Do not be discouraged, stop worrying, do not work so much - usually such advice is given by specialists to improve mental well-being and prolong healthy life years. However, American psychologists from the University of California and Stanford, after a 20-year study came to opposite conclusions.

For a long time watching over 1,5 thousand. Volunteers, scientists found that funny people with a good sense of humor had on average a shorter life expectancy than those who were less prone to jokes and joyful perception of life. Lived the same longer and remained healthy the most emotionally persistent and calm of the subjects.

Scientists suggest that optimists, being more emotionally carefree, tend to take less care of their health and often have a number of behavioral risk factors. According to experts, prudence and endurance have more important advantages for maintaining normal mental and physical health than optimism. As Professor Howard Friedman said, happiness is not the cause of good health. Instead, happiness and health go hand in hand, because they have common roots.

Other survey results included data indicating that marriage can be beneficial to men's health, but does not have much significance for women's health. Married men lived to 70 years and more; Less than a third of divorced men - up to 70 years, and men who were never married, survived those who remarried, and lived much longer divorced, but their life expectancy still remained lower than that of married men. Divorce brings much less harm to the health of women: as noted, divorced women who did not remarry, lived almost as long as married women.

The council especially not to worry about the troubles at work also in fact does not have as much good for the psyche as it was previously thought: it is recorded that people who took the most active part in the affairs of the work collective lived much longer than their calmer peers.

It also turned out that the risk for early death is too early to start school - up to 6 years.

Veterans of hostilities are less likely to have a longer life expectancy, but surprisingly, the psychological stress of war in itself does not necessarily pose a serious threat to health.

People who experience love and care of others have a better sense of well-being, but this does not help them extend their life years. The greatest benefit from social relations is those who help others.

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