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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Ricans have ranked highest in the world in one survey of how satisfied people are with their lives, but the result is drawing head-shaking on the Caribbean island, where some say islanders have plenty of personal problems and psychologists estimate nearly one in three are at risk of mental illness.
The Sweden-based World Values Survey drew its conclusions from questionnaires filled out by some 120,000 people in 82 nations, but some newspaper reports have mistakenly suggested the findings mean Puerto Ricans are the happiest in the world, the nonprofit group's secretary general, Bin Puranen, said Friday.
"Puerto Ricans are very self-satisfied. This doesn't mean they are the happiest people," said Puranen, a professor at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.
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