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In today's society, when it comes to whether there is happiness, many of us may answer no. Many pressures such as work, life and study make us feel unhappy. But have we ever wondered if we want too much and want too much to make ourselves so tired? On the contrary, sometimes simplicity may be the greatest happiness. Psychologists from Germany found through research that people's happiness is constantly changing with age, but for people of different ages, their understanding of the meaning of happiness is different.
So how can we increase happiness? Let's see what scientists can do for you.
1 Eating more fruits and vegetables can increase happiness.
A study by the University of Warwick in Britain shows that eating more fruits and vegetables can greatly improve people's happiness.
The study will be published in the famous American Journal of Public Health. This study is the first major scientific attempt to explore that fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.
If you eat more than 8 servings of fruits and vegetables every day, you will feel happy.
The researchers concluded that people eating eight servings of fruits and vegetables a day instead of almost eating them will increase people's life satisfaction, which is equivalent to people's feeling from unemployment to employment. Happiness will increase within 24 months.
This study randomly surveyed 12000 people. Research topics include recording their daily food intake and measuring their mental health. Through the improvement of diet within two years, the researchers found changes in people's minds.
2SPPS: Couples who have sex once a week are often the happiest.
Recently, a research report published in the international magazine Society of Personality and Social Psychology pointed out that there are too many? Sex? It may not always make you happy; Researcher Amy Muise said that although high-frequency sex is directly related to more happiness, when the frequency of sex exceeds once a week, the above relationship is no longer obvious. This research is very important for keeping close contact with your partner, but we don't need to do it every day? Sex? To keep this close relationship.
Previous studies and some articles have said that more sexual life equals more happiness, but in this study, based on the research of more than 30,000 Americans in the past four years, researchers found for the first time that when the frequency of sexual life between husband and wife exceeds once a week, the relationship between sexual life and happiness will be greatly reduced. The study does not determine the causal relationship between the two, nor does it tell us whether having sex once a week can make your partner happy, or whether it is necessary for your partner to have a high frequency to maintain a happy relationship? Sex? .
3JESP: Couples who work in the same direction are happier.
? Buying a house and where to buy it are the top priority for many couples when they get married. Some people will choose the middle of the work unit, thinking it is fair to both sides, but it may be a wrong choice. Because a study shows that both husband and wife go to work in the same direction, which will increase the happiness of marriage.
Ailing Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her colleagues did a study. The results show that married couples will feel happier in marriage if their work units are in the same direction, because it makes them feel that they have the same life goals.
In this study, the researchers conducted two surveys. In the first survey, they asked 280 married office workers living in the United States. The average age of these people is 33, and the average age of marriage is 8 years. The survey results show that couples who work in the same direction have significantly higher happiness in marriage, and this happiness will not be affected by some other factors, such as the length of marriage, the number of children, the salary level and the time spent on the way to work.
It is found that the happiness of the wife can determine the quality of marriage more than the happiness of the husband.
A recent study conducted by Rutgers University in the United States found that when it comes to a happy marriage, the more satisfied a wife is with her long-term married life, the happier her husband and wife are together, regardless of his personal feelings about marriage. ? I think the key is that when a wife is satisfied with her marriage, she will pay more for her husband, which will have a positive effect on her life. ? Deborah from the Department of Sociology and the College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University? Professor Deborah Carr said this. ? Husbands rarely express their personal feelings about sexual relations, and their unhappy marriage may not be passed on to their wives. ?
Karl and Vicki Freedman, a research professor at the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Michigan, will publish this research on the marital quality and happiness of the elderly in the June 5438+ 10 issue of Marriage and Family magazine.
The difference between this study conducted by two schools and previous studies is that it investigates the personal feelings of both spouses to determine how these marital evaluations will affect the happiness of the elderly. The researchers analyzed the data of 394 couples who were part of the 2009 National Study on Income, Health and Disability. At least one spouse is over 60, and the average age of marriage is 39.
In order to evaluate the quality of marriage, the couples involved in the study were asked a series of questions, such as whether their spouses appreciated themselves, whether they quarreled with themselves, whether they understood their feelings, or whether they were bored. In addition, they were asked to record in detail their happiness in doing certain activities in the past 24 hours, such as shopping, doing housework and watching TV. People who participated in the study generally thought that their life satisfaction was high, with the highest satisfaction of 6 points and the average score of 5 points. Carl explained that in addition, the husband's attitude towards marriage is slightly more positive than that of his wife.
5PNAS: Choice and behavior affect long-term happiness.
A study found that regardless of genetic and personality characteristics, choices and behaviors will affect long-term happiness. The research results were published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on June 4th, 65438/KLOC-0.
Bruce Headey and his colleagues analyzed the survey data conducted by the German Social and Economic Committee, which was a series of annual surveys of adult and young family members between 1984 and 2008. The results show that during these 25 years, the happiness of a large number of German population has experienced long-term and seemingly lasting changes.
The authors think their findings are related to popularity? Set point? The latter thinks that the long-term stability of a person's happiness is due to personality characteristics and genetic factors. It is found that life goals and choices, religion, partner's emotional stability, work-leisure balance, social participation and healthy lifestyle have similar or greater effects on life satisfaction than extroverted, married or married people.
6PNAS: Happiness is enhanced after half a century.
A telephone survey shows that after the age of 50, Americans can feel daily happiness more than young people and have less time to feel pressure and worry. The research paper was published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on May 17.
