According to a study
This is the happiest time in life
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The constant pursuit of happiness is a deep-rooted desire of many people. But is there a period of life in which one can speak of predominantly happy times?
Good and bad times belong to everyone’s life. While for some such a strict distinction between positive and negative periods of life, maybe even not so easy is, others clearly divide their lives into happy and dark phases. A new study now shows a trend as to which time in most people’s lives is the happiest.
Even if the question of the happiest part of life is difficult to answer due to individual circumstances, according to this study determined tendencies. The age at which we find ourselves gives indications of how positively or negatively we perceive life situations. If we only think of the time when we were in puberty, for example, then many things seemed worse to us than it actually was in retrospect.
Happiest time in life: This is how the study went
The study was conducted on groups of younger and older German adults who four years apart were asked to write a short version of theirs biography to tell. The study participants were between 8 and 65 years old.
After the test subjects first wrote down seven of their most important life memories, the researchers analyzed the respective results and divided them into whether it was a happy, neutral or unhappy event.
The result: Here is the pinnacle of happiness
The study found that the positive nature of remembered life events was generally Memories of the early 20’s at the biggest is. It was also surprising that women tended to remember their lives less positively than men. In principle, it was found that the general positivity of memories with increasing age up to around the age of 50 removed has. Thereafter are the memories again more positive. In addition, there was a tendency for early memories to be less positive than memories from late adolescence/early 20s. The time between Late teens and early 20s thus proved overall as the most positive and thus as the happiest time in life.
Sources used: psychologytoday.com