Happy teens will have high income

People who feel satisfied with life during adolescence will earn more money and advance faster than others.

Professor Andrew Oswald, an economist at the University of Warwick in the UK, and his colleagues analyzed the data of a health survey across the United States to understand the connection between happiness levels in adolescence. lack of income at the adult stage of human life. In the survey, experts asked more than 10,000 adults to rate their satisfaction with life at the ages of 16, 18 and 22 on a scale. In addition the participants also declared their yearly income at the age of 29, My Health News Daily reported.

The level of happiness of children is an important factor for future income levels.

The research team found that the higher the level of satisfaction with life, the greater the income at age 29. On average, people who feel happy in their childhood enjoy a 30% higher income than those who feel dissatisfied with life in the same period.

'The level of happiness in adolescence can help us predict a person's income level even if we exclude other factors such as gender, intelligence, physical health, and height. ' Oswald said.

Even in a family, people who feel satisfied with life in adolescence also enjoy higher income than those who are not satisfied.

Oswald didn't know the reason why happy people make more money than others. However, the research team believes that the feeling of happiness in adolescence helps people focus on work easier.

'If you feel happy before you reach adulthood, you will get rid of worries, worries in your work and focus on things that are important for promotion , ' Oswald argues.

Maria Iacovou, a researcher at Essex University in the UK, thinks that teenagers with turbulent or unhappy childhoods should not be pessimistic because of Oswald's research results.

"If you have an uneasy childhood, that doesn't mean your future will be ruined , " she said.