University College London’s psychology professor Andrew Steptoe and senior research associate Daisy Fancourt analysed a sample of 7,304 UK residents aged 50+ drawn from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Meaning in life: part of the well-being puzzle? New findings recently reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences point towards an answer commonly overlooked: meaning in life. The search for the heart of well-being – that is, a nucleus from which other aspects of well-being and health might flow – has been the focus of decades of research. Despite ample advice from experts, individuals regularly engage in activities that may only have short-term benefit for well-being, or even backfire. The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest.
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