ABSTRACT
Some of the fundamental research in measuring happiness was conducted by G. Gurin, J. Veroff and S. Feld who used the simple and straightforward device of asking respondents if they were 'very happy', 'pretty happy' or 'not too happy'. Happy people make internal, global and stable attributions for good events, whereas depressives make internal, global and stable attributions for bad events. Happy people tend to be extraverted, not neurotic, and high on internal control, and to have certain social skills and cognitive styles. The Catholic curates are the happiest of all the clergy and the Central curates are the least happy. It revealed the Catholics to be significantly happier than the Central curates. In the light of the non-significant results that analysis of variance reveals, a correlation matrix between the Oxford Happiness Inventory, the three churchmanship dimensions and the three personality dimensions of the Hans Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was run.
