Happiness looks different at every stage of life – and it doesn’t always come from ticking off life milestones. Experts share ...

Scholars have long assumed happiness was like a U-shaped curve − which looks a bit like a smile. Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly described ...

On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as we head into retirement, according to a number of studies. This so-called U-shaped curve ...

Researchers found that young adults in six English-speaking countries are becoming increasingly unhappy, while older adults’ happiness remains stable or improves. The traditional U-shaped curve of ...

Researchers observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all. Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly ...

Having a midlife crisis may sound like a cliche or the plot of a bad movie. But the reality is that there is a widespread theory that your happiness takes a dip in midlife before rebounding at age 50.

Data from more than 200,000 people in 22 countries reveals that young adults ages 18 to 29 are unhappier than they used to be. The happiness curve has been a relatively predictable U-shape for a long ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the midlife crisis as well as its counterpart in large cross-national studies of happiness across the years of adulthood. Psychologists who study personality in middle and ...

Are you short-staffed? Isn’t everyone? Part of the pandemic fallout has been The Great Resignation. CNAs quitting. Nurses walking away from careers. Something has changed in how willing people are to ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the midlife crisis as well as its counterpart in large cross-national studies of happiness across the years of adulthood. Psychologists who study personality in middle and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Many would agree that happiness is difficult to define and ...