In comparison to unhappy teenagers, teens who are satisfied and happy with their life, grow to be happy, healthy adults

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In comparison to unhappy teenagers, teens who are satisfied and happy with their life, grow to be happy, healthy adults

It is a quite well known fact that people who are happier during their life are more prone to age better than others. A new study comes to support this idea and it seems that teenagers who are happy have more chances of becoming happy as adults than their unhappier peers.

According to a group of researchers at the Northwestern University, this theory is particularly true and they even analyzed some serious data to get to this conclusion. For their research, the scientists analyzed data coming from 10,147 teenagers who took part in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, since 1994. These teenagers involved in the study had to complete some questionnaires related to their physical and emotional health in 1994, 1996 and 2001. The overall questions the teenagers had to answer were related to their sense of happiness, enjoyment of life, social acceptance, their hope for the future and other such things.

After controlling such things as symptoms of depression, socioeconomic status and other predictors which can influence long-term health, the researchers analyzed the answer these teenagers gave in 1994 and their answers given in 2001. What the researchers discovered was that teenagers who had said they were happy with their life back in 1994 had less risks of developing risky behaviors, such as binge drinking, smoking or other such things, as adults. Furthermore, it seems that those teenagers who were happier in 1994 related that they were in great physical health in 2001. “Our results show that positive well-being during adolescence is significantly associated with reporting excellent health in young adulthood,” study researcher Emma K. Adam said.

The overall conclusion of the study was that most health-intervention problems for teenagers should be more focused on their happiness rather than on anything else. If teenagers managed to live a happier life during the adolescence years, they would grow up to be happier adults, with less physical and emotional problems. Furthermore, many risky behaviors such as smoking and binge drinking would be avoided and their health would increase greatly. Unfortunately, most teenagers nowadays cannot really say that they are truly happy and that is because the daily stress affects them too. If we succeeded in managing our teenagers, by not exposing them to so much stress, they would get to grow up into happy, healthy adults.

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