Sentence examples for reducing happiness from inspiring English sources
These results are consistent with Watkins' (2008, 2010) level of identification dysregulation hypothesis, which proposes that depressed individuals are compromised in their ability to regulate their level of goal/action identification in response to situational demands such that they show a reduced shift towards more concrete representations in response to increasing sadness or reducing happiness.
However, it is often argued that urban living comes at the expense of reducing happiness.
As shown in Figure 1, and consistent with predictions, the significant interaction indicates that the extent to which participants use more concrete identification with reducing happiness was moderated by depression status.
Given that previous studies have not distinguished between the effects of increasing sadness versus reducing happiness in determining change in level of action identification, we separately analysed both ratings of sadness and happiness to explore whether the change in level of identification was associated with change in sadness and/or change in happiness.
The present analyses were largely exploratory in nature; however, we broadly hypothesised that chronic illnesses would be associated with reduced general QOL, reduced happiness and elevated levels of depressed mood.
Inequality reduces happiness — every social scientist has a strong presumption of this".
While the findings seem surprising, experts say there are clear reasons why more siblings could reduce happiness.
(Indeed, according to Graham, rapid economic expansion is just as likely to reduce happiness as the reverse, a situation that she refers to as "the paradox of unhappy growth").
For example, a government that limits personal freedom is likely to see low wealth and reduced happiness; high unemployment contributes to both lower wealth and long term unhappiness; the increase in global media communications (especially via the internet) allows the poor to compare themselves unfavourably to the rich.
Ratso Rizzo disagrees, saying she absolutely believes that motherhood reduces happiness.
Still, Stoics do not reduce happiness to virtue, as though 'happiness' is just a name for being perfectly just, courageous, and moderate.
