Are you always happy or extremely happy, experts says less happy of having little worries may be healthy than being extremely happy. According to the society that we live in now people who have everything are regarded as the most happier people, and because they have everything we also regard them as the healthiest people. But according to the study done by psychologists who researched happiness for more than decades those who are less happy are more likely to be healthy that the extremely happy people.
Dr. ED Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told Reuters Health that people who are less happy may achieve more than those who are extremely happy. He further said that they may also live longer than the extreme happier. "Our findings suggest that extremely high levels of happiness might not be a desirable goal and that there is more to psychological well-being than high levels of happiness," Diener and his team report in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
The researchers looked at six different studies of happiness and life outcomes to investigate the optimum level of happiness. One study, the World Values Survey, which included nearly 120 000 people from 96 countries, found that those who were moderately happy, rating their life satisfaction at 8 or 9 out of 10, made more money than those who rated their satisfaction level at 10. However, 10s and 9s were more likely to have stable intimate relationships.
Health24 note down that another study found that the happiest college students were also the most social, but they had lower grade-point averages than their slightly less happy peers. In four studies that looked at individuals' well-being several years after their happiness level was initially assessed, the happiest people wound up with less education and lower incomes than the moderately happy individuals.
SOURCE: Perspectives on Psychological Science, December 2007. – (Reuters Health)
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