ABSTRACT
Happiness is an elusive concept, especially with the negative introject ever ready to destroy it. Just when a person is feeling happy and pleased, the negative introject is bound to pop up and spoil the happiness. In Maslow’s psychology, he took the opposite view and emphasized positive conditions, such as self-actualization, or a desire to fulfill each person’s potential. Happiness is defined as a result of individuals being “reality centered,” “problem centered,” truth seeking, upright, and possessing wholeness, self-sufficiency, and many other traits he considered essential. Some groups can be especially happy and barricade themselves against negativity. Many religious people can maintain positive states for much longer than nonreligious people, especially when they are in worshiping group.
