ADDENDUM

SNELL LONELINESS  and  HAPPINESS CURVE

This is a revision of the Life Cycle Loneliness Curve, by Snell and Marsh, 5/9/2012, Psychology and Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal. This source gives a complete description. Created by a special contribution by Ami Rokach in 2000 in his data driven age groups and the same used in our study create a curve that is like an inverted capital N. The publication source for our article is in (as indicate before) Life Cycle Loneliness Curve, Psychology and Education, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 5/9/2012 as noted above. Our desire to change is overwhelmed by the Happiness Curve studies. We recognized that there are a number of variables that can impact the study, but we want to further fill with our change. Freeman and Freeman (6/6/2015) “Is Life’s happiness curve really U-shaped” The Guardian. The Happiness Curve and the Loneliness Curve begin the same. One is generally happy and not lonely during childhood. The teen years both happiness and increased loneliness mean the curve descends. In the middle of our curve indicates that an individual’s loneliness dramatic improves. Here we are wrong. The middle of life there may be more human contact but in impersonal settings, happiness drops to the bottom and loneliness is also greatly experienced. Thus” mid- life crisis”, lost achievement of goals, raising children and related appear to be related to low happiness and high loneliness. It is late in life happiness improves as one sees that in fact much was accomplished and one can be less lonely. Thus both follow perhaps at slightly different ages for groups, but there appears an upward thrust of happiness and a decrease in loneliness. There are numerous variables that impact the “u” curve, but for this stage there appears to be a relationship. The “u” curve prevails for both variables.

Prof. Joel C. Snell

Kirkwood College

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

joelsnell@hotmail.com