Sentence examples for reported happiness from inspiring English sources

Facebook is actually depressing, the authors suggest, because everyone else is presenting such happy, fun existences, and individuals viewing all that reported happiness feel more miserable by comparison.

It goes a long way toward determining the quality of people's lives and their reported happiness.

TO find an answer, Mr. Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan, another M.I.T. economist, studied surveys of Americans' and Canadians' reported happiness over the last 30 years.

He notes that reported happiness among black Americans has risen over the same time period and that they would seem to be in a similar situation as women.

According to many studies, increases in self-esteem have only one reliable effect: they increase people's reported happiness as they go on behaving the same way they did before).

One study of 100,000 individuals in 12 countries found strong consistent patterns across countries: * It found reported happiness to be highest among the highly educated, women, high-income earners, the young and old (not the middle-aged), married, self-employed and retired.

The research supports an earlier study that found that "higher earnings of neighbors were associated with lower level of self-reported happiness," the New York Times reports.

The scales also correlate as expected with happiness ratings made about respondents by others and with other non-self-report data, e.g. Weinstein (1982) found that self-reported happiness was strongly related to an unobtrusive measure of smiling and laughing in an interview.

According to social-science research, self-reported happiness traditionally correlates roughly with income inequality: in years when inequality lessens, people report greater life satisfaction.

But what does self-reported happiness really measure?

And the data on self-reported happiness are inconclusive.