competence may be challenged with extreme situations such as a death, because his repertoire of experiences are less intense. Interestingly, when asked what happiness was Louise responded. Louise: um I think happiness is being generally content with your life and you really enjoy it or whatever it is that you are really happy with and you have got no issues with it so that’s what it is. This quite abstract concept of ‘contentment’ suggests that for Louise there are complexities to life which she identifies as ‘issues’ and that in order to feel happy it is necessary for these to be under ‘control’, not invading or influencing her internal thoughts and feelings. This was mirrored in Penny’s response when she said. Penny: ummm…………….. I think happiness is such a light feeling it’s really good it really makes you feel good about yourself. For Penny and Louise, they saw happiness as an enjoyable experience; it is the absence of complications of their daily life which creates an internal feeling of positivity. Their internal thoughts and feelings are positive and controlled and whilst happiness may be externally performed it was the internal and personal registering which was of significance to them. Bob roots the emotion of happiness in a lived experience of playing on his X box computer game and captures the positive feeling; the notable difference between the illustrations is that Bob’s is very much based on his external performance of winning and being noticed and admired through the game by others. He said. Bob:…………. if you kill someone …………………..it’s like happiness cos the better shot you do the more happy you’ll be, cos the more people will look at you, cos you can say what shots you shoot with……………………….. Therefore his level of happiness is changeable, intensified by the audience validation, and
competence may be challenged with extreme situations such as a death, because his repertoire of experiences are less intense. Interestingly, when asked what happiness was Louise responded. Louise: um I think happiness is being generally content with your life and you really enjoy it or whatever it is that you are really happy with and you have got no issues with it so that’s what it is. This quite abstract concept of ‘contentment’ suggests that for Louise there are complexities to life which she identifies as ‘issues’ and that in order to feel happy it is necessary for these to be under ‘control’, not invading or influencing her internal thoughts and feelings. This was mirrored in Penny’s response when she said. Penny: ummm…………….. I think happiness is such a light feeling it’s really good it really makes you feel good about yourself. For Penny and Louise, they saw happiness as an enjoyable experience; it is the absence of complications of their daily life which creates an internal feeling of positivity. Their internal thoughts and feelings are positive and controlled and whilst happiness may be externally performed it was the internal and personal registering which was of significance to them. Bob roots the emotion of happiness in a lived experience of playing on his X box computer game and captures the positive feeling; the notable difference between the illustrations is that Bob’s is very much based on his external performance of winning and being noticed and admired through the game by others. He said. Bob:…………. if you kill someone …………………..it’s like happiness cos the better shot you do the more happy you’ll be, cos the more people will look at you, cos you can say what shots you shoot with……………………….. Therefore his level of happiness is changeable, intensified by the audience validation, and
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