Is happiness given genetically? by Sandra Stoklaskova

Love, health and happiness are the most common values, each person would like to achieve. No wonder, everybody would like to love and be loved, because than people are happy. Everyone want to be healthy, because when you are not healthy, you are unhappy. Happy people have positive self-esteem, they like themselves are more optimistic, extroverted, more realistic and perspective. Moreover they really believe that they are in control of their lives. We can say in general that each of us would achieve full happiness in our lives, so happiness seems like the most important life value. Last researches showed that happiness depend on genes, so it looks like you can inherited, as you can not buy it. British and Australian researchers studied more than 1,000 pairs of identical and non-identical twins ranging in age from 25 to 75. It was king of questionnaire, as they asked them a series of questions about their personality and how much they are satisfied with their lives. Thanks to this they found out a quite surprising results that genes control half the personality traits that make people happy. In addition factors such as health, career and relationships are responsible for the rest of our well-being."We found that around half the differences in happiness were genetic. Identical twins in family were very similar in personality and in well-being, and by contrast, the fraternal twins were only half as similar. That strongly implicates genes," said Tim Bates, one of the researchers.So what do you think, would you be happy in your lifetime, concerning happiness of your parents?

by Sandra Stoklaskova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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