Role of mindfulness, belief in personal control, gratitude on happiness among college students

Pages: 1184-1186
Saurabh Chavan, Juhi Deshmukh, and Bhupender Singh (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra)

The purpose of this research is to explore how happiness is influenced by mindfulness, belief in personal control and gratitude. Students of Savitribai Phule Pune University (n=100) with age group ranging from 21-30 years administered Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Hills and Argyle; Five Facet Mindfullness Questionnaire by Baer; Belief in Personal Control Scale (BPCS) by Berrenberg and the Gratitude Questionnaire-6 (GQ-6) by McCullough. The association between the varibles was tested by pearson product moment correlation and the best predictors of happiness were predicted by step-wise regression analysis. Results showedpositive significant correlation between mindfulness, belief in personal control, gratitude and happiness; gratitude (36%) and mindfulness (13%) were found to be the best predictors of happiness.