Mother happy children happy

Scientists of the Institute for social and economic research (ISER) at the University of Essex found that how young people assess the relationships in their families, depends on the level of happiness of their mothers.


The study involved 40 thousands of Britons aged between 10 and 15 years, which experts to begin invited to answer a simple question: "whether they are Satisfied with family relationships? "and then analyzed that could affect their response.




During the experiment it was found that satisfied their families a lot - more than 60% of all participants. But interesting is the fact that happy children in those families where the mother is unhappy, significantly less than in those where the lady of the house happy - 55% versus 73%. The happiness of the father of the family is much less concerned with children and has little impact on their total picture of the world.




University Professor John Ermis (John Ermisch), Dr. Mary Jacob (Maria Iacovou) and Dr. Alexander Skew (Alexandra Skew) found that the happiest children in the UK are those that live with both parents (biological or adoptive), do not have younger brothers and sisters, at least three times a week winalot with the whole family and very rarely argue with their families. Another requirement of contentment - happiness mother in marriage.




Dr. Mary Jacob commented on his own research: "At the present time, when politicians are concerned about the fact that "Britain is broken, these studies show that relationships within the family and the happiness of parents are the keys to the happiness of young people. Contrary to popular belief that children just want to play video games and watch TV, we have proved that they are happy when communicating with parents, brothers and sisters".




It is interesting that, as scientists have found that the presence of older brothers and sisters does not affect the satisfaction teenager from life, but the presence of Junior makes a person feel undervalued, which consequently reduces the level of happiness.




The majority of children (72% of the total number of respondents admitted that they're happy because they argue with their parents less than once a week and can discuss important issues. Study author Maria James concluded: "Research Institute of steel a good start and found a fantastic potential for anyone who is interested in the welfare of children".

Source:

Our psychology

women's web magazine