Although institutions and countries elaborate statistics on economics, health or life expectancy, these do not usually measure the degree of well -being of a country, at least not that of their individuals. Now, the most rigorous study made to date, has begun to profile what aspects mark the ProspoRity.
And is that knowing it is essential to design policies not only to ensure survival, but also ‘a good life’, According to the authors of the study based on more than 200,000 surveys to people from 22 countries (6,290 in Spain) that has analyzed the effect of 109 variables on the degree of well -being of its individuals and discover which patterns are more universal and which more local.
“Although it may seem that the study does not contribute anything new to what is already known, it is not quite like that“Pedro A. de la Rosa Fernández-Pacheco explained, of the University of Navarra and co-author of the study.
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More unhappy youth
The first conclusion is that the material and social aspects of well -being do not necessarily coincide in all countries: in places like Brazil, Australia and the USA., Well -being increases with age, while in Poland and Tanzania decreases over the years. And although in some countries, such as Japan and Kenya, a prosperity pattern is maintained with the U -shaped age –The young and the elderly are the ones who manifest more well-being- it seems that the trend is changing and that well-being is increasingly flat to 50 and that from there increases.
This pattern reveals that people from 18 to 49 years old, and especially the youngest, are having worse now than in previous generations, especially the Spaniards who reported lower levels of flowering with respect to other age groups, said the Spanish researcher.
In general, the aspects that are most associated with well -being or ‘flowering’ in adult life are having had a good relationship with the father or mother in childhood and, above all, not having suffered abuse, having enjoyed good health and not having felt isolated at this stage of lifedetailed from La Rosa.
In addition, in practically everyone, married respondents seemed to have greater well -being than their single counterparts in many countries, according to responses to the survey, except in India and Tanzania.
In most countries, people with the highest educational level showed greater well -being, except in Hong Kong and Australia. Finally, the work reveals that almost a third of the participants went to religious services regularly, which was associated with higher levels of well -being.
EFE
