Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life

Book Abstract

Quality of Life & Quality of Working Life aims to present a review about the antecedents of happiness by using human needs perspective. The chapter brie?y includes the de?nition of happiness as a scienti?c ma?er, de?nition of the need theories approach for explaining the antecedents of happi-ness, de?nitions and discussions about the major need theories and reconceptualization of human needs with Glasser?s Choice Theory, and also empirical studies that investigate the relationship between basic needs satisfaction and happiness. It is also thought that the conclusion obtained from this chapter will encourage researchers to investigate the antecedents of happiness with Glasser?s conceptual framework and also invite research-ers to study in a new research area with a new conceptual perspective.