Experience of Happiness in a Value-Based Dimension

This work is focused on the development of conceptual and counselling-psychotherapeutic approach that considers happiness as a way of personal living of life, on the development and application of a system of diagnostic methods, reflection, phenomenological analysis of happiness as a basis for the formation of individual concept and strategy of life path to happiness, development of the ability to happy life, creation of conditions for positive value dynamics and fulfilment of personality as a basis for a happy way of life. Happiness is understood as the apex form of embodiment of values of life enhancement and development, as a self-sufficient phenomenon of body-psychic life, possessing a phenomenology of living peculiar only to it, and is investigated through personological models. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 1. Creation of a conceptual model of happiness lived in the value dimension at the spiritual, psychological and phenomenological levels. 2. empirical verification of the conceptual model of happiness in order to develop psychological technologies for increasing awareness and life stability, strengthening self-subjectivity, effectiveness of self-help and self-development of personality. 3. Disclosure of the connection of individual living of happiness in the value dimension with sociocultural value identity of the personality, its self-actualisation and resilience. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 1. Systematisation and analysis of the world scientific and practical experience in the field of studying and measuring well-being/life satisfaction. 2. Review and analyse the main theories of happiness in philosophy, sociology, psychology. 3. Hermeneutics and cultural-phenomenological analysis of representations of happiness and its value aspects in different cultures based on the analysis of fairy tales of the peoples of the world. 4. Development of the conceptual model of living happiness in the value dimension. 5. Selection and development of methods aimed at studying the value and semantic sources of living happiness, as well as "impressions of happiness" as a phenomenological basis of the ability to "be happy", to study the relationship of the phenomenon of happiness with socio-cultural value identity, self-actualisation and resilience of the personality. According to the results of the research conducted in accordance with the set tasks, we can conclude that both the methods, conceptual and empirical approach, and the obtained results are new for scientific discourse, and provide great opportunities and prospects for further research and practical application.