Buying an uncomfortable, making an aesthetic operation, getting lovers… It seems that middle-aged crises will stop being an excuse for these practices.
A half-aged It is commonly associated with dissatisfactioncreating a “curve of unhappiness” between youth and old age.
However, a study this Wednesday revealed that This no longer happens.
The new investigation proves that the curve of unhappiness no longer exists… not because people are now happier in middle age, but Because dissatisfaction comes before, in youth.
Alex Brysoncorresponding author of the study, University College LondonI told what Young people are less happy than they used to be. That is, the crises are anticipated.
“We found that stress has been increasing among most people under 40, and increases much faster the lower the age group. We see an inclination of anguish over timewith the younger ones being increasingly distressed, ”he explains.
One, based on data from 145 countries, suggests that people are happier until 30 and after 70, with the peak unhappiness in 50.
Now, based on data from National Mental Health Inquiries in the US, which involved 10 million adults between 1993 and 2024, and in the United Kingdom, which analyzed 40,000 household aggregates between 2009 and 2023, the new study theorizes that,, Nowadays, the peak of unhappiness no longer exists.
To attest to whether this was a general rule around the world, researchers resorted to Global Minds data, a mental health research project carried out since 2020 by about 2 million people in 44 countries, including the US and the United Kingdom.
It was found that, in all nations studied, the curve of unhappiness was replaced by a gradually descending line, as unhappiness decreases with age.
Then, Are people in midlife now happier than they were? “Absolutely no!Bryson says. “Things didn’t change much to these people. Changes in (in) happiness are now in the lower half of age distribution, ”he added.
