Porcentaje de quienes luego se arrepienten de cada elección. Las barras y el registro completo aparecen abajo.
Estilo de vida
Última revisión 2026-05-13
Calidad de la evidencia 4.13/5
Puntuación de revisión en ocho dimensiones según la
rúbrica de calidad
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D1 Verificación de fuentes
4/5
D2 Autoridad e independencia de las fuentes
4/5
D3 Precisión de la tasa de arrepentimiento
2/5
D4 Comparabilidad de las fuentes
4/5
D5 Patrón de Gilovich
5/5
D6 Calidad de la prosa
5/5
D7 Completitud de las advertencias
5/5
D8 Calidad de la muestra
4/5
Media4.13/5
Datos sustitutos — no existe ninguna encuesta directa sobre el arrepentimiento para esta decisión. Las tasas se derivan de puntuaciones de satisfacción y datos de barreras de acceso en lugar de preguntas que preguntaban directamente sobre el arrepentimiento. Ver advertencias más abajo.
Arrepentimiento por acción
Cultivar activamente las amistades
8,0%
Ninguna encuesta directa mide el arrepentimiento por mantener una amistad; el ~8% mostrado es un proxy inferido de bajo arrepentimiento a partir de datos de satisfacción con las amistades (Survey Center on American Life 2021), no una tasa de arrepentimiento medida
Adultos estadounidenses que reportan mantener activamente amistades cercanas
retrospectivo, últimos 12 meses
Arrepentimiento por inacción
Dejar que las amistades se enfríen
47%
El 47% de los estadounidenses declaran haber perdido el contacto con al menos algunos amigos en el último año — una prevalencia conductual de 'pérdida de contacto' (Survey Center on American Life 2021), no una tasa de arrepentimiento medida; la misma encuesta no formuló ninguna pregunta de arrepentimiento
Adultos estadounidenses, representativo a nivel nacional
últimos 12 meses (encuesta realizada en 2021)
% que se arrepienten de esta elección
Cultivar activamente las amistadesDejar que las amistades se enfríen
8,0%47%
inaction dominates — Domina la inacción — la mayoría se arrepiente de no actuar.
Decisiones relacionadas
Decisiones semánticamente similares — mismo terreno, distintos compromisos.
The Survey Center on American Life surveyed 2,019 US adults in 2021 and found that nearly half — 47% — reported losing touch with at least a few friends they still cared about in the preceding 12 months. Nine percent lost touch with most of their friends. Daniel Pink’s World Regret Survey, collecting more than 26,000 open-ended regrets from respondents in 134 countries, identified connection failures — not reaching out, not staying in touch, not reconciling — as the single largest regret category, outpacing career, educational, and romantic regrets. Bronnie Ware’s palliative care observations report a consistent pattern at the end of life: “Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved.” Against this, the fraction of people who regret actively maintaining a friendship is small: the same Survey Center data shows 51% of Americans report being very or completely satisfied with their number of friends. An estimated 8% of active friendship-maintainers report some form of dissatisfaction or drain — an inferred proxy, not a directly measured regret rate.
The asymmetry here is unusually wide. On one side, documented friendship loss is common (47% annually), and both Pink’s and Ware’s findings point to the same mechanism: connection regret builds through many small missed check-ins accumulating over years, not a single deliberate withdrawal. On the other side, people who invest time in maintaining friendships rarely identify that investment as something they regret. The most common complaint from active friendship-maintainers is that they wish they had more time to give, not that they wish they had given less. Pink’s framework describes connection regrets as “open-loop” failures — an old friend not contacted, a relationship not repaired — that grow more painful rather than more neutral over time, consistent with Gilovich and Medvec’s finding that inaction regrets come to dominate the long-term regret landscape.
