What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from , Are people less happy or more happy the older they get If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eightyfive, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen. The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eightyfive. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twentytwo and twentyfive. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiness was highest among