Researchers observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all. Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly ...
On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as we head into retirement, according to a number of studies. This so-called U-shaped curve ...
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Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve. People are often happiest in middle age
Happiness over one's lifetime has been popularly described as looking like a U-shaped curve: The joys of youth are followed by the challenges of our 20s and 30s before an upswing later in life that ...
A theory that’s been around for more than a decade describes a person’s subjective well-being — “happiness” — as having a U-shape throughout the course of one’s life. If plotted on a graph, the shape ...
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