, and if happiness is the reason people stay religious. Different cultures are perceived as a reason to why religion is apart of daily lives and why religion tends to be more prudent in The United States than in The World, and why religion is more accepted on a group basis rather than an individual …show more content…
In this study more than two variables were used to assess a relationship between happiness and religion. There was no manipulation of variables, because the researchers were only going by the information that was already apart of the participants. The dependent variable in this study is the measure of well being or happiness, and the independent variable is the effect of the happiness increasing or decreasing an individual to be more religious or not. This was a between subject’s design because groups were compared to each