The Relationship Between Disdiscretionary Time and Happiness

Cassie Hirschfield and Marissa Sharif looked at what is the relationship between the amount of discretionary time people have and their happiness. They found that among folks who had more than approximately five hours of discretionary time in the day we're also less happy. Cassie: People with excesses of free time felt satisfied in their lives because they craved a goal to give them life purpose. But this doesn't mean we should all work ourselves to the bone to fill our days, she says.