‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study sugges

[Ptarmigan]

‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests
https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/lifestyle/woke-people-more-likely-to-be-unahppy-anxious-and-depressed-new-study-suggests/

Is ignorance bliss?

Psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment to help measure an individual’s commitment to principles of social justice and made some surprising findings across the Finnish population — including a negative correlation between progressive ideals and levels of happiness.

Their findings, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, suggest other Western nations may see similar patterns among their socially conscious citizens.

Study author Oskari Lahtinen, a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku, remarked that the “woke” discourse has since worked its way into Finnish discourse.

“This debate was largely data-free and it could thus be considered a worthwhile question to study how prevalent these attitudes are,” he continued. “No reliable and valid instrument existed prior to the study to assess the extent and prevalence of these attitudes in different populations, so I set out to develop one.”

Here is the study.

Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjop.13018

I am not surprised being woke is not mentally and psychologically healthy.

[DefiantSix]

‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests

Not seeing a down side to this.

Folks that are unhappy, anxious and depressed are orders of magnitude more likely to off themselves. If that doesn't qualify as the trash taking itself out in this case, I don't know what would...

[FlaGator]

They needed a study to determine this? These people spend every moment of their lives looking for something to be offended by, which isn't hard to do by the way, and I wonder why they all haven't been institutionalized or unlived themselves.

[SVPete]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or was it simultaneous?