The phrase "decrease happiness" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation in which someone is losing happiness or becoming less happy. For example, "The loss of his job financially devastated him, causing his happiness to decrease."
Adapting to a situation tends to decrease happiness, she said, and bucking social norms tends to slow the adaptation process.
As we begin to accept that we have our own answers, stress and anxiety decrease, happiness and rich living increase.
She says that employees can make a bunch of simple mistakes in the workplace that create conflict and decrease happiness and productivity.
Our first hypothesis is that childless men and women will experience a lower sense of psychological wellbeing than parents and that being unmarried, widowed or being a woman will increase feelings of depression and loneliness and decrease happiness among those who are childless.
Most said that with age came decreasing happiness.
One may speculate that previous observations reporting decreased happiness among social media users may be associated with a widespread inflated perception of the happiness of one's friends.
Lastly, information was retrieved on the potential impact on mood, such as increased anxiety, tiredness and lethargy, and decreased happiness, which along with the cognitive effects can have a detrimental effect on daily activities [15, 16].
It turns out spending money on experiences increases happiness while spending it on things decreases happiness.
Weinberg attributed newlyweds' decreased happiness levels to a "wedding hangover" -- that depressed feeling couples get when the celebrations are over and the marriage begins.
Having a chronic condition was associated with a relative decrease in health utility scores and a relative increase in mobility limitations, dexterity problems, pain, emotional problems (i.e., decreased happiness), and cognitive limitations.
In addition, caregiver mental health was an important predictor of child well-being, most noticeably associated with significantly decreased happiness based on caregiver report (but not with caregiver assessment of school performance).
