For Lots of People, Getting Older Means Getting Happier

getting older អាយុកាន់តែចាស់        In fact តាមពិតទៅ              finding ការរកឃើញ

happiness សុភមង្គល                        stress ការតានតឹង              least likely ទំនងតិចណាស់នឹង

as នៅពេលដែល                              appeared បោះពុម្ពផ្សាយ    better control of ទប់ទល់ល្អជាង

emotional patterns លំនាំការរំជួលចិត្ត                                         considered ពិចារណាមើល

single នៅលីវ

Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happy with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.  The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. The researcher asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental and emotional stress. Arthur Stone in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York let the study. His team found that levels of stress highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The finding showed that stress level dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiest was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow old. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

The finding appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences. Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry. The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiest and well-being related to age.