Happiness in Everyday Life

Happiness in Everyday Life: The Uses of Experience Sampling
"The strongest predictor of trait happiness was how Excited (vs. Bored) a person felt, followed by the variables Feeling Good about Self, Proud (vs. Ashamed), Sociable (vs. Lonely), feeling Active and Strong (vs. Weak). The correlation coefficients of these variables with Happiness (and controlling for age), were .58, .59, .47, and .53, respectively (with N= 799, all p?s<.0001)."