People Perceived: A Pilot Study Based on the Survey of Bankokians,

Happiness is born from not only ‘self ’ but also ‘environmental ’ elements which influence the human feeling of happiness. Following the concept of Buddhist Economics, the ecosystem relationship consisting of body-mind, human-human and human-nature is used for this analysis. In addition, there are three dimensions of happiness: ‘man, ’ ‘mind ’ and ‘environment. ’ The ‘man ’ dimension is an observed happiness model with self-reported evaluation. The ‘mind ’ dimension is explained by a descriptive analysis of the relationship between proxies of the Noble Eightfold Path using Thai proverbs and happiness factors such as age, gender, marital status, educational level. The ‘environmental’ dimension consists of two parts: social environment and natural environment. In terms of the pilot study, this study uses a random sampling survey using a happiness questionnaire. Bangkok citizens who were over 15 years old, and were living in Bangkok in March ∗ This paper is based on a thesis, ‘Happiness Concept and How Tha