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New crown pneumonia | Hong Kong people's happiness index continues to be low

2020-10-26T03:59:52.461Z


The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues globally, affecting the physical and mental health of the general public. Enterprises commissioned academic institutions to conduct online questionnaire surveys, showing that the happiness index of Hong Kong people continues to be sluggish, with only 6.16 points, which is similar to last year's 6.15 points. In addition, the happiness index of the school group continues to fall, becoming the most unhappy in history.


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Written by: Yuan Shu

2020-10-26 11:49

Last update date: 2020-10-26 11:49

The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues globally, affecting the physical and mental health of the general public.

Enterprises commissioned academic institutions to conduct online questionnaire surveys, showing that the happiness index of Hong Kong people continues to be sluggish, with only 6.16 points, which is similar to last year's 6.15 points. In addition, the happiness index of the school group continues to fall, becoming the most unhappy in history.

Lin Qing, an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pointed out that women are less happy than men during the epidemic, which may be attributed to increased family pressure during the epidemic.

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Hefu Enterprise "Hong Kong Happy D" commissioned the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Nursing to conduct an online questionnaire survey during September. A total of 1,827 valid questionnaires were collected to study the happiness, internal psychological factors, external environmental factors and depression of Hong Kong people Make an analysis.

The result showed that the happiness index remained sluggish, with only 6.16 points, which was similar to the 6.15 points last year, which set a 10-year low.

In previous surveys, "school children" and "elderly" have always been the group with the highest happiness index, but this result shows that the school children's happiness index has become the "most unhappy" group.

Chen Meijuan, co-chairman of Hong Kong Happy D, pointed out that school closures have reduced students' social activities and disrupted the regularity of daily life, and the physical and mental health of students will inevitably be affected.

In addition, the results also show that women are less happy than men in 2020. Unlike the previous situation, Lin Qing, an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pointed out that this may be attributed to the increased family pressure during the epidemic, including the need to spend more time at home to take care of children. .

In addition, as in last year's situation, respondents with a partner were happier than those without a partner.

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