The Origins of Happiness

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6 Health of Mind and Body Of all the things that I have lost, I miss my mind the most. — Mark Twain “What do you most desire in ...

Chapter 6 90 Causes of Misery Since only a minority of us are sick at any one time, the dis- tribution of health is not symmetri ...

Health of Mind and Body Physical illness is measured in Britain and the United States by the number of physical illnesses or con ...

Chapter 6 Table 6.1. How would the percentage in misery fall if each problem could be eliminated on its own? α- coefficient× Pre ...

Health of Mind and Body no mental illness, all else constant, the percentage of the population in misery would be reduced by 2.2 ...

Chapter 6 Health and Life- Satisfaction Does the picture change if, instead of focusing on misery, we analyze everything in term ...

Health of Mind and Body The relationships discussed so far are all cross- sectional. They thus include the effect of ongoing dif ...

Chapter 6 underestimate by health- care planners of the suffering caused by mental illness— an underestimate reflected in the Br ...

Health of Mind and Body the figure— the magnitudes here are not β- statistics but the ab- solute impact of each variable on life ...

Chapter 6 External Effects of Ill Health However, when thinking about the importance of illness, we also have to look at its imp ...

Health of Mind and Body the BHPS in Figure 6.3 reveal a similar pattern (though the scales of physical and mental health here ar ...

Chapter 6 does the illness of a partner affect the other partner? As the table shows, you feel worse when your partner is ill, f ...

Health of Mind and Body mainly true of mental illness. It is widely believed that men- tal illness is harder to adapt to than ph ...

Chapter 6 negative.^24 More recently, the data from the English Longi- tudinal Study of Aging provide another striking example. ...

Health of Mind and Body illnesses they already had, people in the least happy quarter were three times more likely to die in the ...

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7 Crime Stephen J. Machin If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of intelligence is its father. — Jean de la Bruyère (1688) Cri ...

Chapter 7 had ever been convicted of an offence by the age of 30.^3 We can then estimate what factors affect the probability of ...

Crime The United States Things are remarkably similar in the United States, except that there is more crime in the United States ...