Features of the feeling of happiness among psychology students of different specialties

This article is devoted to the problem of feeling of happiness in modern psychology students. The article analyzes the main approaches to the concept of «happiness» in foreign and domestic psychology. This phenomenon is considered as a value attitude of a person to the world. The conclusion is made concerning the insufficiency of development of this problem in theoretical and experimental research in domestic and foreign psychology. The article contains the results of the empirical research conducted by the authors concerning the level of feeling of happiness in modern students of service psychologists and students of clinical psychologists. To test the differences in the indicator of happiness in students of different specialties, the authors used Student's t-criterion, the calculations of which were carried out by means of statistical calculation with the help of the electronic program SPSS Statistic. The obtained results allow us to talk about the peculiarities of the feeling of happiness in students of different specialties. The presented information may be of interest to psychologists-practitioners of the sphere of education. Theoretical significance. The results of the study expand the area of existing theoretical ideas about the subjective feeling of happiness in students of different specialties. Practical significance. The obtained results can be used to study the psychological well-being of the student's personality by teachers and psychologists of general educational institutions, as well as in the preparation of scientific and methodological materials on working with students of different specialties, in the reading of relevant courses in higher and secondary educational institutions and at the departments of advanced training of workers from the field of education.