1 Success and Happiness Questionnaire and Free Self Help

SUCCESS and HAPPINESS WEB SITE
Dedicated to Human Growth and Development
at California State University, Long Beach
Tom G. Stevens PhD

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Web Site Features

1. Find Your HAPPINESS QUOTIENT (HQ) Score

Your HQ is based upon factors found to be related to your happiness in a way that is analogous to how your IQ is related to factors of the Intellect. Your HQ Score is your "happiness IQ" and is based upon our research showing an overall correlation of R = .865 between SHAQ scales and Overall Happiness. Other research results are summarized below. Your HQ values, beliefs, and life skills may be powerful influences on your past, current, and future happiness. These HQ factors are CONTROLLABLE factors: you can choose to be happy by improving SHAQ results and recommendations to maximize your future happiness. You will receive your HQ score and more information about HQ when you complete the SHAQ questionnaire.

2. SHAQ CARES Assessment and Recommendations

The Success and Happiness Attributes Questionnaire (SHAQ) is a Computer Assessment and Recommendation Expert System (CARES) that is based upon research on more than 3,400 people. In our research SHAQ scales correlate significantly with (1) reported health, (2) lower depression, anxiety, and anger, and (3) measures of success and happiness in all life areas--including relationships, career, college, spiritual, self-development, and overall life happiness. The SHAQ scales had moderate to high positive correlations with almost all outcome measures. SHAQ’s scales had surprisingly high multiple correlations with the emotional outcomes; with Overall Happiness, R = .865; with Low Depression R = .730, with Low Anxiety R = .675; with Low Anger-Aggression R = .701.(N = 1123 for all analyses.) For Relationship Outcomes Scale R = .693; for Health Outcomes Scale R = .816; for Highest Personal Income R = .486. For Highest Education Completed R = .458 and for College GPA R = .393. 1

==> To view or download a paper summarizing the development and research results of SHAQ, click here.

[To see slides of a professional paper and earlier sample research results, go to Dr. Stevens' companion web site and view the slides at http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/SHAQ.htm].

SHAQ can automatically assess a wide variety of personal attributes and HQ factors (or a similar term is "emotional intelligence" or "EQ" factors) that relate to success and happiness in life areas including the following:

	Self-Esteem, self-confidence, and internal control of your life
	Life Skills (self-management, emotional coping, interpersonal relationship, academic, and career-related).
	Relationships (especially marriage, family, friendships, and romantic relationships). Improve conflict resolution, interpersonal communication skills, romantic habits. Improve romance, relationship, and marital happiness.
	Overcoming fears of rejection, need for approval, and shyness; meeting people and dating skills.
	Negative Emotions (unhappiness, depression, stress and anxiety, and aggression and anger). Improve self control of emotions.
	Autonomy, assertiveness, and self-actualization.
	World view (and related positive and negative thinking).
	Academic achievement and completion of intended degrees (factors that may affect your academic retention, grades, and overall success). Improve grades and meet academic goals.
	Career (job) interests and achievement.
	Top life values, beliefs, and goals for achievement, .
	College Major (or Minor) Interest Test option. (You may complete a special test for helping you choose a college major or minor; helps choose from a set of majors/minors offered by most large universities.)

Self-Reflection and Insights. Answering the questions is a process that can be valuable in itself. It gives you the opportunity to look at many aspects of your values, beliefs, and life skills. It gives you the opportunity to think about what is important to you and what aspects of yourself you would like to improve. The automatically scored results will give you a second chance for reflecting upon yourself and will give you help links for getting additional information.
For example, if you are a little shy and lonely and want to become more outgoing and friendly or want to improve your love life, SHAQ may detect underlying causes and lead you to direct on-line help that can help you overcome fears of rejection, build communication, assertiveness, and meeting people skills and increase your self-confidence. If want to examine your spiritual, religious, or "my philosophy of life" views, get feedback from SHAQ about your beliefs and values.

