A recent study has found that unhappy people watch much more television than happy people.

The research has found that  happy people socialize more, read more newspaper and have more sex but watch less television. Those who are unhappy watch up to 30 percent more televisions than happy people. The study has been done in University of Maryland discovered.

The study included 30000 people who were subjected to analysis of their social habits. The study has spanned between 1975 and 2006. The study has been recently reported inn Telegraph

TV may provide viewers with short-run pleasure, but at the expense of long-term malaise.

The researchers have also taken into account short term happiness. It might mean that  while TV in general is a waste of time and not particularly enjoyable, the shows I saw tonight were pretty good,” Robinson said in an interview.

Source: TOI