Psychology|Danish research found explanations for the welfare gap of the city dwellers.
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Studies show that people are more satisfied with their lives in land than in the city.
In Finland, there are more dissatisfied people living in the Helsinki-Uusimaa region than elsewhere in Finland.
In Denmark, the inhabitants of large cities are more dissatisfied with their lives than elsewhere in the country.
The main reason for the welfare gap of the city dwellers is the lack of nature and social ties.
Large The megatrend has long been that people move from the country to cities.
Therefore, it is surprising that, according to numerous studies, people in advanced countries are more satisfied with their lives in the country than in the city. Thus, the landlords seem to have gone from the more open -ended areas to the more grim.
Often Finland, found to be the happiest country in the world, does not differ from other developed countries.
More than ten years ago, Finnish researchers said In the Social Policy Magazinethat there are happier people in the countryside than in cities.
Also fresher research says that there are more dissatisfied people living in the Helsinki-Uusimaa region than elsewhere in Finland.
According to the researchers, this may be explained by the values. In and around the capital, people are more performance and power-oriented than elsewhere.
Research Denmark provides additional explanations for what may be behind regional differences in happiness.
SUPDE researcher Jens Sørensen According to the familiar line, the five largest cities in the country in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odensen, Aalborg and Esbjerg are more dissatisfied with their lives than those living elsewhere in the country.
The difference was reflected in all socio -economic groups.
“No group in a Danish society is happier when living in five major cities,” Sørensen writes in his or her research Applied Research in Quality of Life.
Sørensen found four reasons for the welfare gap of the city dwellers. For the most part, the deficit is due to less nature and weaker social ties between people.
The lack of nature was explained by 37 percent and a more fragile community of 22 % of the differences in happiness.
According to many experimental studies, staying in nature relieves stress and fatigue. Even in the city, green areas are proven to do good for people, but in the countryside, nature is even more abundant.
The city emphasizes anonymous social relationships, while in the countryside people are more familiar to each other.
In addition The lack of pensioners and the greater number of immigrant backgrounds in the cities seemed to be less happiness in the study, albeit less than the previous two factors.
Retirement people are happier, and 14 % of the region of happiness explains 14 % of the rural population.
The ethnic background of the residents and its diversity also influence the issue. Nine percent of the difference in happiness is due to Sørensen’s analysis that more people born outside Denmark live in cities.
From abroad On average, migrants are less satisfied with their lives than the indigenous population.
But according to Sørensen, it is also likely that the ethnic spectrum of the residential area itself weakens the happiness of the residents, including the Danes.
Estimate is based on the US Robert Putnamin A study that confidence in a residential area is reduced by ethnic diversity. According to Putnam, a spectrum can lead to people’s curling itself.