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Taking Regular Vacations May Help Boost Americans’ Well-Being

Gallup: “Making time for regular trips or vacations with family and friends is linked to higher overall well-being. Americans who say they take regular trips have significantly higher well-being than those who say they do not, as measured by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index scores, and this difference persists across all income groups. In fact, those who earn less than $24,000 annually and say they take regular trips actually have higher well-being (scoring 66.3) than those who earn $120,000 or more but say they don’t regularly make time for vacations (55.1). The link between making regular time for vacations and higher Well-Being Index scores is significant because these scores take into account Americans’ self-reported sense of purpose, social relationships, financial security, connection to community, and physical health. Previous Gallup research shows that an individual’s Well-Being Index score strongly relates to important health outcomes such as healthcare utilization, life expectancy, new onset disease burden, and change in obesity status.”

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