Arthur Si Tong and his colleagues reported that the Gallup telephone survey data of more than 340,000 Americans in 2008 confirmed the previous report that people's overall happiness would increase as they passed middle age, and they also provided additional information about the age and gender differences of people's daily positive and negative emotions. Most of the time before the telephone survey, respondents answered yes or no to the question whether they felt happy, happy, stressed, worried, angry and sad.
7 Psychology sci: Can money buy happiness?
Although the older generation has often taught us for decades: money can't buy happiness (? Happiness needs to be experienced? )。 However, researchers have found new evidence that spending money can really make our lives better, as long as we don't buy the wrong things.
So, what do we need to buy to improve our happiness index? Scientists have analyzed 77,000 bank transaction records in Britain and found that people's life satisfaction will increase when they buy goods that meet their personal needs.
This conclusion sounds obvious, but this is the first study on the happiness of spending money for yourself (rather than giving it away).
? Previous studies have found a subtle link between money and the overall life index? Joe Gladstone, the lead author of the study and a researcher from Cambridge University, said: We have proved through evidence such as real bank transaction records that as long as we buy things that meet our physical or psychological needs, our happiness will be enhanced? .
8JHS: Is happiness your DNA?
The master said that happiness is a state of mind. According to scientific research, it may actually be caused by genes.
They found that the residents of a country have some genetic variation, and they have a higher sense of self-happiness. At the national level, happiness is more closely related to this genetic variation than wealth, national stability and even epidemics. For example, why do Nigerians feel happier than Germans? ? Feeling happy, relaxed and happy does not depend on the prosperity and security of a country. Michael Mincov, a researcher on the study, said? In fact, the relationship between happiness and security seems to be the opposite. The highest murder and robbery rates in the world are in northern Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, and people in these areas are just the happiest and most relaxed people. ?
Mincov and his colleague Michael Harris Bond rely on global values surveys. Global value survey? Mainly according to the questionnaire survey, respondents choose according to their own? Very happy? ,? And happy, not too happy? Or? Unhappy? . Are they more common among ethnic groups? Allele? Data is a mutant gene involved in regulating cannabinoids, which can improve sensory pleasure and help relieve pain.
International food research: the happiness brought by unexpected food
As we all know, take a bite of a certain food and expect its taste? Whether it's a pleasant or disgusting process. A new study published in International Food Research shows that surprising or disappointing food can change a person's mood.
We measure people's emotional reactions in different ways. A research team from all over the world observed the effects of eating different yoghurts on mood.
They found that eating vanilla yogurt will make people feel happy, and yogurt with lower fat content will give people a more positive emotional response. Their research results also show that even if people have different tastes, there is no big difference in the emotional effects of different fruit yogurts.
? We are surprised to find that by measuring emotions, we can get information about whether people like products or not. Dr. Jozina Mojet, the first author of this study, said. ? This kind of information may be very valuable to product manufacturers, and it can enlighten them on our subconscious reaction to products. ?
10 compassionate people lead healthier and happier lives in their later years.
According to a new study by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, older women? Brave? Some people and people who have recently experienced major injuries are most likely to have sympathy for strangers, while compassionate people are healthier and happier in their later years.
According to reports, the researchers said that because compassionate behavior is related to better health and happiness in old age, their findings can provide insights on how to help people who lack compassion, because lack of compassion may make them lonely and isolated in their later years.
Dr Lisa Eyler, co-author of the study and professor of psychiatry at the University of California, said? We are interested in any method that can help the elderly to grow old more successfully. ? She said:? We know that social connection is very important for health and happiness, and we also know that people who want to be friendly to others can get greater social support. ? She also mentioned: If we can cultivate people's compassion, we can improve their health and happiness and even make them live longer. ? This study is based on a survey of more than 65,438+0,000 adults randomly selected in San Diego County. The subjects were all over 50 years old, and the median age was 77 years old. This survey identified three factors that can predict the degree of self-proclaimed sympathy, namely, gender, recent pain and high psychological resilience.
1 1 Nat Commune: Where is happiness?
It is pointed out that increasing hypothalamic secretin can improve people's mood and vigilance, and it is expected to treat mental diseases such as depression through quantifiable brain abnormalities such as targets. In addition, this study also detected the release of MCH (melanie concentrated hormone) for the first time. The researchers found that the level of MCH was the lowest when awake and increased significantly during sleep, which indicated that this polypeptide played a key role in making people sleepy.
? This study can help us understand narcolepsy and depression that often accompanies this disease. Professor Jerome Siegel, a senior author of this article, said. ? Studies have also shown that the lack of hypothalamic secretin may also lead to other types of depression. ?
An article published by Siegel's team in 2000 showed that hypothalamic secretin in the brain of narcolepsy patients decreased by 95%. Because depression is closely related to narcolepsy, Siegel's laboratory began to study whether hypothalamic secretin is also related to depression.
12Mol psychiatrist: the obesity gene FTO is also a happy gene.
Why are some people happier than others? A new study confirms that FTO is a gene significantly related to obesity, and it can also reduce the probability of a person suffering from depression by 8%. The related research was completed by researchers from McMaster University in Canada, and the research results were recently published in Molecular Psychiatry.
David Meyre, an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, pointed out that FTO is not only a gene related to obesity, but also a gene related to happiness.
The report pointed out that an earlier experiment on twins and siblings showed that the genetic factors of depression accounted for 40%, but the subsequent attempt to find out the relationship between genes and depression was surprising but failed, and no evidence was found to show that there was a correlation between them.
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