How many friends you have, not how much money you have, predicts how happy you're likely to be right after you retire. That's one of the findings from a University of Michigan study suggesting that as baby boomers age, they should probably pay as much attention to their social lives as their financial portfolios.
The study, conducted by a University of Michigan graduate student Alicia Tarnowski and psychologist Toni Antonucci, a senior researcher at the University's Institute for Social Research (ISR), provides evidence that post-retirement changes in life satisfaction are common. It also finds that the size of a recently retired person's social support network, not the size of that person's wallet or state of physical health, is the strongest influence on whether life satisfaction changes for better or worse.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org
No comments:
Post a Comment