Being happy is important to achieve emotional well-being and preserve mental health. This study helps to better understand this feeling.
The happiness It is one of the most positive emotions, together with the happiness. According to various studies, being happy has many benefits, both for the mental health As for physics, for this reason, experts try to better understand what makes people achieve happiness.
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, United States, decided to investigate the relationship between free time and people’s happiness to clarify some assumptions about this aspect. He study was published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
How does free time affect people’s happiness?
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The research titled Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-Being (Having too little or too much time is related to subjective well-being), was carried out based on detailed monitoring for 24 hours of more than 35 thousand American citizens. In this way, the scholars were able to determine the activities they carried out during the day, how much leisure they had and the repercussions on their mood.
He leisure It is necessary to avoid collapse in the work week, remove yourself from situations that provoke negative feelings such as stress and anxiety, and ensure rest of the body and brain. But also, when experiencing long periods of time without performing a productive activity, can trigger a feeling of emotional discomfort, such as anxiety or even depression. Therefore, it is important find a balance.
How many hours of free time per day are recommended, according to experts
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From the results of the study, the researchers concluded that the ideal thing for people would be to maintain a daily average of between two and three hours free. According to experts, this amount of time is more than enough to disconnect the brain from the responsibilities of the day and feel the necessary pleasure without feeling overwhelmed or unmotivated by the activity. absence of productivity.
He welfare of people began to decrease by overcoming the 5 hours of leisure, according to the data obtained. “Sometimes, having a lot of free time is even related to lower subjective well-being, due to lack of productivity,” he warned. Marissa Sharifthe lead author of the study and Marketing expert Wharton School from the University of Pennsylvania.
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