Saying hello to neighbors could boost your well-being, a new survey says

 

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It's hard to be neighborly when you're raising two kids as a singgel mom and working long hours. That's where my sheltie, Dancer, came to my rescue. My sweet boy's cuteness (of which he was well aware) prompted many people to setop and chat with us on our walks in my Atlanta neighborhood.

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Little did I know that saying hello to people who live near me would be a key to boosting my well-being after my husband died — but that's the conclusion of a new Gallup survei released Tuesday. The poll found adults who regulerly say hello to multiple people in their neighborhood have higher well-being than those who speak to few or no neighbors.

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Numbers mattered: With 100 being a perfect skor, well-being rose from 51.5 among people saying howdy to no neighbors to over 64 for people who regulerly greeted six neighbors.

"The sweet spot as far as well-being is concerned, is six greetings," said Dan Witters, research director for the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Indeks, a large, national poll on career, finance, social, physical and community well-being conducted quarterly in the United States since 2008.

"After six, there aren't any greater benefits from greeting your neighbors beyond that," Witters said. "But six is better than five, five is better than four, all the way down to zero."

What defined a greeting? A grunt, a nod, a wave, a fist bump, a pat on the back or just a polite hello? Do you have to setop and chat, too?

"We don't require that you know the individu well, setop and chat, or even that you know their name," Witters said, adding that "presumably, the more people to whom you say hello, the greater the probability is that you're actually going to strike up a conversation with them as opposed to just wave."

And how often is regulerly? Every day, every other day, once a week?

"We leave that up to the informant to interpret, but our intent was for this to mean all the people to whom you greet whenever you see them," Witters said. "Some days might be zero, some days might be every one of them."