Volume 10 : Issue 10.2 (2023)

Education, Happiness and Wellbeing: A Literature Review

Happiness and wellbeing are the most vital and the eventual goal of human life. Happiness is very subjective in nature and is a state of mind having positive or amiable emotions extending from serenity to inner joy. Wellbeing is a vibrant concept that includes several components like mental, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. As we know that our environment and inheritance play a substantial role in garnering happiness in our lives, but it also depends on drilling our minds to change from negative to positive thoughts in order to increase happiness. But, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the contemporary scenarios have been changed. Therefore, there is a need to study various factors that impact students’ happiness and wellbeing. This study is an attempt to look at those factors and other determinants which affect happiness and wellbeing of students. The comprehensive literature review of the past studies indicates the need to look for alternatives for the betterment and improvement of happiness and wellbeing among students proactively rather than retroactively trying to resolve problems which hardly affects their mental state. It also provides important insights about the factors which are often ignored while looking at students’ happiness and wellbeing in a broader way. It put forward some of the recommendations for the educational institutions and the higher authorities to take students’ overall wellbeing seriously and act accordingly.

Happiness, Wellbeing, academic achievement, life satisfaction, mental health

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