15,500 sign up to online happiness course
Updated / Friday, 12 Mar 2021
10:24
A free online course to help the public find happiness during the pandemic has attracted 15,500 people. The Science of Health and Happiness is a 10-week course run by the Royal College of Surgeons University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Organisers said the large interest in the course reflects a need for people to find happiness after enduring over a year of negative impacts from the pandemic.
Professor Ciaran O’Boyle, Director of the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, said the pandemic is having such an impact on everybody. We are very interested in the idea that while adversity is difficult when we are going through it, adversity can also make us stronger.
Unhappiness levels at highest ever level in Ireland due to pandemic as life satisfaction low, study shows
Updated: 26 Feb 2021, 19:49
UNHAPPINESS levels are at their highest-ever level recorded here due to the pandemic, new figures released today show.
The ‘Covid 19: One Year On’ study from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) found 42 per cent of people across the state rate their overall life satisfaction as low.
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Women have been harder hit than men, with 17 per cent of females saying they felt lonely ‘All or Most of the time’ compared to 9.2 per cent of male respondents.