{"id":2370,"date":"2014-08-12T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2014-09-12T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:06:33","slug":"sharing-makes-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/sharing-makes-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing makes you happy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey by Gallup on the relationship between well-being and community service shows a direct positive correlation. The overall pattern cut across income and age group.\u00a0 The Gallup analysis also found a connection between community service and key indicators of emotional health, such as stress and worry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gallupwellbeing20140812.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2371\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gallupwellbeing20140812.png?resize=524%2C417\" alt=\"gallupwellbeing20140812\" width=\"524\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gallupwellbeing20140812.png?w=524&amp;ssl=1 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gallupwellbeing20140812.png?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly it seems that many more U.S. adults do not receive recognition for community service, so this\u00a0 study suggests that communities would be wise to do more to promote opportunities for residents to volunteer and engage in community service and businesses can help by allowing their workers time to engage in volunteer activities.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/174785\/americans-serving-communities-gain-edge.aspx\">Americans Serving Their Communities Gain Well-Being Edge<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hed\">CityLab by The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/cityfixer\/2014\/08\/theres-a-remarkably-strong-link-between-community-service-and-happiness\/375960\/\">There&#8217;s a Remarkably Strong Link Between Community Service and Happiness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey by Gallup on the relationship between well-being and community service shows a direct positive correlation. The overall pattern cut across income and age group.\u00a0 The Gallup analysis also found a connection between community service and key indicators of emotional health, such as stress and worry. Sadly it seems that many more U.S. adults &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/sharing-makes-you-happy\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharing makes you happy.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-philanthropy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Ce","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}