Gratitude and Happiness among Indonesian Youngster

Tengku Nila Fadhlia, Dina Puspita Surya

2019

Abstract

Changes in the millennial era should not destabilize the development of Indonesian youngster as citizens. Indonesian youngster is the next generation who will continue the national struggle. Previous research showed that adolescents who have a positive mindset tend to live healthier as adults rather than unhappy one. Moreover, as the next generation of Indonesia, the youngster needs to be resilient in facing globalization challenges. The more resilient youngster the more resilient Indonesia as a nation. This article describes correlation between gratitude and happiness based on empirical data from 329 adolescents in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, Indonesia, who were selected by random sampling technique. The data were collected by two questionnaires which measured gratitude and happiness, then analyzed using Pearson’s correlation product moment. This research showed a positive correlation between gratitude and happiness in adolescent. The higher gratitude the higher happiness in adolescent, and vice versa. It can be concluded that gratitude is one of the influencing factor in happiness, the more we feel grateful the happier we will be.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fadhlia T. and Surya D. (2019). Gratitude and Happiness among Indonesian Youngster.In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH, ISBN 978-989-758-464-0, pages 136-139. DOI: 10.5220/0009096401360139

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoseeh19,
author={Tengku Nila Fadhlia and Dina Puspita Surya},
title={Gratitude and Happiness among Indonesian Youngster},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,},
year={2019},
pages={136-139},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009096401360139},
isbn={978-989-758-464-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,
TI - Gratitude and Happiness among Indonesian Youngster
SN - 978-989-758-464-0
AU - Fadhlia T.
AU - Surya D.
PY - 2019
SP - 136
EP - 139
DO - 10.5220/0009096401360139