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Money cannot buy happiness
Washington: Providing people with freedom and personal autonomy appears to be more important than money in giving them good health and happiness, according to a new research, reports ANI.
“Our findings provide new insights into well-being at the societal level, said researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand who conducted the study.
“Providing individual with more autonomy appears to be important for reducing negative psychological tests-altogether, they examined a sample of 420,599 people from 63 countries spanning nearly 40 years.
Fischer and Boer statistically combined the results of the different studies, noting that their analysis was somewhat unusual in that the key variables were collected from different sources and that no single study included the two variables they were considering, i.e., wealth and individualism. (Participants only answered questions regarding one of the dependent variables of general health anxiety or burnout.)
“Across all three studies and four data sets, we observed a very consistent and robust finding that societal values of individualism were the best predicators of wellbeing,” the authors wrote. “Furthermore, if wealth was a significant predictor alone, this effect disappeared when individualism was entered”. In short, they found, money leads to autonomy but it does not add to well-being or happiness.”
Washington: Providing people with freedom and personal autonomy appears to be more important than money in giving them good health and happiness, according to a new research, reports ANI.
“Our findings provide new insights into well-being at the societal level, said researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand who conducted the study.
“Providing individual with more autonomy appears to be important for reducing negative psychological tests-altogether, they examined a sample of 420,599 people from 63 countries spanning nearly 40 years.
Fischer and Boer statistically combined the results of the different studies, noting that their analysis was somewhat unusual in that the key variables were collected from different sources and that no single study included the two variables they were considering, i.e., wealth and individualism. (Participants only answered questions regarding one of the dependent variables of general health anxiety or burnout.)
“Across all three studies and four data sets, we observed a very consistent and robust finding that societal values of individualism were the best predicators of wellbeing,” the authors wrote. “Furthermore, if wealth was a significant predictor alone, this effect disappeared when individualism was entered”. In short, they found, money leads to autonomy but it does not add to well-being or happiness.”
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