Gallup reported on a new poll which says no matter how you slice it, married people report a higher sense of personal well-being than unmarried people.
Adults who are married report being far happier than those in any other relationship status, according to a Gallup Poll published Friday.
“Any way you analyze those data, we see a fairly large and notable advantage to being married in terms of how people evaluate their life,” said poll author Jonathan Rothwell, principal economist at Gallup.
Over a period of 15 years from 2009 to 2023, Gallup surveyed more than 2.5 million American adults. Included in those surveys was a self-assessment metric called the Cantril Scale:
The Cantril Self-Anchoring Scale, developed by pioneering social researcher Dr. Hadley Cantril, consists of the following:
- Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top.
- The top…
