Your mental health will thank you.
This ad is displayed using third party content and we do not control its accessibility features.It's no secret that having hobbies offers a benefit to your overall wellbeing—you spend time doing something you enjoy, and there are bonus points if that hobby involves engaging with other people for social connection., hobbies, and the benefits of hobbies around the world, looking at data from over 90,000 people ages 65 and up, from 16 different countries.
The researchers looked at data that spanned from four to eight years across five different longitudinal studies,Based on their analysis, the researchers say that having a hobby is linked with not only fewer depressive symptoms, but also higher levels of happiness, self-reported health, and life satisfaction in people 65 and older. Further, these results were consistent even after adjusting for compounding variables like marriage status, income, and employment.
And, because the results didn't vary much from country to country, the study authors note that,"Given the relative universality of findings, ensuring equality in hobby engagement within and between countries should be a priority for promoting healthy aging." The study's lead author, Karen Mak Ph.D. also notes that hobbies could be protective for aging populations against age-related declines in mental health."Life satisfaction was most strongly linked to hobby engagement," she explains, adding that hobbies may contribute to life satisfaction in our later years"through many mechanisms, including feeling in
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