Child boomers are the unhappiest technology within the UK

Individuals born between 1946 and 1964 reported decrease happiness than different cohorts in surveys spanning 16 years – in all probability as a result of the scale of the group means extra competitors

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Child boomers have confronted extra competitors from others of their age group

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Child boomers are the least completely satisfied technology within the UK regardless of being some of the well-off, new analysis exhibits. The principle cause for this seems to be their sheer quantity, which has led to competitors for jobs, homes, companions and every part else.

Yiwan Ye and Xiaoling Shu on the College of California, Davis, analysed knowledge from a social survey that's performed each two years within the UK to gauge folks’s happiness and study different social traits. …