Assess Yourself with Many Short Questionnaires. SHAQ is composed of many mini-questionnaires (scales). Each scale checks an area important to your success and happiness. These mini-questionnaires include:

* Self-esteem, self-worth test	* Assertive conflict resolution test	ACADEMIC SUCCESS and INTERESTS TESTS
* Self-confidence test	* Relationship intimacy test	* Academic achievements and aptitudes test
* Self-management test	* Romantic habits and communication test	* Learning and study skills test
* Emotional coping skills test	* Relationship roles test	* Academic satisfaction and motivation test
* Internal versus external control test	* Healthy independence test	* Basic Academic Learning Factors test
* Positive world view test	* Social and Interpersonal values test	* College major and career interests
* Greatest fears test	* Achievement, success, and material values test	* Learning disabilities scale
* Happiness test	* Internal mental or spiritual values test
* Depression test	* Unconditional worth of self and others test
* Anxiety test	* Identity and ethics test
* Anger and aggression test	* Physical health and habits test

Print and Save Full Results. After completing SHAQ CARES, you will receive your full results on every scale and question in a pop-up window. You can save those results to a file and print them out for future use.

Go to Help Pages and Learn. You will receive help links to web pages that give advice and list resources for self-development and mediated coaching in your lower scoring areas. (See Help Pages below.)

Computer Requirements: At least 128 MB of RAM memory. If you are on someone else's computer, be sure and take a CD, floppy disk, or other portable storage device to save your results to. Printouts require 10-50 pages to print all the results for every question. (You can print less if you want.)
You will need a browser that includes a JAVA plug-in (version 1.3 or higher). You should have one. If you don't have one, you should be taken through a process to install one automatically.
NOTE: To check your computer for the amount of RAM: if you have Windows 95 or above, click on Start, then Settings, then Control Panel, then System. The System Properties page will list RAM. For example 128,000 KB equals 128 MB.

Click Here for SHAQ CARES Self-Assessment

3. CARES Help Pages

These web pages will list Internet links for immediate on-line help. Many pages will also give some direct advice and list other resources. (Resources for CSULB students such as student services and classes will be listed as well.) You can use the help pages without taking the SHAQ CARES Assessment, but you will be missing the chance for self-discovery to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses. To begin, click below.

Special Help For College Students: Your SHAQ results and associate help-links can help your college success by helping you improve motivation, learning and study skills, and writing and math skills. They can help you clarify your identity, values, and goals and find a major that is right for you. They can help you build self-management and interpersonal skills to help you be more successful in your career and life. If you want to improve grades or chances for career success, this is a good place to start.

Click Here for Self-Help Internet Resources Start Page

4. Free On-line Self-Help Book and Brochures (on companion web site)

You may obtain free on-line copies of chapters from the book, You Can Choose To Be Happy: "Rise Above" Anxiety, Anger, and Depression by Tom G. Stevens PhD and other free online brochures on relationships, meeting people and dealing with rejection, self-esteem, emotions, learning and study skills, career decision-making, time-management, and more.
Go to http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens.

How to Navigate Through This Web Site
The web site is arranged in a tree structure. Each page has a series of navigation boxes at the top. Click on a topic box to go to a more specific topic. Click on "Up" to go back to the next higher level in the tree or "Home" to go to the site Home Page. At the bottom of each page you will find other key links such as the link to the SHAQ CARES assessment.

Click Here to go to a Map/Outline of the Help Links part of the web site.

NOTES: The Life Success Web Site is continually being updated.

1. SHAQ Research Programs. We are interested in continued validation of SHAQ and learning more about factors that affect human health, success, and happiness. We will be preparing a journal article based upon our most recent research on SHAQ, and are also interested in cooperating with other researchers who might want to use SHAQ or any of its scales in their own research. SHAQ is free to all users and we can even incorporate new experimental scales on our website as part of SHAQ in cooperative research projects at no charge to the researcher.
=> For more information, click here to go to the page about using SHAQ in research. Interested parties should contact Dr. Stevens (see below).

2. Most of the aspects of this web site have been completed; however, it is continual development. If you find any problems or errors, or want to make suggestions, please do so.

3.We are actively looking for web links to sites that offer free self-help information. Skills or factors that affect college students success in academia and life are especially welcome. However any good references to life skills or psychological issues that may be of use to people who want to develop themselves and increase their abilities to find success, health, and happiness in life are welcome.

4. Approved by the California State University, Long Beach Institutional Review Board (IRB).

If you know of a link that includes extensive high-quality, free self-help information, please email me at tstevens@csulb.edu.
Thank you, Tom G. Stevens PhD; Psychologist/Professor Emeritus, CSULB

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Index of FREE SELF-HELP materials available on Dr. Stevens' web site

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