A recent global report found a decline in young people's happiness in North America. That's upending the idea that happiness in life follows a U shape. In North America, it now looks more like a J.

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 ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The commonly held belief that happiness follows a U-shaped curve – with peaks at the beginning and end of life – might be incorrect. But Fabian Kratz and Josef Brüderl – both at the Ludwig Maximilian ...

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