Intelligence and happiness What is your relationship?

It has always been believed that the less intelligent a person is, so there is more happiness, however, new studies indicate that there is a relationship between intelligence and happiness.

According to the investigations carried out at the University College London, People with a low intellectual coefficient have to be less happy, In addition to having a poor health state, compared to those who have a high coefficient.

This has led researchers to relate intelligence to happiness, independently.

Intelligence and happiness

Happiness can be defined as an emotional state in which the person experiences well -being and realization; In addition, it is related to the fulfillment of desires, purposes and goals of self -realization, so it is a durable state that can be subjective, since the same things do not make everyone happy, that is, that it is a relative state.

However, Dra. Angela Hassiotis, began a study on intelligence and happiness, and arranged, together with her team, to identify what the relationship between the IC and happiness is, in addition to investigating her clinical and social factors, they could influence said link and , if so, to what extent.

To do this, the researchers gathered and analyzed the data of the adult psychiatry survey in England, in 2007. At that time, the participants were approximately 16 and 17 years old, and still lived in their homes.

The information included was that of almost seven thousand people and happiness was classified following a three -point validated scale. As for verbal IC, this was measured using the national adult reading test.

Yes there is a relationship between happiness and intelligence

The data that the researchers found confirm that there is a relationship between intelligence and happiness.

Thus, people with low, between 70 and 99, showed low levels of happiness, while those who had higher coefficients, between 120 and 129 evidenced more notorious signs of happiness.

However, it should be noted that There are also other factors that can influence happiness, such as health, income level, daily activities, Neurotic symptoms, among others, which can affect up to 50 % in the relationship of intelligence with happiness.

This led the team to argue that:

“Those with bass ci are less happy than people with the greatest ci. Interventions that are directed to modifiable variables such as salary (by improving education and employment opportunities) and neurotic symptoms (by improving the diagnosis of health problems) can improve levels of happiness in groups with lower ICs ".

So that, Those who are in a low range of IC have more tendency to receive minor wages and a greater incidence to suffer from mental disorders and suicidal behaviors.

Dra. Hassiotis indicates that these findings are very relevant, then, people with a low CI are less happy because they live a situation of disadvantage at the economic and social level, so they are less likely to live with well -being, in addition to their health is more poor and report a greater number of symptoms of psychological disorders.

As for the study co-investigator, Dra. AFIA, she concludes that interventions are required to help reduce inequalities at the social level, such as introducing improvements in public education, reducing the unemployment number, giving promotion and practice to primary health care, among others.

In spite.

For example, according to José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), happiness "is the life dedicated to occupations for which each man has unique vocation" and, thus, by continuing to investigate, there are many who have an opinion on what It is happiness and what produces it.

The concept of intelligence, what is and how has evolved

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