This is an article I read about the relationship between age and happiness.Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after the age of fifty.
In fact, it
found that by the age of eighty-five people are happier with their life than
they were at eighteen. The findings came from a Gallup Survey of more than
three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in two thousand
eight. At that time, the people were
between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. But the people least likely to
report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as
they grow older.I think this is partly true.
However,
women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did. So why
would happiness increase with age? One theory is that as people get older, they
become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their
emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences. The
findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Yes you mind be right sometime,as people grow older they tends to be happy. But not to everybody that it occur to because some might not feel happy due to sickness. Women are more stress than men, and yes older people spend less time thinking of bad experiences.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting! However i don't think everyone gets happier as they grow old. Some are happy when they are younger because they spend their time partying and having fun and when they are old, they end up with regrets. Also younger people are healthier and stronger but older ones are prone to terminal diseases which may cause sadness.
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