Wednesday, February 27, 2019

How Much Leisure Time Do the Happiest People Have?

Too little, and people tend to get stressed. Too much, and people tend to feel idle.
A research paper released late last year  ...analyzed data covering about 35,000 Americans, found that employed people’s ratings of their satisfaction with life peaked when they had in the neighborhood of two and a half hours of free time a day. For people who didn’t work, the optimal amount was four hours and 45 minutes...The research traced a correlation between free time and life satisfaction, but didn’t provide any definitive insight into what underlies that correlation...
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/02/free-time-life-satisfaction/583171/
 

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