I think that the happiness of each person is in his own hands. We must learn to enjoy even the smallest things and successes, as well as happily learn from any failure. However, I personally know this, but I do not know how to do it yet. I am working on it and I think it will make me happier.

Old age is a gift from God, since many do not have this opportunity. I want to live at a time when my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be born and grow up, because they are me, this is my continuation

Midlife crisis; that’s the age of 40s in which it is common to predict high levels of unhappiness among general population worldwide.

At the age of immobility.

Hi it depends to your field of research, your team, lab facilities

at the age of 30-40 where we have to balance our life professionally as well as personal...

I think I will say Adult age

It depends on one's condition of life. But i think usually is around 40 years of age.

People are happier when they are at the dependent age range i.e. 0-25 years, at this period in everyone life, the basic necessities of life are being provided for by their parents or guidances.

As long as there is health, there is happiness. Therefore, every age has a different beauty, if you are healthy.

Aging is a mercy and divine gift of our beloved Creator. So, we must not be unhappy on how much longer it is particularly decreed for me. But we should always pray to Al-Mighty so that our age does not appear to someone as a liability than an asset and comfort.

I think that the happiness of each person is in his own hands. We must learn to enjoy even the smallest things and successes, as well as happily learn from any failure. However, I personally know this, but I do not know how to do it yet. I am working on it and I think it will make me happier.

Old age is a gift from God, since many do not have this opportunity. I want to live at a time when my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be born and grow up, because they are me, this is my continuation

Every age has different expectations and different levels of satisfaction. I think it will be very difficult to compare.

Thank you all for your inputs.

Scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom who studied happiness and depression levels in 80 countries, have pinpointed 44 as the most unhappy year of life. But they say we shouldn't get too down about it, as many 70-year-olds are as happy and healthy as young adults. https://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2150138.htm

So 47.2 is the global age of maximum unhappiness? It strikes a bit later – at 48.2 – in the developing world, but the pattern remains the same. “The curve’s trajectory holds true in countries where the median wage is high and where it is not, and where people tend to live longer and where they don’t,” writes Blanchflower.

Does this mean that midlife misery is genetic? It could well be that we are hardwired for it. A 2012 study of chimpanzees and orangutans found that apes also have a midlife happiness low-point, at about the age of 30. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2020/jan/14/are-you-really-at-your-most-miserable-at-47-years-old

After retirement in most of the cases

Yes Iam agree with dr awuchi ...I have seen a lot of peoples unhappy between 47 and 50

According to a recent study, it’s our late 40s. Our happiness, it seems, tends to decrease towards this midlife nadir, before steadily increasing through our 50s and 60s. For developing countries, happiness was lowest at 48.2 years old; in developed countries it was 47.2. https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/late-40s-is-this-the-most-miserable-time-of-our-lives/

I'm totally agree with the realistic answer of Dr Viola Vambol.

Regards

Very interesting discussion..I had no clue that happiness and unhappiness has any association with the age..I believe being happy or unhappy depends upon our coping mechanisms and reactions towards situations.

I don't know what age group is the most unhappiest but our childhood is the most happiest phase..

Many thanks for your kind sharing..cheers

Increase in age comes with responsibility, responsibility comes with stress. Above 30 years we start feeling it. Happiness depends on a person not mainly age.

I think Dr Agnishwar Girigoswami is right, happiness and sorrow depends upon our experiences, the age we have good experiences we feel more content. Study says people around the world experience an inverted, U-shaped "happiness curve. Starting at age 18, your happiness level begins to decrease, reaching peak unhappiness at 47.2 in developed countries and 48.2 in developing countries.

Dear Dr. Sarsak!

You spotted a key point I think the central issue here is to evaluate the impact of COVID-19:

1) Norbury, A., Liu, S.H., Campaña-Montes, J.J. et al. Social media and smartphone app use predicts maintenance of physical activity during Covid-19 enforced isolation in psychiatric outpatients. Mol Psychiatry (2020) Open Access:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-00963-5

2) A case-study: Paul Willner et al. (2020).Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the mental health of carers of people with intellectual disabilities, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Volume 33, Issue 6, November 2020, Open Access:

Article Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of care...

