Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

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Welcome to your Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

A 29-item scale measures your overall happiness. The questionnaire developed by psychologists Michael Argyle and Peter Hills at Oxford University.

Instructions-

  1. Please read the statements carefully, some of the questions are phrased positively and others negatively.
  2. Don’t take too long over individual questions; there are no “right” or “wrong” answers (and no trick questions).
  3. The first answer that comes into your head is probably the right one for you.
  4. If you find some of the questions difficult, please give the answer that is true for you in general or for most of the time.
I don’t feel particularly pleased with the way I am.

I am intensely interested in other people.

I feel that life is very rewarding.

I have very warm feelings towards almost everyone.

I rarely wake up feeling rested.

I am not particularly optimistic about the future.

I find most things amusing.

I am always committed and involved.

Life is good.

I laugh a lot.

I am well satisfied about everything in my life.

I don’t think I look attractive.

There is a gap between what I would like to do and what I have done.

I am very happy.

I do not think that the world is a good place.

I find beauty in some things.

I always have a cheerful effect on others.

I can fit in (find time for) everything I want to.

I feel that I am not especially in control of my life.

I feel able to take anything on.

I feel fully mentally alert.

I often experience joy and elation.

I don’t find it easy to make decisions.

I don’t have a particular sense of meaning and purpose in my life.

I feel I have a great deal of energy.

I usually have a good influence on events.

I don’t have fun with other people.

I don’t feel particularly healthy.

I don’t have particularly happy memories of the past.

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