
The surveys asked five questions each about positive and negative experiences. Helliwell did not participate in collecting the data for the Gallup report. The Gallup report, which is a good source of comparative emotional data around the world, is important because it offers “the chance to broaden our conversations and attention, and enabling a deeper understanding of what helps to make lives better,” said John Helliwell, professor emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and an editor of the World Happiness Report, a publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. “It’s a little early for a lot of countries and leaders and policymakers and businesses and organizations to really relax because those negative experiences are still at their highest level that we’ve ever measured,” Ray said.

“As people started to emerge from the grips of pandemic … it’s a little bit of a release of that pressure valve,” Ray said.Īnd while there are victories in the increase of positive experiences, it is not necessarily time for celebration, she added. There isn’t direct evidence as to why the positive experiences were higher in 2022, but one could speculate it was a bit of a sigh of relief, she added. “There wasn’t any upward movement, which is a positive sign, but it also stayed at its highest level that we we’ve ever measured,” Ray said.

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