Happiness doesn’t change much with age:
…interviews with representative samples of people of all ages reveal that no time of life is notably happier or unhappier than others….
Source: “Who is happy?” from Psychological Science
Men and women are about equal overall. Women show more highs and lows but the average comes out nearly the same:
In the 1980’s collaborative survey of 16 nations, 80% of men and 80% of women said that they were at least “fairly satisfied” with life… A similar result appeared in a study of 18.032 university students surveyed in 30 countries…
Race doesn’t have a huge effect either:
Categories: Psychology, Research