Predicting of happiness based on meaning in life, altruism and forgiveness

Welfare has been always one of the human’s concerns. Happiness is a component of it. The purpose of current study was to predicting of happiness based on meaning in life, forgiveness and altruism. Paticipans were 170 of Students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modarres University who were selected by available sampling metod. They answered the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Interpersonal Forgiveness Inventory and Adapted Self – Report Altruism Scales. Data were analyzed by simultaneous regression method. The results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed a significant positive relationship between happiness and the meaning in life. Moreover, there are significant positive relationships between forgiveness and happiness. Furthermore, regression analysis showed that Meaning in life and forgiveness can predict happines.