Psychologists, self-help gurus, and parents all work to make their clients, friends, and children happier. Recent research indicates that happiness is functional and generally leads to success. However, most people are already above neutral in happiness, which raises the question of whether higher levels of happiness facilitate more effective functioning than do lower levels. Our analyses of large survey data and longitudinal data show that people who experience the highest levels of happiness are the most successful in terms of close relationships and volunteer work, but that those who experience slightly lower levels of happiness are the most successful in terms of income, education, and political participation. Once people are moderately happy, the most effective level of happiness appears to depend on the specific outcomes used to define

Emotional Intelligence is considered to be a very powerful tool to an employee to manage relationships and achieve success at work. The study explored its relationship to some of the important psychosocial variables in order to assess what exactly makes this component so useful indeed. The psychosocial variables included in the study were Quality of Work Life, Work Family Role Conflict and Perceived Happiness of female IT professionals. The variables were assessed through the following Questionnaires – (i) A measure of Emotional Intelligence, developed by Schutte et al., 1997, (ii) Quality of Life Scale, developed by Dasgupta and Pal, (iii)