January 2009

Young unemployed adults need more help to deal with mental health problems, the Prince's Trust charity has warned. One in 10 youngsters questioned in a survey disagreed that "life was really worth living". Those not in work or education were less likely to be happy....

BYU study: Health decline makes happier couples Associated Press - January 3, 2009 1:25 PM ET PROVO, Utah (AP) - A Brigham Young University study says that couples who have one member experiencing a decline in health report a happier marriage afterward. The study is published in...

IT is that time again when it is customary to wish everyone a Happy New Year! The operational word is, of course, "Happy"! But it may not be so for this year, if what have been forecast for 2009 is to be believed. Many pundits...

Physical Disability Brings Marital Happiness ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2009) - A new study finds that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brigham Young University professor Jeremy Yorgason's findings - reported in the academic journal Research on Aging - show what happens...

From livemint.com a publication of the Wall Street Journal The secret to happiness, science would have us believe, is shaped like a kidney and weighs less than 1kg. You can"t see it working (not directly, anyway), and its inner mechanisms were largely a mystery until recently. You...

HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS! Happiness can be contagious. This is the discovery that Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University medical sociologist, with James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, have co-authored. Christakis said: "Happiness is like a stampede. Whether you're happy depends...

Do you sometimes move automatically and unconsciously through life, reacting to people and situations? It often seems that mindlessness, rather than mindfulness, permeates our lives. We mindlessly stuff ourselves at the dinner table, whittle away hours in front of the tube, or succumb to our shopping...

Why We"re Still Happy By SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Published: December 26, 2008 THESE days, bad news about the economy is everywhere. So why aren"t we panicking? Why aren"t we spending our days dejected about the markets? How is it that we manage to remain mostly preoccupied with the...

'Tis the season to be jolly, and to give to charity. Hard to do in this economic environment? Consider that the working poor give a higher percentage of their meager income to charity than the wealthy and middle class, and that the only reliable way...