Education Doesn't Bring Happiness
By News Staff | April 9th 2015 01:30 PM | Print | E-mail
Getting a good education may not improve your life chances of happiness, according to new mental health research.
The work used existing data from the Health Survey for England (HSE) for 2010 and 2011 in which the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well being Scale (WEMWBS) was administered to 17,030 survey participants across both years. In the paper, they examined socioeconomic factors related to high mental wellbeing, such as level of education and personal finances. Low educational attainment is strongly associated with mental illness but the research team wanted to find out if higher educational attainment is linked with mental well being.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/education_doesnt_bring_happiness-154595
