Question

How Vacations Affect Your Happiness
Vacations are a chance to take a break from work, see the world and enjoy time with family. This is important. However, do they make
you happier?
Researchers from the Netherlands set out to measure the effect that vacations have on overall happiness and how long it
lasts. They studied happiness levels among 1,530 Dutch adults, 974 of whom took a vacation during the 32-week study period.
The study, published in the journal
Applied Research in Quality of Life, showed that the largest boost in happiness comes from the
simple act of planning a vacation. In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation boosted happiness for eight weeks.
After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people. How much stress or relaxation a traveler
experienced on the trip appeared to influence post-vacation happiness. There was no post-trip happiness benefit for travelers who said
the vacation was "neutral" or stressful."
Surprisingly, even those travelers who described the trip as "relaxing" showed no additional jump in happiness after the trip. "They
were no happier than people who had not been on holiday," said the lead author, Jeroen Nawijn, tourism research lecturer at Breda
University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands,
The only vacationers who experienced an increase in happiness after the trip were those who reported feeling
"very relaxed"
on their
vacation. Among those people, the vacation happiness effect lasted for just two weeks after the trip before returning to baseline levels.
"Vacations do make people
happy," Mr. Nawijn said. "But we found people who are anticipating holiday trips show signs of increased
happiness, and afterward there is hardly an effect."
One-reason vacations don't boost happiness after
the trip may have to do with the stress of returning to work. In addition, for some
travelers, the holiday itself was stressful.
"In comments from people, the thing they mentioned most referred to disagreements with a travel partner or being ill," Mr. Nawijn
said,

For some travelers, vacations:
a) Was stressful
b) Was terrible
c) Was nice
d) Was good​

Answer 1

Resposta:

Resposta A

Explicação:

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