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The goal of the research was to find out, how happiness appears in young women’s everyday life. Purpose was to get knowledge how human relationships, free-time, health, education and economic situations have a effect on happiness and what other factors influence happiness. The theory of research is grounded on many researches and scientific literatures of happiness. In studies happiness is examined in typical way of home economics and views are present in everyday life and in home economics operation. With the help of group interviews it was found out how happiness appears in young women’s everyday life. In group interview participated six young adult women age of 21–27 years old, who study in Helsinki University home economics science and they live in domestic partnership. The researches were recorded and because of that analysing material was possible. The frame of the interview was made for the research in which the themes (human relationships, studying, free-time and economic situation) found out, how selected themes influence happiness and what is their role in everyday life. More information of happiness was gathered by questionnaire. In questionnaire was asked interviewee’s age, gender, about domestic partnership and residence and how they see their health and experience their happiness. Four influencing factors of happiness were asked in questionnaire. Purpose was to find out, do the interviewees experience happiness in the same ways as the research was shown and was there something else that were not in the researches. Results were analysed by content analysis. While analysing the results, it was noticed that researches and interviews results were quite similar. Based on interviews human relationships and health influence the most to happiness. Free-time, studying and that kind of economic situation that person can live with was seen to have an influence to happiness. Previously mentioned are also important factors to happiness recording to literature. In results was found out that good food, comfortable and clean home, sense of security, a pet and having a baby also increases happiness. From these, only sense of security came up in literatures. Based on researches and results it can note that the things that increase happiness are more spiritual factors than material factors. Happiness is often occurring in everyday life, in that moment we live most of our time.