It has always thought that living in Europe
provides you socio-economic stability and their standard of living is way
better than other continents as America or Africa, but having and enjoying all
the facilities and amenities does not make you happy, do they?
Children who live in Sweden, the fourth
happiest country of the World according to UN, are as happy as Chilean
children. The study was headed by Los Andes University, together with Swedish
and American researchers who evaluated the level of vital satisfaction among
729 Chilean children between 8 to 14 years old, from private, subsidized, and
municipal schools; and the data of 623 Swedish students.
According to Lisa Clefberg, director of department
the Psychology from the fore mentioned University, children’s opinions were recollected
and evaluated into ten different areas of satisfaction: parents, friends,
siblings, health, home, self-respect, school, teachers, cousins, and time of
playing.
“The results are very impressive and strong. We
thought the results of UN would reply on the Swedish Children too, but we found
that they feel very unsatisfied in many aspects in comparison to the Chilean
Children” tells Dr. Clefberg. For example, one of the aspects that shocked
the psychology community was “siblings”, in which Chilean children obtained
higher scores than their European pairs.
What about you? What’s your opinion regarding
this topic? Does the socio-economic stability have to do with the happiness of
people? Feel free to comment.
In this link you will find a blog attached from the Austin Psychology and Assesment Center. They expand on the possible reasons in children from Netherlands (another European country) for being happy.
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