Happiness Quotient of Upper Secondary School Students

This study is to identify happiness quotient among upper secondary school (high school) students. The study seeks to determine the factors contributing to the upper secondary students’ happiness based on their gender, ethnic, religion, academic stream, good friends and hobbies. A total of 1000 students in Serembanwere involved in the study. The instruments used were the research questionnaires regarding happiness of the students and OHQ. The Cronbach's alpha value for this inventory was.75. The results showed that most of the students had a moderate level of happiness. There were significant differences in happiness quotient mean with ethnic, religion, good friends and hobbies. However, there was no significant difference between happiness quotient mean with gender and academic stream.