Very interesting read.

New Method Helps Map Women's Happiness

Having sex is the high point of most women's' days, while commuting is the low point. And most women like being with their kids less than they will admit, according to a study published on Thursday.

While the results may not appear startling, the method used to assess mood represents a new and more accurate way of figuring out how happy people are, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

They propose that their tool could be used to plan social policy.

"Current measures of well-being and quality of life need to be significantly improved," said Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the study....

For the study, David Schkade of the University of California San Diego and colleagues at Princeton University, University of Michigan and elsewhere studied more than 900 women....

The new method, called the Day Reconstruction Method, involves breaking the day into a sequence of episodes....

December 4, 2004 in Science | Permalink

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