Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「America’s happiest people have a few traits in common: They are usually women. They value community and close personal relationships. They tend to believe in God. And they generally are older, often in their retirement years.⁠ ⁠ Those are conclusions from the latest WSJ-NORC poll, which found that a small group of Americans—12%—describe themselves as not just happy, but “very happy.”⁠ ⁠ Americans aren’t a particularly happy bunch. The 12% was the smallest share of “very happy” people ever recorded in NORC’s General Social Survey, dating to 1972. Among all 1,019 adults in the survey, large majorities said they felt pessimistic about the economy and prospects for the next generation.⁠ ⁠ Overwhelmingly, the very happy value strong relationships. Some 67% say marriage is very important to them, regardless of their own marital status, compared with 43% of respondents overall. ⁠ ⁠ Women in the Journal-NORC survey, far more than men, described themselves as very happy. Robert J. Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, said that finding could result from the fact that women live longer than men.⁠ ⁠ Those ages 60 and above accounted for 30% of people in the survey but 44% of the happiest group. The findings make sense to Dr. Waldinger. Research has shown that many people grow happier later in life, he said.⁠ ⁠ Many very happy people say they follow politics and are distressed by the state of civic life, but the group includes both Trump voters and Biden supporters. Neither political party claims a disproportionate share of the very happy.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.」4月29日 1時03分