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Happiness
Making love is the most enjoyable human activity, a study
has found.
Researchers used text messaging to build up a map of what
activities people routinely rated as bringing the most and least happiness to
their daily lives and found that sex ranked first in all three categories
measured in the survey: Pleasure, meaning and engagement.
Drinking alcohol or partying came second in terms of
pleasure but only 10th in terms of meaning, the Daily Mail reported.
Using Facebook and doing housework both ranked low on the
happiness scale, according to the study compiled by Carsten Grimm from the
University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Feeling sick was lowest rated in terms of pleasure, it
revealed.
Grimm used mobile-phone text-messaging to collect data on
what people did during the day and how they felt about it, a technique called
'experience sampling'.
“Those who tend to be high on all three orientations to
happiness not only score high on life satisfaction, they also tend to have
higher experiences of pleasure, meaning, engagement and happiness in their
daily lives. This means that being able to seek happiness in different ways may
enrich your everyday experience and increase your overall well-being,” he said.
Top-ranked activities according to the survey
1: Sex
2: Drinking alcohol
3: Volunteering
4: Meditating/religion
5: Caring for children
6: Listening to music
7: Socialising
8: Hobbies
9: Shopping
10: Gaming
Worst-ranked activities ar
1: Recovering from sicknes
2: Facebook
3: Housework
4: Studying
5: Texting
6: Going to lecture
7: Paid work
8: Commuting
9: Computer work
10: Washing
