After a dip in middle age,
life satisfaction peaked again at about 69 years old.
Not exact matches
A study published in the Harvard Business Review found that work
satisfaction directly corresponds to feelings of gratitude, which
peaks between the ages of 25 and 34 and then again later in
life.
While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and
peak in the 50s, while general
satisfaction with
life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.
Images of distant mountain
peaks suggest that the
satisfaction of reaching the summit will be short -
lived — that the climber's desire for greater heights is unquenchable, much like contemporary society's constant desire for new thrills.