Men or women?: who is happier according to science

THE happiness It is dynamic and can vary due to several factors such as age, work, relationships, purchasing power or simply the pace of life.

Some scientific research has analyzed whether There are gender differences in happinessand the results were very different.

Who is happier: men or women?

He National Institute of Statistics of Spain conducted a survey in 2022 on the living conditions of the people who live there. He 68.4% of men say they are happy it’s a 66.2% women Also.

Other results they gave a survey prepared by the Observatory of Happiness for the Creation of Health in Latin America and Spain revealed some similar data.

A 59.8% of men considered to have the feeling of happinesswhile only one 56.6% of women I thought I was happy. This survey was conducted on 44,039 people and factors such as well-being and life satisfaction were evaluated.

In in other countries the results are not the same. For example, in the United Kingdom, according to a survey of over 300,000 people conducted in 2018 by the Office for National Statistics, it was established that English women are happier Those men.

For its part, this was revealed by research conducted globally by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2022 women are happier compared to men but they have more bad days emotionally and with worse sleep quality.

Study researchers David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson explained: “Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives, such as democracy, the economy, the state of education and health services. They are also less satisfied of the present in terms of peace and calm, joy, feeling of activity, vigor, freshness and rest”.

Happiness in women

Experts discovered that there was a downward trend in the evolution of women’s happiness in recent decades. Economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers analyzed trends in US citizens’ happiness between 1979 and 2005 and spoke of a “female happiness decline paradox.”

In American women of the 1970s were generally happier and they were more satisfied with their lives than men. Subsequently, scores in women began to decrease while in men they remained the same.

A psychologist from the University of Central Lancashire, Lowri Dowthwaite-Walsh, explains why women’s happiness levels have fallen. “Despite having more freedom and job opportunities than ever, they now experience higher levels of anxiety and more mental health problems, such as depression, anger or loneliness, as well as more restless sleep. And these results are observed in many countries and in several countries. age groups.”

In conclusion, studies have established that the women are more likely to live longer than meneven if they have to face to greater inequalities, discrimination and sexual violence and factors that alter happiness.

Even if they live longer, this This does not mean that their well-being is equal to or greater than that of men.. The American Psychological Association revealed that the vast majority of women living in the United States are dissatisfied with the treatment they receive from society.