{"id":7337,"date":"2019-04-14T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7337-study-muslims-have-highest-life-satisfaction\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:32:07","slug":"study-muslims-have-highest-life-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7337-study-muslims-have-highest-life-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Muslims have highest life satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">It is believed that no barometer or measuring tool can be used to quantify the bliss a person feels in any given moment in their life.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that no barometer or measuring tool can be used to quantify the bliss a person feels in any given moment in their life.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new study conducted by German psychologist, Dr Edinger-Schons, found that measuring life satisfaction is as close as you can get to quantifying happiness. He found that the overarching sense of \u2018oneness\u2019 is used to envisage the overall contentment in the life of a person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 67,000 were gathered to complete a survey and after dividing the respondents by religion, Muslims were found to feel the greatest sense of oneness, leading to a greater sense of well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a professor at the University of Illinois created a scale for happiness, or the \u2018satisfaction with life scale\u2019 (SWLS).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As one of the core beliefs of Christianity is also the worship of One God, they, therefore, ranked second to Muslims, and were followed by Buddhists and Hindus. Unsurprisingly, the study found atheists to be the sect with the lowest level of satisfaction, due to a disconnection to others or a higher power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed that no barometer or measuring tool can be used to quantify the bliss a person feels in any given moment in their life. \u00a0 It is believed that no barometer or measuring tool can be used to quantify the bliss a person feels in any given moment in their life. 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