The article is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine. Happiness is known, not in money, but in their quantity. Someone belongs to this joke with humor, and someone - seriously. It is customary to think that it is impossible to buy many joys, but it seems, to calm themselves this thought is not such a productive entry. A scientist from Pennsylvania University (USA) showed that feeling happiness depends more on the notorious bills than many would like to think.
The study was conducted with the help of 33,391 participants aged from 18 to 65 years, which provided data on their emotions and feelings, filled short surveys during the day, in randomly selected moments. For example, they answered questions "How do you feel now?", "How are you generally satisfied with life?" With options for answers from "very bad" to "very good", from "at all" to "extremely". The survey was carried out using a special mobile application.
Application Creator - Senior Researcher WHARTON SCHOOL Pennsylvania University Matt Killingsworth, He is the author of the new work. Some other studies have shown that for happiness, it is enough to have income with certain threshold values, but a scientist from the United States received other results. According to him, no threshold, after which money would cease to be important for a person, no.
In addition, previous works, as a rule, included self-esteem of general well-being, life satisfaction. KillingSworth did not focus not only on this, but also on the worried welfare, that is, such that shows that the person feels at a certain point in the present.
Additional criteria for well-being experienced included 12 senses and emotions: confidence, inspiration, interest, pride, fear, anger, boredom, sadness, stress, and so on. Such a detailed cut of everyday life (total respondents amounted to almost 1726 reports) allowed a scientist to compare its results with an average level of well-being of each participant.
The researcher came to the conclusion that the feeling of well-being and happiness, on the contrary, often continues to be strengthened with income growth. According to KillingSworth, this is due to the fact that the more money has a person, the stronger his sense of control over life. Nevertheless, the scientist warns to treat finances as an equivalent of happiness. "People who identified money and success were less happy than those who did not do this. I also found out that people who earned more money, and worked longer, so they felt a greater shortage of time, "he said.
Source: Naked Science