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Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements by choosing the correct options from the given ones.

As an individual's free time increases, so does that person's sense of well-being but only up to a point. According to a recent study by a team of international scientists, too much free time can also be a bad thing.

"People often complain about being too busy and express wanting more time. But is more time actually linked to greater happiness? We found that having a dearth of discretionary hours in one's day, results in greater stress and lower subjective well-being," said Marisa Sharif, PhD, and assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School and lead author of the paper. "However while too little time is bad, having more time is not always better."

The Researchers found that as free time increased, so did well-being, but it levelled off at about two hours and began to decline after five. To further investigate the phenomenon, the researchers conducted two online experiments involving more than 6,000 participants. In the first experiment, participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time every day for at least six months. Participants in both the low and high discretionary time groups reported lower well-being than the moderate discretionary time group. The researchers found that those with low discretionary time felt more stressed than those with a moderate amount, contributing to lower well-being, but those with high levels of free time left less productive than those in the moderate group, leading them to also have lower well-being.

The researchers found participants with more free time reported lower levels of well-beings when engaging in unproductive activities. However, when engaging in productive activities, those with more free time felt similar to those with a moderate amount of free time.

Read the following statements:

"It levelled off at about two hours". Here 'It' stands for

1
free time
2
well-being of an individual
3
researcher's well-being
4
activity time

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