Happiness and its correlation with individual and contextual variables in university students.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to correlate the happiness levels of 184 undergraduate students from a Mexican university, with various individual and contextual variables. The Oxford Hapiness Questionnaire (Hills and Argyle, 2002) was applied. Most of the students had a high score in terms of level of happiness and there were no significant differences regarding the variables sex, age, career, family life, socioeconomic level, condition of working and studying, stress, academic performance, marital status. and maternity/paternity status. In the sexual orientation variable, there were significant differences: students who stated that they had a sexual orientation other than heterosexuality scored lower levels of happiness than heterosexuals.