New research published in The Journal of Positive Psychology has examined the paradoxical effects of valuing happiness. The findings suggest that people .
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Itâs a hot summer morning and Semir Imam is sitting in a Fitzroy cafe counting off on his fingers all the retailers heâs applied to work for. Aldi, Coles and Myer are among them.
He seldom hears back.
âI have applied for a lot of jobs,â says the 22-year-old with a wry smile.
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Victoriaâs youth unemployment rate stood at 14.8 per cent last month â a percentage point higher than the rest of the nation. At its worst in November, one in five of those aged 18 to 24 in Melbourne were without a job, while in the cityâs west that figure soared to 35.4 per cent.
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The Declaration of Independence guaranteed Americans the right to pursue happiness, and we haven’t stopped looking for it since. But despite the college courses, research labs and countless self-help books dedicated to that search, only 33% of Americans actually said they were happy in a 2017 survey.
A new paper may help explain why: We’re trying too hard.
The research, published in the journal
Emotion, found that overemphasizing happiness can make people more likely to obsess over failure and negative emotions when they inevitably do happen, bringing them more stress in the long run.
“Happiness is a good thing, but setting it up as something to be achieved tends to fail,” explains co-author Brock Bastian, a social psychologist at the University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences in Australia, in an email to TIME. “Our work shows that it changes how people respond to their negative emotions and experiences, leading them to feel worse about these and to rumin