The phrase "individual happiness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to each person's individual satisfaction or joy. For example: "The pursuit of individual happiness is a fundamental part of the human experience."
Importantly, most scientific research needs only to discern patterns across large numbers of individuals to take an easy case, determining whether widows tend to be less happy than newlyweds and this is compatible with substantial unreliability in assessing individual happiness.
Ms. Smiley suggests that contemporary Americans conceive of marriage as an arena for maximizing their own individual happiness.
Marriage for most people means the creation of a self-transcending reality in which individual happiness can be achieved.
Some would argue that the effect of money, whatever it is, can only ever be minimal because individual happiness is based on completely different criteria.
Individual happiness might have been foreseen and desired, but if as the marriage wore on happiness came to seem elusive, other goals dominated.
The historical paradox for Americans is that they believe in a republican egalitarianism – all are created equal – and in the freedom to pursue, competitively, individual happiness.
The talented actors fully inhabit the characters Amar and Bessis have created; you want them to find a way to be happy, though their individual happinesses may not always coincide.
Getting married also seems to cause a temporary blip in happiness levels: one study that tracked 24,000 German couples over 15 years found that although marriage increased happiness in the short term, as time wore on, individuals' happiness levels eventually returned to their premarital state.
One way to isolate the causal impact is to use panel data and observe what happens to individuals' happiness as they change labor status3.
We quantify an individuals 'Happiness' as their SWB value and quantify their 'Popularity' as their number of network friends counted in our bidirectional social network of reciprocal connections.
Is the pace of life - juggling childcare, a commute, work, technology and exercise - affecting individuals' happiness in the UK? Figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest we are actually working on average an hour or two less than we did in 1971 but it does not feel that way, as the internet and email mean we are never off-duty.
