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DO YOU KNOW THAT: Happiness Decreases With Age But Peaks Past 50 & 85 Is Our Happiest Year?

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How happy are you today and how happy have you been?  Do you know that your happiness level drops as you grow?

According to a new research, 85 is the our happiest year but up until then, our happiness level decreases with age…

According to MailOnline;

The prospect of ageing needn’t be daunting as we’re happiest at 85, according to new research.

An increasing number of wrinkles and getting undeniably closer to death isn’t enough to put the elderly off enjoying themselves as new research confirms we don’t get sadder as we get older.

In fact, it seems that just the opposite is true according to a wealth of evidence.

Most recently, a giant telephone poll of 340,000 people showed that after 50, people start progressively getting happier.

By 85, people were more satisfied with themselves than when they were at a bright and sprightly 18 years of age.

While researchers found happiness did decrease progressively from 18 to 50, past the ‘hump’, respondents seemed to

While the results of the U.S. Gallup telephone poll showed that happiness comes with age, it didn’t uncover the cause of this phenomenon, as reported in Live Science.

Dr. Arthur A. Stone, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was the lead author of a study based on the survey.

He speculated on the causes for this happiness.

‘It could be that there are environmental changes, or it could be psychological changes about the way we view the world, or it could even be biological – for example brain chemistry or endocrine changes.’

The telephone survey included people between 18 and 85. The survey showed that people start out at age 18 feeling pretty good. However, they feel progressively worse until they hit 50.

But after that point, people begin getting happier as they age. By the time they are 85, they are even more satisfied with themselves than they were at 18.

A British study of a smaller scale from last year came to similar findings.

The University of Warwick found happiness levels form a U-curve, reaching their low point at around 45 but then increasing as we age.

Although our physical quality of life goes down once we get past middle-age, our mental satisfaction increases.

Researchers analysed lifestyle and health patterns in more than 10,000 people in the U.S. and the UK.

They evaluated quality of life using eight different factors including perception of general health, pain, social functioning and mental health.

Dr Saverio Stranges, who led the study, said happiness may increase with age because we develop ‘better coping abilities’ to deal with hardship than younger people.

‘It’s obvious that people’s physical quality of life deteriorates as they age, but what is interesting is that their mental well-being doesn’t also deteriorate – in fact it increases,’ he added.

One study looked at people’s positive and negative emotions over the course of 23 years, and compared participants by age group. Researchers found that teenagers most frequently reported negative emotions, while octogenarians seemed to feel the least negative.



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