This study examines how gender and age affect how individuals select what they consider to be happiness. Genders are influenced by the social roles they are grouped into and how this changes their views on different predictors of happiness. This study also examines how social structural variables influence happiness, such as marital status and income. The study divides participants into subgroups – gender and age under 25 and above to try to understand why individuals select specific events as happy moments in their lives. This study hypothesizes that predictors of happiness differ between males and females and change with age. The researchers in this study are trying to demonstrate a difference between the predictors of happiness for males and females and how the predictors of happiness evolve over the course of the aging process. An important aspect of happiness or well-being is that it fluctuates among individuals. Researchers have studied different aspects of what they believe drives changes in happiness. There is important research demonstrating the importance of gender and age on happiness. Underlying factors, such as personality, can influence an individual's outlook on being happy. When you research happiness, you find that two dimensions have different correlates. This in turn involves the argument that positive and negative affects are distinct dimensions of well-being and the balance between them serves as an index of happiness (Ryff, 1989, p. 1070). Classic studies on happiness assumed that varying sociodemographic and social structural factors, such as age, gender, marital status, and income, played a major role in individual differences in happiness (Mroczek & Kolarz, 1998, p. 13. .... half of the paper ......Wood, Rhodes, & Whelan, 1989 in their research demonstrated that women are emotional experts and are driven to be supportive and take a higher value in maintaining a relationship This study also finds that women usually experience more happiness in focusing on an intimate relationship than men. Overall, what makes individuals happy is influenced by many factors, such as their personality, self-esteem, age, and gender. At the time events occur, these moments may seem like the happiest moments, although they may be replaced in the future by something more significant. Societal pressures also affect what makes someone happy or unhappy in a given situation. Future studies should investigate how personality affects happiness and how individuals cope with affective disorders. How these diseases affect what individuals consider happiness.