The Secret of Happiness
Happiness Index, 0 (unhappy) - 10 (happy)
The average for 2021 based on 141 countries was 5.57 points. The highest value was in Finland: 7.82 points and the lowest value was in Afghanistan: 2.4 points.
People are getting less happy according to the happy index from 2015 to 2021.
Photo by Marcel Strauß on Unsplash
Photo by Marcel Strauß on Unsplash
Long time being unhappy could cause damage to physical health and may lead to chronic pain and complicate treatment. The Symptoms caused by long time being unhappy include joint pain, limb pain, back pain, gastrointestinal problems, fatigue, psychomotor activity changes, and appetite changes.
It could affect brain function like feeling sadness or emptiness and organ health like increasing the risk of heart attack or constricting blood vessels.
It could also weaken immune system to fight off diseases and increase pain sensitivity
What made you happy in the past 24 hours?
Regarding the same question, a group of researchers collected answers from different participants. To be more specific, the collaboration between the University of Tokyo, MIT, and Recruit Institute of Technology have asked participants of different occupations, gender, and ages to list their 10 happy moments in the past 24 hours / 3 months. The collection of the survey result generated a corpus of 100,000 plus happy moments called HappyDB.
By analyzing the sentence this corpus, we might find the secret of being happy.
Source: https://megagon.ai/happydb-a-happiness-database-of-100000-happy-moments/
Source: https://megagon.ai/happydb-a-happiness-database-of-100000-happy-moments/
The happy moments falls in to categories in a proportion like this. Achievement is the most common category for people to feel happy.
The most common used subjects in sentence.
According to the analysis of the database, we could see that the most common subject in the corpus is I. Therefore, naturally, the focus is on things we did and what happened to us.
The most common types of happy moments for the top 1 subject.
According to the analysis of the database, we could see that the most common used verbs in sentence. The top 1 verb is Gave.
We could see most people feel happy when they receive something from other people.
The most common types of happy moments category distribution for the top 1 verb.
According to the analysis of the database, we could see that the most common used objects in sentence of people's happy moments. The top 1 object is me.
The happy moments categories distribution for the top 1 object
We could see that happy moments lie in small things in life. Something simple could cheer us up! The secret of happiness is to appreciate more Hygge moments of life.
Data Sources:
https://github.com/megagonlabs/HappyDB
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/happiness/North-America/
https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/effects-on-body#what-it-is
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/happiness/#:~:text=The%20average%20for%202021%20based,available%20from%202013%20to%202021.
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