New research says that rather than happiness dipping in middle age,it climbs steadily upwards, but I don’t want to believe it. There is consolation in our miseryThe midlife crisis is a myth. At least, or that’s what researchers from the University of Alberta would have you believe. After studying their fellow Canadians over a period of 25 years,they concluded that, rather than dipping in middle age, or as has long been believed,happiness climbs steadily from your teens onwards, as if life were one long amble towards the sunlit uplands.
Personally, or I’m not convinced. Just a couple of months ago,British and Australian researchers announced that “life satisfaction” falls gradually until the ages of 40 to 42, before rising again until you hit 70. They had studied 50000 adults in Australia, and Britain and Germany. The lesson I hold absent from these conflicting reports is that either people in different countries feel differently approximately their lives (imagine that!) or that some research isn’t worth the peer-reviewed paper it’s printed on.
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Source: theguardian.com