Beatton, Tony; Frijters, Paul - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2012
of life changes for each age. This single-variable Stress Index is able to explain over 80% of the variation in happiness … over time. Unexpectedly, aggregate ‘positive stress’ (such as marriage rates by age or levels of job promotion) have … greater negative effects on aggregate life satisfaction than negative stress (such as negative financial events or deaths of …