{"id":227041,"date":"2025-12-13T05:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/feeling-happier-starts-with-kindness-compassion-tied-to-higher-life-satisfaction"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:13:32","slug":"feeling-happier-starts-with-kindness-compassion-tied-to-higher-life-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/feeling-happier-starts-with-kindness-compassion-tied-to-higher-life-satisfaction","title":{"rendered":"Feeling happier starts with kindness: Compassion tied to higher life satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feeling-happier-starts-with-kindness-compassion-tied-to-higher-life-satisfaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People who treat others with compassion often feel more at ease themselves. This is the key finding of a new study by Majlinda Zhuniq, Dr. Friedericke Winter, and Professor Corina Aguilar-Raab from the University of Mannheim. Their study was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-23460-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>While the link between self-compassion and well-being is well established, this effect has hardly been researched with respect to compassion for others. In a meta-analysis, the research team analyzed data from more than 40 individual studies.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that people who empathize with others, support them, or want to help them report greater overall <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-04-occupational-therapy-health-crisis.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">life satisfaction<\/a>, experience more joy, and see more meaning in life. On average, these people\u2019s psychological well-being was higher. The link between compassion and a reduction in negative feelings, such as stress or sadness, was weaker. However, slight positive trends could also be seen in this respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who treat others with compassion often feel more at ease themselves. This is the key finding of a new study by Majlinda Zhuniq, Dr. Friedericke Winter, and Professor Corina Aguilar-Raab from the University of Mannheim. Their study was recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. While the link between self-compassion and well-being is well [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}