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"For Lots of People, Getting Older Means Getting Happier"

"대부분의 사람들은 나이가 들 수록 더 행복해진다"

 

 This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
이 기사는 VOA 스페셜 영어 건강 기사입니다.

 


Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old. The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States.

나이를 먹는다는 소리는 그다지 좋은 소리는 아니다. 하지만 최근 연구 결과에 따르면 나이가 드는 것에 대한 걱정을 하고 있는 사람들에게 희소식을 안겨주었다. 연구원들은 50세가 되면 그 이후에는 전보다 덜 걱정하고 더 행복하다는 결론을 내렸다. 사실 85세의 노인들은 그들이 18년 전보다 훨씬 더 행복한 삶을 살고 있다고 한다. 이 결과는 미국성인 34만 명을 대상으로 한 실험에서 나온 것이다.

 


The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
갤롭 리서치는 2008년 전화로 그들에게 질문을 했다. 그 당시 사람들은 18세에서 85세 사이였다. 질문자들은 행복감이나 슬픔, 걱정 같은 감정에 대한 질문을 했다. 또한 정신과 감정에 대한 스트레스에 관해서도 질문했다. 뉴욕의 스토니 브룩 대학 정신 의학과 행동 과학부의 아서 스톤 박사가 이 연구의 저자다. 그의 팀은 22세에서 25세 성인들에게서 스트레스 수치가 높게 나타났다고 한다. 하지만 50세 이후 이러한 스트레스 지수가 급격히 떨어진다.

 

Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men. The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
행복수치는 가장 젊은 성인들과 70대 초반 성인들이 가장 높았다. 부정적인 감정을 적게 느낀다고 응답한 사람들은 70대와 80대들이다. 이 연구는 또한 남성과 여성이 나이가 먹으면서 비슷한 감정 양상을 보인다고 말한다. 하지만 전 연령에서 여성이 남성보다 슬픔이나 스트레스, 걱정하는 정도가 더 많이 나타남을 보였다. 이런 발견들은 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences에 실렸다.

 

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences. Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry. The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
연구원들은 왜 나이를 먹을수록 행복감을 더 느끼게 되는지에 대한 원인은 모른다고 말한다. 아마도 나이를 먹으면서 그들이 가진 것에 감사하는 정도가 커지고 자신의 감정을 보다 잘 통제하는데 있다는 하나의 이론이 있다. 또한 그들은 나쁜 경험에 대해 생각하는 시간이 적기도 하다. 스톤 교수는 감정양상이 어떻게 세상을 보는지에 대한 변화와 연관되거나 또는 심지어 뇌 속의 화학물질이 변할 수도 있다고 말한다. 연구원들은 또한 아이를 갖거나, 실업자가 되고, 또 솔로가 되는 것과 같은 경험이 영향을 미칠 수 있는지에 관한 가능성을 생각했다. 하지만 그런 것들이 나이와 관련해서 행복의 정도와 잘 사는 것에 영향을 미치지 않는 다는 것을 발견했다. 

 

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Brianna Blake. Tell us what you think about the relationship between happiness and age. You can post comments on our website, voaspecialenglish.com, or on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. I'm Barbara Klein.
지금까지 Brianna Blake 기자의 VOA 스페셜 영어 건강 기사였습니다. 행복과 연령 사이에 어떠한 관계가 있는지 당신의 생각을 말해주세요. voaspecialenglish.com이나 VOA Learning English의 페이스 북, 트위터에도 의견을 남기실 수 있습니다. 저는 Barbara Klein이었습니다.

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