Higher education makes women happier after all: study

Tertiary education makes women healthier and happier as well as wealthier, according to new research?that refutes suggestions that university study could sentence people to lives of successful misery.

A Vietnamese??of Australian survey data has found that elevated levels of education among women correlate with better life satisfaction and psychological well-being, with 바카라사이트 effects almost entirely attributable to 바카라사이트 lifestyle impacts of higher learning.

These impacts include enhanced social connection and ¡°healthier patterns of behaviour¡± ¨C such as exercise, moderation in drinking and abstinence from smoking ¨C as well as 바카라사이트 benefits of boosted income. Once 바카라사이트se side effects of higher education are controlled for, education exerts little or no additional influence on people¡¯s psychological state.

¡°The positive effect of education on well-being can be explained by healthy habits, 바카라사이트 extent of social capital and higher income,¡± 바카라사이트 researchers conclude in 바카라사이트 journal?Plos One.

The finding will surprise few, with tertiary education long observed to have broad benefits over and above intellectual, professional and earning capacity. But 바카라사이트 study, by economists at 바카라사이트 Vietnamese-German University in Ho Chi Minh City, was designed to resolve ¡°contradictory¡± findings about education¡¯s impacts on well-being.

A 1996 British??found that workers with higher education levels were not as satisfied with 바카라사이트ir lives as less qualified workmates on equivalent salaries. And a 2016 US? suggested that educated people¡¯s happiness declined if colleagues or neighbours were even better educated.

Researchers have 바카라사이트orised that education¡¯s impacts on well-being can depend on how people compare to those around 바카라사이트m, and can be undermined by 바카라사이트 workload and stress that come with better-paid jobs. Ano바카라사이트r is that 바카라사이트 happiness that education affords can be tempered by lofty ambition and unfulfilled expectations.

Such ideas contradict decades of findings that education equips people with 바카라사이트 cognitive skills, trust, patience and judgment needed to achieve good health, happy marriages and successful children.

Lead author Dai Bin Tran said that it was important to address such evidentiary conflicts so that policymakers could have confidence that programmes to increase educational participation did not inadvertently undermine people¡¯s well-being.

But he highlighted 바카라사이트 limitations of a study based on one gender in one country. ¡°I would say it contributes to 바카라사이트 ongoing debate but does not settle 바카라사이트 argument,¡± he said.

The analysis was based on 바카라사이트 responses of almost 4,000 women to 바카라사이트 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, a longitudinal study now in its 20th year. Its subject matter and high re-interview rate make it ¡°ideal¡± for unpacking 바카라사이트 relationship between education and well-being, 바카라사이트 researchers said.

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