What's Your Happiness IQ? Test What Really Makes People Happier
A happiness quiz that tests what positive psychology research actually found about wellbeing — as opposed to what most people assume. Ten questions cover hedonic adaptation, the Harvard Study of Adult Development, income and diminishing returns, gratitude practice, mind-wandering, commuting, social comparison and the difference between hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Every answer reveals an explanation, so it teaches while it scores. A strong lead magnet for life coaches, mindset coaches, well…
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What's Your Happiness IQ? Test What Really Makes People Happier is a free quiz template with 10 questions. Take the live preview above, then copy it into your own RooQuiz account — the questions, results and follow-up are all yours to edit before you publish.
What's inside: 10 questions
Every question below comes with the template, in this order. After you copy it, you can reword, reorder or remove any of them.
- In the long-running Harvard Study of Adult Development, which factor best predicted who stayed happy and healthy into old age?Total lifetime income · Career prestige · The quality of close relationships · Years of formal education
- Hedonic adaptation describes which well-documented pattern?Happiness rises steadily with age in every country · People largely return to their emotional baseline after major life changes · Pleasure and meaning are the same thing · Negative events are forgotten faster than positive ones
- Studies on spending and wellbeing consistently find that people get more lasting happiness from:Buying higher-status possessions · Saving every spare dollar and spending nothing · Experiences, and spending on other people · Upgrading their home electronics
- How does the relationship between income and wellbeing generally behave?Completely unrelated — income has no association with wellbeing · Positively related, but with strong diminishing returns · Perfectly linear — double the income, double the happiness · Negative — richer people are reliably less happy
- True or false: regularly writing down things you are grateful for is one of the best-supported and lowest-cost ways to raise everyday wellbeing.
- Research on attention and mood found that people report being less happy when:They are doing something physically demanding · Their mind is wandering away from what they are doing · They are around other people · They are outdoors rather than indoors
- Which everyday factor is most consistently linked to lower reported life satisfaction?Living in a smaller home · Owning an older car · A long daily commute · Having fewer streaming subscriptions
- True or false: social comparison on social media is generally associated with lower life satisfaction, especially when it is upward comparison.
- In wellbeing research, what distinguishes eudaimonic wellbeing from hedonic wellbeing?Eudaimonic is short-term pleasure, hedonic is long-term meaning · Eudaimonic is meaning, purpose and growth; hedonic is pleasure and positive feeling · They are two names for exactly the same thing · Eudaimonic applies to groups, hedonic only to individuals
- Which of these is most strongly supported as a reliable way to lift mood for most people?Waiting until you feel motivated before acting · Eliminating every source of stress from your life · Regular physical activity and protected sleep · Making one large luxury purchase per year
Result levels
The total score places each respondent in one of 3 levels, each with its own message on the result page.
Happiness Myth-Believer
Score below 50Many of your instincts follow the popular story about happiness rather than the evidence — which puts you in very good company. The explanations above are the fastest correction available.
Well-Informed
Score 50–80You have a solid grasp of what actually drives wellbeing. A few of the counterintuitive findings — adaptation, mind-wandering, diminishing returns on income — are worth revisiting.
Happiness Researcher
Score 80+Impressive. You know the evidence, including the parts that contradict the popular narrative. That understanding is genuinely useful — both for your own life and for anyone you coach, teach or advise.
How scoring works
Each question has one correct answer and a point value. Correct answers add up to a total score, the total decides the level, and each answer can show a short explanation so people learn as they play.
How to use this template
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