"The Healthy Geezer" answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column.
Question: How can we get saddest as we age?
Answer: It seems that the opposite is true. There is much evidence as we age we pleased.
A phone Gallup 340,000 people in the United States showed that happiness comes with age. However, the survey did not reveal the cause of this phenomenon.
Dr. Arthur A. Stone, professor of psychology at the University of Stony Brook, was the lead author of a study based on the Gallup survey. There is speculation on the causes of happiness.
"It could be that there are environmental changes, or it could be psychological changes about the way we see the world, or it could even be biological - for chemistry, for example, brain or endocrine changes," said Dr. Peter New York Times in 2010.
The telephone survey included people between 18 and 85. The survey showed that people start at age 18 feeling pretty good. However, they feel worse and worse until they reach 50.
But after that point, people start getting happier as they age. By the time they are 85, they are even more satisfied with themselves than they were 18.
Why older people happier? I picked up some theories. Older people are happier because they have:
A deeper appreciation of the value of life
A sense of accomplishment"happy poems"
A greater ability to understand and manage the vicissitudes of life
Less aspirations and expectations of themselves
The ability to live in the present and not worry about the future
The wisdom to know, you can not please everyone all the time
The desire to see the most positive situations
A study by the University of Chicago also found that happiness increases with age. The researchers asked a representative sample of Americans, as they were happy. The question was administered to a sample population of interviews ranging from 1500 to 3000 on the face.
Chicago researchers have theorized that older people are happier because with age comes positive psychosocial traits such as self-integration and self-esteem; these signs of maturity could contribute to a better sense of well being.
"Older people are more able to recognize what is going to bother them, and better able to negotiate their environment," said Susan Turk Charles, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.
One study focused on the positive and negative emotions of people over 23, and participants by age group compared. The researchers found that the most frequently reported negative emotions adolescents, while octogenarians seemed to feel less negative."happy poems"
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