According to specialists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the happiness of Mexicans depends on insecurity and violence that impacts society, which has made citizens unhappier.
The academic of the Department of Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM, Beatriz Georgina Montemayor Flores, pointed out that there are times when the “happiness is confused with joy”since joy is something momentary while happiness is built and is dynamic over time.
Montemayor Flores pointed out that happiness in Mexico has decreased according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where happiness is measured according to data such as housing, salary, work, the community in which it develops, level of education, connection with the environment, health, civic engagement, safety and work-life balance.
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According to this, the decrease in safety rates in Mexico causes the country to stop being happy, since the state of mind does not stop detaching itself from the environment; Furthermore, with the arrival of the pandemic, economic and health insecurities arose, as well as an increase in domestic and intra-family violence and organized crime, according to Manuel Alonso González Oscoy, from the Faculty of Psychology.
“Human beings like to believe that we are certain of what is going to happen,” said Montemayor Flores, which is why the pandemic and increased insecurity brought increased uncertainty.
Therefore, based on the evaluations related by the INEGI around the aforementioned data, it is possible to measure the happiness index of the states of the country where the unhappiest turns out to be Sonora.
According to him Happiness Mapthe happiest states in the country are: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Mexico City.
The half-happy states are: Yucatán, Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro and the State of Mexico.
While the unhappy are: Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Campeche, Chiapas, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Hidalgo.
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In the case of the very unhappy, they are: Sinaloa and Coahuila; and the unhappiest state is Sonora.
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