Happiness and physical activity: Technical Report

Lekue, Izaskun (2022) Happiness and physical activity: Technical Report. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

Lately there is a lot of talk about how physical activity produces beneficial physiological effects to control stress. The practice (always better outdoors and in good company) encourages the production of endorphins, dopamine and serotonin, which are hormones of happiness. Sport also favours mental states in which we isolate ourselves from worries and anxieties.

My technical reports consist in analysing the difference between physical activity performed in different countries and if those countries where they perform more activity are the ones with higher happiness score.

This document explains and details the methodology used and steps taken to analyse if there is any relation between physical activity performed and happiness of people in 27 European countries.

For this I have focused on 3 primary databases with information on deaths related to lack of sport or sedentary life, happiness score and amount of physical activity performed in each country.

The main sections of the report are: Data (describes the data chosen for the project), Methodology (explains the methodology used, KDD), Analysis(how the analysis has been conducted) and Results(the section with the outcomes and visualizations of the analysis).

From this analysis, it was concluded that there is a significant difference between Meridional Europe and Septentrional Europe countries and that there is a significant relation between amount of physical activity performed and happiness scores.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Computer software R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine > Personal Health and Hygiene
Divisions:	School of Computing > Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing
Depositing User:	Clara Chan
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2022 14:28
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2022 14:28
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/5741

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