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Aug 3

Early Relationships, Not Brainpower, Key to Adult Happiness (Science Daily)

psychotherapy:

via Science Daily:

Social connection is a more important route to adult well-being than academic ability.

Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, and his colleagues. In contrast, academic achievement appears to have little effect on adult well-being. The exploratory work, looking at the child and adolescent origins of well-being in adulthood, is published online in Springer’s Journal of Happiness Studies