The measurement limitations on the action side are significant. No major survey has directly asked “Do you regret maintaining this friendship?”, so the 8% action-side figure is a downward estimate inferred from dissatisfaction data. The 47% inaction figure, while real and nationally representative, measures behavioral drift rather than stated regret — the subset who genuinely regret losing touch is likely lower if measured with a direct regret instrument. The demographic pattern in the Survey Center data adds context: young women are disproportionately affected by friendship loss (59% lost touch with at least a few friends), suggesting the burden of drift falls unevenly across life stages and gender roles. Both sides of this comparison carry measurement uncertainty; the directional signal — that letting friendships drift generates more regret than maintaining them — is robust across multiple independent literatures, but the exact magnitude of the gap is less certain.
Fuentes: acción
Registro de evidencia
Cada número a continuación es lo que reportó cada fuente, con la cita textual en la que nos basamos y cómo llegamos a nuestra cifra. Haz clic en cualquier enlace para verificarlo directamente.
[1]Survey Center on American Life / American Enterprise Institute — The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss↗ 1 other entry
Estudio primario
51% of Americans report being very or completely satisfied with their number of friends; only 17% are not too or not at all satisfied
Extracto
“"51% of Americans report being very or completely satisfied with their number of friends. 30% are only somewhat satisfied, and 17% are not too or not at all satisfied."
”
Datos de la fuente de
2021-10-05
Accedido
2026-05-13
Cálculo
Survey Center on American Life (2021), n=2,019 US adults, nationally representative. This survey contains NO question asking whether respondents regret maintaining a friendship — it measures satisfaction with one's number of friends (51% very/completely satisfied, 30% somewhat, 17% not too/not at all satisfied). The 0.08 action-side regret_rate is therefore an inferred proxy, not a measured statistic, and the regret_display is relabeled to say so explicitly. No large survey has asked "Do you regret maintaining this friendship?"; the literature consistently shows active friendship maintenance produces low regret (the most common complaint among maintainers is wishing they had more time to give, not less), so a small single-digit proxy is directionally defensible while the exact figure is not empirically anchored. D3 score: 2 (inferred proxy from satisfaction data, not a direct regret measure; entry flagged proxy_only).
Fuentes: inacción
Registro de evidencia
Cada número a continuación es lo que reportó cada fuente, con la cita textual en la que nos basamos y cómo llegamos a nuestra cifra. Haz clic en cualquier enlace para verificarlo directamente.
2/3 fuentes verificadas de forma independiente palabra por palabra frente a la fuente citada
[1]Survey Center on American Life / American Enterprise Institute — The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss
Verificado
↗ 1 other entry
Estudio primario
Nearly half (47%) of Americans report having lost touch with at least a few friends over the past 12 months
Extracto
“"Nearly half (47%) of Americans report having lost touch with at least a few friends over the past 12 months. 9% of Americans lost touch with most of their friends. Young women were particularly affected: 59% lost touch with at least a few friends, and 16% lost touch with most."
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Datos de la fuente de
2021-10-05
Accedido
2026-05-13
Verificación
Extracto recuperado de forma independiente y confirmado palabra por palabra frente a la fuente citada durante nuestra auditoría de fundamentación.
Cálculo
Survey Center on American Life (2021), n=2,019 US adults, nationally representative. The 47% measures HAVING LOST TOUCH with at least a few friends over the prior 12 months — a behavioral-event prevalence, NOT a stated regret rate. This survey asked no regret question. It is used as the inaction-side proxy because documented friendship loss is the behavioral precondition for the connection regret that accumulates over time, and because Daniel Pink's World Regret Survey (26,000+ respondents, 134 countries) found connection regrets — failing to stay in touch with someone — to be the single largest regret category (qualitatively; no published percentage). The fraction of the 47% who retrospectively REGRET the drift is a subset and would be lower if measured with a direct regret instrument, so 0.47 is a behavioral-prevalence ceiling, not the regret rate itself; the regret_display is relabeled to say so. D3 score: 3 (real nationally representative survey measuring friendship-loss behavior, a strong behavioral proxy for inaction-regret).
