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Most research on the effects of giving has been conducted on older adults. Yet, giving time and money also predicts better psychological well‐being and health in middle‐aged adults, young adults, adolescents, children, and even toddlers.

Still the benefits of giving tend to get stronger as people age. This was recently confirmed in a study of over 1.7 million people from 166 nations. Although the study found joy of giving effects at all ages, it also found that 50‐year‐olds experienced double the joy of giving compared to 20‐year‐olds, and 80‐year‐olds experienced even more – 2.74 times that of 20‐year‐olds. Similar patterns were found worldwide. This might be because of different types of volunteer jobs across different age groups, or different motives and emotional responses to giving as people age.