a post by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Most textbooks in social psychology teach students the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are essentially independent of age. Based on data on 1.3 million randomly sampled individuals across a large number of countries, this column argues instead that humans have a fundamental tendency to a midlife low which is apparently substantial and not minor. This puzzling phenomenon seems an important and fundamental one, and its existence should not be ignored.
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I found this article fascinating. It explained me to me!! I've not totally recovered from the midlife low because there are other mental health factors to be considered but I am certainly more contented and satisfied with my life than I was twenty years ago.
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