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Toss out your usual list of New Year’s resolutions and set goals that involve giving to others to be happier in 2021, suggest experts.<\/p>\n
Their study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that happiness increases as your focus of concern and care gets wider.<\/p>\n
“We found that when people are focused on giving to others they experience deeper satisfaction than when their goals are more self-oriented,” said Richard Ryan, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Rochester in the US.<\/p>\n
“For example, experiments show that doing something benevolent for others, even when you will never meet the beneficiary, increases your positive mood and energy,” said Ryan.<\/p>\n
Together with Edward Deci, also a University of Rochester Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Ryan is the co-founder of the self-determination theory (SDT), a broad framework for the study of human motivation and personality.<\/p>\n
Developed by the duo over nearly 40 years, the theory has become one of the most widely accepted frameworks of human motivation in contemporary behavioural science.<\/p>\n
Its starting point is the idea that all humans have the natural – or intrinsic – tendency to behave in effective and healthful ways.<\/p>\n
According to Ryan, acts of willingly helping others satisfy all three of the basic psychological needs identified in SDT research: the needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.<\/p>\n
Autonomy in this context means that you can engage in activities in which you feel true volition and find personal value.<\/p>\n
Competence means feeling effective and having a sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n
Finally, relatedness means working with and feeling connected to others.<\/p>\n
“If you want to make a New Year’s resolution that really makes you happy, think about the ways in which you can contribute to the world,” said Ryan.<\/p>\n
“The research shows it’s not just good for the world but also really good for you.” (IANS)<\/p>\n
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