Integrative Happiness Model: Spiritual Aspects as the Local Content of Indonesian Happiness

Happiness has been influenced by culture and it is important to find out the model of happiness from a culture. The model to be tested of Indonesian people is hypothesized as an integrative model of happiness, which is formed by three dimensions: hedonia, eudaimonia and spiritual. The goal is to prove the integrative model of happiness as a model of Indonesian happiness with spirituality as the local content. Data were collected through questionnaires from 750 people who were selected by random cluster technique in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi. Furthermore, data were statistically processed using the structural equation model. The result proved that the structural model fit with empirical data. This revealed that for Indonesian people, happiness is integrative consisted of hedonia, eudaimonia, and spiritual dimension. In this research, spirituality is proven built by 4 indicators, closeness to God, patience, gratitude and sincere. Later, also proved that hedonia, eudaimonia and spirituality are related to each other. From this model, it is found there are 13 indicators that make up the model of integrative happiness and some of them give more contribution to this model, there are: have emotional balanced (hedonia); self-acceptance (eudaimonia) and act patiently in life (spiritual).