Adapting to a situation tends to decrease happiness, she said, and bucking social norms tends to slow the adaptation process.
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].
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).
For instance, even when men and women have equivalent physiological responses to the same stressful situation (no differences in heart rate or plasma cortisol), women self-report higher irritability and fear as well as decreased happiness compared to men [ 23].
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.
One could be that there's a particularly gloomy generation moving through life, decreasing the happiness of each age group as they pass through it.
