"Gross National Happiness and Psychological Well-being", taken from http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/surveyReports/psychological/psycho_abs.aspx

“Gross National Happiness” is a Bhutan Government plan that evaluates the country progress not considering the gross enhancement, supposing that earning more money will make people happier –in the whole sense of the word-, but according to the Psychological Well-being that people have in their lives. So, they propose to replace “Gross National Product” for “Gross National Happiness”, as a real, effective and representative way for making public policies, and making a better country.
To achieve this objective, they’ve made many researches in Bhutan people, assisted for Harvard and other universities researchers, obtaining results as the next ones I’ll comment:
- “Social support available when having problems”: This indicator evaluates the grade by which people, when have any kind of problematic situations -so they feel sad, worried and eager, and because of that they need a person near to help them-, they feel these person (or those people) are there. In this graph, most of those polled declared to feel social support available “some of the time” (57, 86%), meanwhile almost one third (30, 89%) of the sample said to feel it “most of the time (the happiest or even healthiest people, and just an 11, 25% of the polled ones answered “none of the time".
“Frustration”: This variable describes when people feel unable to reach the goal they’ve proposed their selves and for which they’ve made an effort. In this case, surprisingly a 40 % of the polled ones said they “never” felt frustrated (almost half of the sample), and just a 5% answered to feel frustrated “often”. On the other hand, most of people admitted to have feelings of frustration “sometimes” (56%).