 | 3 in 10 say they are very happy. |
| 6 in 10 say they are pretty happy. |
| 1 in 10 says they are not happy. |
| 40 percent of married adults say they're very happy.
|
| 24 percent never married adults say they're very happy.
|
| 47 percent who attend at a religious institution
(church,
synagogue, mosque, etc) weekly say they are very happy. |
| 27 percent who never attend a religious institution say
they are very happy. |
AGE AND HAPPINESS:
In a survey of 2,700 people ages 25 to 74, older people were happier than
other adults despite declines in physical health, deaths of friends and spouses
and other rigors of aging. However, older women were not as happy as older men:
in Western cultures, fewer women over 45 are judged attractive by others, so
this is a source of dissatisfaction for many.
OTHER GENDER DIFFERENCES
Women generally are a little happier than men, but not by much. They were
also were more likely to have positive moods and more life satisfaction although
men become happier with age than women.
Despite this, women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, 50 per
cent more likely to suffer from anxiety, and they experience more negative
emotions in everyday life. This gender difference is less for members of ethnic
and traditional cultures. This does not contradict the overall higher happiness
of women because the clinically depressed are a small proportion of the total.
The sources of happiness are different for the two sexes. Men are more
affected by their jobs and by economic satisfaction and with themselves. Women
are more affected by their children and the health of their family and are more
self-critical. For women, physical attractiveness is very important and being
overweight is very bad. For men being tall is more important.
MONEY AND HAPPINESS:
An interview of the wealthiest as determined by Forbes magazine found they
are only slightly happier than the "average" person. Experts say the problem is
"miswanting."
What people think they want many times is not really what they want at all.
Study participants were asked to choose what they would like to eat on three
consecutive Mondays. When it came time to eat the snacks, most were unhappy with
their choices. They said what sounded good at the time wasn't what they wanted
when it was time to eat them.
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