Study: People Are Happiest In Their 20s

shawbridge
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 20:02:55 +0000

@simba9, as I posted above, there appears to be relative consensus among the studies that people are happy in their 50s and later through 75 or so. There is relative consensus among the studies that they also are happy in their early 20s. The question is whether there is a U-shape (less happy from 20s to 50) or flat. I guess the same comment applies to @bjkmom. @NeoDymium, you are correct. It is health issues that appear to cause the dropoff at 80.