Do we find happiness at church?

Jonathan Clements of The Wall Street Journal wrote this week about an interesting study on happiness and leisure time. The study of 4,000 Americans, by academics Daniel Kahneman, Alan Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz and Arthur Stone, found that how we spend our time is a key factor in our happiness.

What Clements found the most intriguing was "the study's data on which activities we enjoy. The five professors grouped activities into six clusters, based on the emotions associated with each.

The standout cluster was what the authors label 'engaging leisure and spiritual activities,' things like visiting friends, exercising, attending church, listening to music, fishing, reading a book, sitting in a cafe or going to a party. When we spend time on our favorite of these activities, we're typically happy, engrossed and not especially stressed."

Come to think of it, I should head off to church now.