Happiness and Forgiveness among College Students

The present study was conducted to identify the difference in Happiness and Forgiveness among college students and to find a correlation between these two variables using Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Argyle and Hills, 2000) for measuring happiness and Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Thompson & Synder, 2003) for measuring forgiveness. The data comprised of 100 students out of which 50 were Male students & 50 were Female students. The statistical technique used was t-test and Partial correlation. The present study found that there was a significant difference in Happiness and Forgiveness across gender and a weak correlation was found between Happiness and forgiveness. Mean of male students were greater than females students in both variables