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I found difficulty in recognizing the relevance of this study for two reasons. First, this study was conducted in 1992. I would find it extremely interesting to run this study again today and see the difference in results. My hypothesis is that this past study is completely irrelevant because the social and economic climate in 1992 is drastically different from today. Today, mental health issues are way more prevalent and seem to affect a larger percentage of the population and to a larger extreme, rendering this past study useless in applying it’s findings to today. The second issue I had with the study, which is unavoidable, is simply what the study is measuring. The study is asking about people’s personal mental wellbeing. I find this measure very subjective. There could be two people in the exact same situation and one could be perfectly happy and one could be utterly distraught. I think using this data to find general trends has the potential to be very misleading.