3) Ebru Şahan et al. (2020). Can we predict who will be more anxious and depressed in the COVID-19 ward?, Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volume 140, January 2021, Citation: "We evaluated Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale scores and patient related factors. Women, age > 50, had a psychiatric disorder, used NSAIDs were more anxious and depressed. Scores were lower when family members tested positive for Coronavirus stayed together." Open Access:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399920308643

I think this problem is in this case very much dependent on the case and context (country. region) targeted.

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

To avoid unhappiness, someone has to be balanced and rational rather than be highly emotional/hormonal during youth.

I agree with Dr Viola Vambol, that you learn throughout your life; it is in your own hands. I seem to remember being unhappy when I was a child, from time to time, but since adulthood, looking back, I remember being happy, and that may have been because it was more in my own hands. I'm pleased with how things went.

To quote Wikipedia, the phrase 'Rosy retrospection: the tendency to view past events in a positive (often unrealistic) light.' springs to mind. You look back and see things through 'Rose-tinted glasses'.

Now I'm retired, I'm very happy. Supposedly more time (but I'm always busy). However, when I was working, I would see retired people who warned me grimly 'don't get old!' So happiness in retirement isn't universal. A happy retired friend went through an unhappy phase when she was widowed, but I think she's less despondent now, and climbing up the other side from the 'deep trough' she went through.

I don't know much about clinical depression, but I seem to remember that it can be because of a reaction to something negative happening in life.

Not my topic but I seen the question on the home page and it intrigued me. I believe everyone's goal in life should be to strive to be content.

Some of the research people have added is interesting especially Agnishwar Girigoswami the U shape happiness/ lifecycle is interesting. Although, as many people have suggested there are alot of other factors. I've listed a few I could think of below:

Cultural

Country

Health - physical / metal

Sex - Male / Female / Other

Children and the various ages people have them

Illness personally and in families

Bereavements

Social standing

Wealth

Poverty

Working environments

Relationships

Environment

Dwellings

Force Majeure - Pandemics / Natural Disasters

There are probably many more but these are the variables that I can think of that have a bearing on happiness throughout your life. Many of which can impact your life at any age.

Interesting topic

Regards

Martin

Happiness is beyond our reach. It does not need a passport or money and so is unhappiness. It is feeling that gets everybody: poor or rich, healthy or ill. But, I thin happiness/unhappiness frequently comes when we are absorbed by our thought or lost in a world of never-never time and never(never land

I don't think that unhappiness is related to certin age.

https://iheartintelligence.com/at-what-age-do-we-feel-most-unhappy/

I do not think there is a relation between being happy or not with the age of a person...... you can be either at any time and at any age. It all depends upon how you feel inside and the aroma or atmosphere surrounding you!

I don’t agree with you, there is no association between happiness & age..happiness is feelings & reactions associate with the person himself,

First of all, it depends on the person himself, but not only on him ... In general, considering happiness as a goal is very strange for me. The process itself is interest to me ("commotion", as my young compatriots say). I see both some people who are unhappy all their lives, under any circumstances, and those who always give the impression of being happy.

It may relate to basic needs and expectations rather than age. Yes, hard question to answer. To answer this question, I am planning a study to see how happiness relates to burnout among teachers. Age is also considered a demographic variable in the study.

Can it be measured by ages? or it depends on life events? my unhappy year was when I was 41, my 5 months baby girl has died.

Happiness something like we want to be.

Yes, I agree with Prof Bela Mosia. I'm so sorry to hear about your baby girl; I realise that it must have been so sad for you, but I hope you're feeling better as time has passed.

After retirement 60 years onward

At the age when someone loses self-control and faith in others around them.

Cheers,

Good question. It should be examined in a research context.

Dr M.K. Tripathi

I read your response with interest; but, speaking for myself, I have been very happy since the age of 60, when I retired from my paid employment. I think it is subjective.