Study Finds People's , Happiness Not Impacted , By COVID Pandemic.<br />A new study suggests that <br />the COVID-19 pandemic has not <br />impacted people's overall happiness. .<br />'The Guardian' reports that these conclusions were reached <br />despite putting entire nations on lockdown, triggering <br />an economic downturn and claiming 6.7 million lives.<br />The study, through over 100,000 interviews <br />across 137 countries, found that overall <br />benevolence rose in all global regions. .<br />Similarly, when asked to rate their lives on <br />a scale of one to ten, people responded with <br />scores equally as high as before the pandemic.<br />The undoubted pains were offset <br />by increases in the extent to which <br />respondents had been able to discover <br />and share the capacity to care <br />for each other in difficult times, 10th World Happiness Report, via 'The Guardian'.<br />The World Happiness Report was compiled by <br />Richard Layard, a London School of Economics professor, <br />and Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University.<br />People ended up discovering their<br />neighbors. People were checking in <br />more regularly [with other generations] <br />so that sense of isolation was <br />not as much as you would expect … , John Helliwell, Professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and co-editor, via 'The Guardian'.<br />Even during these difficult years, <br />positive emotions have remained <br />twice as prevalent as negative ones, <br />and feelings of positive social support <br />twice as strong as those of loneliness, John Helliwell, Professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and co-editor, via 'The Guardian'.<br />According to the report, the largest happiness gaps <br />were found to be in the African countries of Liberia, <br />the Republic of the Congo and Mozambique.<br />We need to turn this wisdom into <br />practical results to achieve more <br />peace, prosperity, trust, civility – <br />and yes, happiness – in our societies, Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at Columbia University and co-author, via 'The Guardian'
