The study finds that development does not always mean happiness

The development is more than the simple fact of being happy, and a new global study reveals that some countries are better than others with regard to general well-being.

Take it to researchers from the universities of Baylor and Harvard, who unveiled a study on Wednesday which included more than 207,000 people from 22 countries and Hong Kong. The study is published in the journal Mental health nature.

Their global study of fluoriization has examined six areas of well-being: happiness, health, meaning, character, relations and financial security, reported CNN.

Indonesia has placed the highest for flourishing, followed by Mexico and the Philippines.

Surprisingly, many countries that are generally classified in the report on the happiness of the world, such as Sweden and the United States, were only in the middle when it was a question of flourishing, according to the report.

“The uniqueness of the global flourishing study is the size: we follow 207,000 participants around the world in more than 40 different languages ​​on the six inhabited continents,” said study manager, Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of social sciences at the University of Baylor in Waco, Texas. “This gives a voice to around 64% of the world’s population.”

The researchers plan to follow the participants each year for five years to find out more about what is happening in a “good life,” said CNN.

A major discovery? The youngest around the world are struggling more than older adults.

“Perhaps one of the most disturbing characteristics of this data is that we see that when we aggregate in the 22 countries, the development tends to increase with age, so that the youngest signal the lowest levels of flourishing,” a teacher of epidemiology of the Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health told CNN.

In most countries, young adults said they did not have a strong sense of objective. Countries like Tanzania and Poland have experienced better scores among young people.

Experts suspect that there can be several reasons for this. In developed countries, young people can face greater competitiveness to get better jobs, which can cause stress.

“Young people tell us that something is wrong,” CNN Felix Cheung, deputy professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, told CNN. He is co-author of a chapter of a separate study called the World Happiness Report.

Although the richer countries have obtained a higher financial security score on the flourishing scale, they ranked lower in fields such as relationships and meaning.

“This raises important questions about how we can do economic development without compromising meaning, goal and relationships and character,” Vanderweele told CNN.

Some of the most flourishing countries, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, have not even produced the top 20 of the World Happiness Report.

The development was measured by asking 12 questions:

1. Overall, to what extent are you satisfied with life as a whole these days?
2. In general, how happy or unhappy do you usually feel?
3. In general, how would you assess your physical health?
4. How would you assess your global mental health?
5. On the whole, to what extent do you think the things you do in your life are worth it?
6. I understand my goal in life.
7. I still act to promote good in all circumstances, even in difficult and difficult situations.
8. I am always able to give up happiness now for greater happiness later.
9. I am content with my friendships and my relationships.
10. My relationships are as satisfactory as I want them to be.
11. How often do you worry about being able to respond to normal monthly expenses?
12. How often do you worry about safety, food or accommodation?

“An approach to reflect on your own development is simply to go through our 12 basic flourishing questions,” said Vanderweele.

“An respondent said that she was thinking of getting involved in a volunteer activity for a few months, and after going through and realizing that she was missing a deeper meaning, she decided to commit to this volunteer activity,” he added.

Although people can work on certain parts of development, Cheung has noted that things like conflicts or natural disasters are out of our control.

“When a person is unhappy, it’s an individual problem,” he added. “But when the population is not satisfied, it is a structural problem and a structural problem requires structural solutions.”

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