Time Care: Study and Time Energy

time care: Those who reported volunteering time and energy to help others were less likely to have died during the 13 years of the study than those who didn't, the researchers found, according to Market Watch. But that wasn't the case for those who merely donated money to good causes. That's the cheerful implication of a newly published study which looked at the generosity and longevity of more than 3,500 people in their 60s and 70s from Wisconsin. Giving one's time care giving, volunteering etc. and pro-social traits characterized by being concerned for the well-being of others were associated with a lower mortality risk in older adults, but giving money wasn't, the study authors wrote. They followed members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a periodic survey of a sample of the state's high school graduates that began in 1957. The paper, Which types of giving are associated with reduced mortality risk among older adults, appears in the peer-reviewed journal Personality and Individual Differences, and was written by Heng Qu of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, Sara Konrath at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Michael Poulin of University of Buffalo's Department of Psychology. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.