Recently science focuses its studies on various aspects of human personality and person’s life. The work reflects the results of a survey of personal happiness and personal life challenges resilience. Psychological stability based on an optimistic perception of life situations and satisfaction with life positively affects person’s work effectiveness.
Human Happiness in Different Periods of Life
A personal standard of living is the subject of economic research, which is based on the financial well-being of an individual. In recent years, economic analyses have focused on studying the U-bend of life. Analysts survey the dependence of human happiness on age. They hesitate whether age is a fundamental indicator or not (The U-bend of life, 2010).
The analysis of a person’s happiness level at different stages of life has revealed that older people feel happier, even though they are not as active as before. In this connection, the concept of U-bend has emerged, since a happiness level is high in childhood and declines in mature age, it takes the form of an inverted arc with the subsequent increase in the level of happiness in the old age. Among other indicators that affect the satisfaction with life, is the type of person’s character, which is singled out by analysts. For example, neurotics are prone to depression, attacks of anger and rage, they prefer a more closed way of life, which affects their dissatisfaction with life. While people, with the extrovert character, are the exact opposite of neurotics.
Moreover, important factors are the presence or absence of a family, children, and race belonging, the availability of education, the level of income, the impact of life circumstances and lifestyle of the cohort. It is interesting that families in which there are children are less happy than those families in which there are no children. This is due to the fact that all child and adolescent problems inevitably burden the lives of all other family members by transferring their dissatisfaction with life to others (The U-bend of life, 2010).
Resilience as the Main Aspect of Personal Life Fitness
The success of a person in life and society as a whole depends on his or her psychological characteristics. Life and work situations cause a person to endure various kinds of emotional, and sometimes physical, tests, which can even result in an outright personal failure. Unfortunately, the majority of people encountering failure take it for granted and no longer take any further action to achieve the result or do not try to define new goals for achievement.
Some psychological models were developed to identify the causes of human inaction and humility in the face of unresolved problems and setbacks, and their effectiveness was tested on soldiers. The psychological fitness, spiritual fitness, emotional fitness, family fitness and social fitness modules were taken for consideration. As a result, it was revealed that human nature is equally susceptible to all of the above models. A success is gained by those people who have an optimistic view on life circumstances. However, with proper approach and training, a person may become resilient (Seligman, 2011).
Ninety-five percent of success depends on person’s psychological state and inner perception of life’s challenges. Insecurity in their abilities, problems with loved ones, financial problems, etc. negatively influence achieving one’s personal life goals. Only optimistic and confident people can accept defeat and do everything possible to improve it.
References
Seligman, M. (2011). Building resilience. Harvard Business Review. Web.
The U-bend of life.(2010). The Economist. Web.