FEELING OF HAPPINESS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN CARING HOMES AT KHARTOUM STATE
The study aimed to Know the feeling of happiness in elderly in lodging house in Khartoum state, the researcher took a random sample consist of (35) of the elderly (23) male, (12) female, from elderly loging house in Bahir and elderly loging house in Alsajanh, researcher used the scale of true happiness which prepared by Americam Psychologists Martin Seligman, and Christopher Terson,the researcher used the Statisical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for arange of tests, namely: One Sample (T) Test - Two Samples (T) Test independent - (f) for the anaysis of variance - Pearson coefficient corrlation test - Cronbachs alpha test - Spearman and Brown test . The recearul arrived 1- Elderly does not enjoy a high degree of feeling of happiness in lodging house . 2- There is no statistically significant differences in the level of the feeling of happiness in the eldely in lodging houses according to marital status. 3- There is no statistically significant differences in the level of feeling of happiness according to the variable of Gender (male - female).
Keywords: Happiness, Caring Homes, Khartoum State.