幸福是一种选择：关于幸福的12个有趣真相

Mental and physical health both have huge impacts on happiness
心理和生理健康都非常影响一个人幸福感

"Happiness depends crucially on personality, and personality is strongly affected by your genetic make-up." One important way in which in genes operate is through mental health.
“幸福感极其依赖于性格，而性格又受遗传基因性格影响颇深。” 心理健康是实现基因运转最重要的一种方式。

Those who are mentally ill as adolescents are more likely to experience low earnings, unemployment, criminal records, teenage pregnancy, physical illness and poor educational performance than others in the population.
那些在少年时候就有精神疾病的人更容易遭受低收入、失业、犯罪记录、少年妈妈、生理疾病和糟糕教育表现等境遇。

Panel data allows comparisons of the life-satisfaction of the same individuals before and after they become disabled. The impact effect of severe disability is estimated as being 0.6 points on the one to seven life satisfaction scale, and that of moderate disability as 0.4 points.
研究中的固定样本数据可以将同一个人在残疾前后对生活的满意度进行对比。严重残疾的影响作用对生活满意度有着非常大的影响：在0-7分范围的中只得到0.6分，中度残疾为0.4分。

Adaptation to disability also impacts life-satisfaction, and someone who has been disabled for all of the past three years is less affected than someone who is recently disabled.
对于残疾的适应力也影响着生活满意度，残疾有3年的人比刚刚遭遇残疾的人所受到影响要小。