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Sleep your way to happiness
Author: Jonathan Warren
Sleep could provide a happiness boost to individuals, especially those in their thirties and forties who are most in need of bed rest, according to a leading psychologist.
Dr Anthony Grant, director of the coaching psychology unit at the University of Sydney and face of TV show Making Australia Happy, has found that “sleep deprivation has a huge impact on our happiness levels”, The Sydney Morning Herald (October 11th) has revealed.
The Happily Healthy Project – an online survey designed to calculate the happiness score of Australians depending on a range of factors such as sleep – showed that people in the 35 to 44 age bracket were the least content and most tired. This was put down to factors such as the raising of young children and burning the candle at both ends with an active social life and solid career.
However, Dr Grant went on to say that happiness may in fact come with age and said: “When you get to 60, hopefully the kids have left home, hopefully you’ve got fairly stable in your financial issues and you finally get some peace, get to enjoy your hobbies – and you get some sleep.”
