We did not observe a significant relationship between subjective happiness and activities done by retirees, refuting our first hypothesis.
This study compared differences in degree of happiness, social support, activities performed, and health and economic situation among retirees from urban and rural areas in Minas Gerais State in Brazil.
They derived joy and happiness from these activities: "I enjoy partying and taking alcohol with my friends" (male, 41), "I like talking and spending time with my friends" (male, 37) and "I love watching plays and football on TV, they make me happy" (male, 50).
This account ties happiness to excellent activity of the soul.
Even if happiness is virtuous activity of the soul, it does not confer immunity to the vicissitudes of life.
He could continue to think, as he thought in Book One, that happiness is virtuous activity (354a).
If happiness is excellent activity of the soul, the latter is understood in relation to the human function.
For as we have seen, he gives a reasoned defense of his conception of happiness as virtuous activity.
Even if happiness is virtuous activity of the soul, in some cases these goods are needed to be virtuous — for example, one must have money to be generous.
He is vindicating his conception of happiness as virtuous activity by showing how satisfying are the relationships that a virtuous person can normally expect to have.
The factors most commonly found (>5% individuals) were physical activity, happiness, being relaxed, sleep quality, sleep duration, sleep quality, waking refreshed, caffeine, mean outside temperature and humidity, time outdoors.
