The staff of University College London analyzed the information obtained after conducting a social survey that started back in March 2020. It included daily monitoring of people's well-being. In addition, additional opinion polls were studied. As a result, about one million survey responses were received from 50,000 adult respondents. They answered questions every day: "How happy were you last week?", "How satisfied were you with your life?" and "To what extent did you feel that what you were doing in your life made sense?".
It turned out that the level of life satisfaction is highest on Mondays and Fridays, and most unstable on weekends. As for the time of day, people are in a good mood in the morning. Well-being gradually worsens as soon as the dark time of day approaches. In addition, the mental well-being of the study participants correlated with the season: people were happier in the summer. At the same time, seasonality had no effect on the mood dynamics during the day, Mir24 reports.
"Although these results are intriguing, they should be replicated in other studies that take into account potential errors. If this is confirmed, it may have important practical consequences," the authors of the scientific work noted.
