Are you thinking about going on vacation with your friend this year? Research also supports such thinking!
This year, leave boyfriends, husbands, children, parents, brothers, sisters and colleagues out of your travel plans and instead plan a vacation with your girlfriends, because there are many reasons, why you must go on vacation with your friends this year - study from 2016, for example, found that spending time with friends increases release of oxytocin, which is a hormone luck. Among other things, it also acts as a natural antidepressant, but it is also important in to the development of empathy, cooperative behavior and attachments.
More recent research, conducted in 2017 at Michigan State University, found further evidence of the importance of maintaining good friendships for well-being and health, even especially in later periods of life. They just followed 280,000 participants and discovered that good friendships are important predict health and good luck in your old age.
This research also showed that friendships are beneficial for well-being in old age even more important than relationships with immediate family. So it is the matter is clear: definitely go on vacation with your friends. If you don't have time this year, make a commitment to go on the trip next year. Some ideas of where to travel can be found below!
