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(Medical-NewsWire.com, November 29, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- Recent research at the University College London, which has been published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences,” says that kids who are happier during their adolescent years will end up making a higher income when the reach adulthood.
Dr. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from the University’s Political Science branch along with Professor Andrew Oswald for the University of Warwick surveyed 15,000 teenagers and young adults in the United States and the results were resounding.
The study asked the participants to rate their happiness on a scale of one through five and the findings showed specific income results for many age groups. A one point increase in the happiness scale at the age of 22, showed an average of $2,000 increase in salary per year by the age of 29.
The researchers think that the higher levels of income may be due to the fact that happier people are more likely to get a college degree, find a job, and be promoted in a job.
The researchers also found that even when kids are raised in the same household, the happier children will eventually earn more showing that the outside factors including genetic variation, IQ, self-esteem, health, and education may not play as big a role as some people would surmise.
The report says that happiness ultimately leads to higher income because if a person gets a job, they are more likely to get promoted, so it has a compounding effect as a person lives life. Researchers concluded that kids who had a “positive effect,” which is the scientific term for happiness, were much more likely to earn an increased salary than those who rated their happiness lower.
Dr. De Neve concluded: “These findings have important implications for academics, policy makers, and the general public. For academics, they reveal the strong possibility for reverse causality between income and happiness. That is a relationship that most have assumed unidirectional and causal. For policy makers, they highlight the importance of promoting general well-being, not just because happiness is what the general population aspires to, but also for its economic impact.
“Perhaps most importantly, for the general public, and parents in particular, these findings show that the emotional well-being of children and adolescents is key to their future success, yet another reason to ensure we create emotionally healthy home environments.”
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