‘The best doctor is the one you run for and can’t find.’ –Diderot
Other things came out: weekend are good, spending too much time alone is bad, illness is a major drain on your emotional well-being, and so is caring for another adult, or a child (major increases in worry and stress there). College graduates report more stress, and otherwise being a college graduation has no significant effect on your daily happy or sad events. Religion increases positive daily life events, but doesn’t decrease sadness or worry.
Smoking turned out to be a REALLY strong predictor of low emotional well-being, and came out regardless of income or education or anything else. (…)
The negative things in life seem to affect people making less than $75K a lot more than higher incomes. Things like headaches and illness are reported more frequently (but whether or not these are related to stress isn’t determined).
In addition, the pain of some life occurrences, like divorce or chronic disease, is made a LOT worse by being of lower income.
So basically, more money does NOT mean more problems, but at a certain level, less money DOES.
