How To Don’t Worry Be Happy
Written by admin on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 in Good Mental Health.
Happiness Research
A recent study by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center finds the percent of Americans reporting they are “not too happy,” to be the highest percentage in the survey since 1972. Though the remainder of the respondents to the General Social Survey, which was released in February of this year, said they were “very happy” (32 percent) or “pretty happy” (54 percent).
“There’s an increase of discontent, uncertainty, anxiety and anger that’s a product of changes in the economy” says W. Doyle Gentry, author of Happiness for Dummies. But, Gentry also says “a rise in the number of people who describe themselves as “not very happy” does not mean they are necessarily unhappy people.
