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Depression during midlife crisis: how to find relief when the happiness pattern takes a dip to depression

25 November 2015

A study on happiness by researchers Dr Terence Cheng (University of Adelaide), Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee (Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) and Professor Andrew Oswald (Warwick University), verified a U-shaped happiness pattern among its 50,000 men and women subjects from Britain, Germany and Australia. The findings were based on assessments of the participants throughout their lives. This is the first study to monitor the same set of participants for a full cycle assessment, yet it is not the first study to determine the U-shape happiness pattern among individuals from other countries and from different times.

This article was published online by Food World News on November 25, 2015
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Related publications
Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets, Terence C. Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew J. Oswald, The Economic Journal, October 2015
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12256

Related links
Nick Powdthavee webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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