03 Feb Happiness can survive the blows of financial crisis
Ruut Veenhoven has been studying happiness for over 25 years. The a professor of sociology in Rotterdam and director of the World Database of Happiness – told Metro how the financial crisis will affect happiness:
“Whether the financial crisis has made people less happy, one can only tell when the crisis is over. It’s not likely, because the previous economic crisis didn”t have effects on happiness. In 1989, I did research on how this crisis had a negative effect on the happiness of the average citizen. There was hardly any effect. People were a little more worried about their income, but not less content with their life as a whole. Of course, a crisis is never positive, but apparently mankind is strong enough to cope.”
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