youngsters

Young adults are experiencing something unexpected. Their level of satisfaction is dropping even though they live in a time of unparalleled technical development, more connection, and general economic expansion. For many years, psychologists thought that happiness followed a predictable U-shaped curve: we have a "midlife crisis" when we're young and then recover in our later years. However, new evidence suggests that pattern has vanished. Rather, happiness merely rises with age, with elderly persons reporting the highest levels of well-being and young adults the lowest. Young folks' decreasing levels of happiness are not occurring in a vacuum; they are coincident with…