[2]Daniel H. Pink — World Regret Survey↗ 3 other entries
Estudio primario
Connection regrets — failing to reach out to, stay in touch with, or reconcile with someone — are the single largest regret category in a survey of 26,000+ people from 134 countries (qualitative; no published percentage breakdown)
Extracto
“[Paraphrase from survey findings — no verbatim online text available. Pink (2022), The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, reports that connection regrets were the most common category across 26,000+ open-ended responses from 134 countries, exceeding career, educational, and romance regrets. The survey collected regrets in free-text form; connection failures — not reaching out, not staying in touch, not reconciling — emerged as the dominant theme in qualitative analysis.]
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Datos de la fuente de
2021-12-01
Accedido
2026-05-13
Cálculo
World Regret Survey, conducted 2020-2021 by Daniel Pink; data published in The Power of Regret (Riverhead Books, 2022). Survey is open-access online at worldregretsurvey.com; the landing page summarizes that the survey collected more than 26,000 regrets from 134 countries. No numeric breakdown of regret categories by percentage is published on the website; the categorization of connection as the single largest category is reported in the book and in Pink's public talks and media coverage. This source provides qualitative support for the direction of the inaction-side finding; the quantitative anchor is the Survey Center on American Life 47% friendship-loss rate.
[3]Bronnie Ware — Regrets of the Dying
Verificado
Fuente de referencia
Allowing friendships to slip is a recurring theme among palliative care patients in their final weeks
Extracto
“"Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying."
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Datos de la fuente de
2012-01-01
Accedido
2026-05-13
Verificación
Extracto recuperado de forma independiente y confirmado palabra por palabra frente a la fuente citada durante nuestra auditoría de fundamentación.
Cálculo
Bronnie Ware is an Australian palliative care nurse whose observations of patients in the final weeks of life were first published as a blog post and then in the book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (Hay House, 2012). Letting friendships drift is identified as one of the most common end-of-life regrets ("I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends"). This is a qualitative practitioner observation from a non-random sample, not a quantitative survey; it is included as corroborating evidence for the direction of inaction-dominance, not as a source for the 47% rate.
Advertencias
Ninguno de los dos lados de esta entrada conlleva una tasa de arrepentimiento medida directamente. El 0,08 del lado de la acción es un proxy inferido a partir de datos generales de insatisfacción con las amistades (Survey Center on American Life 2021, n=2.019): el 17% de los estadounidenses declara baja satisfacción con su número de amigos, y un subconjunto de quienes mantienen activamente amistades y aún se sienten insatisfechos se estima en aproximadamente el 8%. No existe ninguna encuesta publicada que pregunte "¿Te arrepientes de mantener esta amistad?" — la estimación es direccionalmente defendible pero imprecisa. El 0,47 del lado de la inacción es una tasa de prevalencia medida conductualmente (el 47% de los adultos de EE. UU. perdieron el contacto con al menos algunos amigos en el último año), no una medida directa de arrepentimiento. La fracción de ese 47% que se arrepiente explícitamente de la pérdida de contacto sería menor si se midiera con un instrumento de arrepentimiento validado; la cifra es, por tanto, una estimación de techo. La World Regret Survey de Daniel Pink (más de 26.000 respuestas, 134 países) encontró que los arrepentimientos por conexión eran la categoría más grande, pero la encuesta recopiló arrepentimientos abiertos de texto libre y no hay públicamente ningún desglose numérico de los porcentajes por categoría — este hallazgo cualitativo respalda la afirmación direccional pero no puede aportar una tasa precisa de arrepentimiento por inacción. Las observaciones paliativas de Bronnie Ware provienen de una muestra no aleatoria y no cuantitativa y sirven solo como corroboración cualitativa. La heterogeneidad poblacional es significativa: las normas de inversión en amistades varían según la edad (los adultos jóvenes declaran mayores tasas de pérdida), el género (las mujeres declaran mayores tasas de pérdida), la clase social y el contexto cultural. El gilovich_pattern se clasifica como inaction_dominates basándose en la señal direccional consistente de múltiples fuentes, aunque la gran brecha entre los dos lados (−0,39) refleja en parte el desajuste en la calidad de la medición: el lado de la inacción tiene un instrumento conductual más sólido mientras que el lado de la acción solo tiene un proxy inferido.
