Long-running German panel survey shows that personal and economic choices, not just genes, matter for happiness

被引：98

作者：

Headey, Bruce ^{[1
]}

Muffels, Ruud ^{[2
]}

Wagner, Gert G. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Inst, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia

[2] Tilburg Univ, Dept Social Sci, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands

[3] German Inst Econ Res, D-10117 Berlin, Germany

[4] Max Planck Inst Human Dev, D-10117 Berlin, Germany

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 2010年 / 107卷 / 42期

关键词：

German Socio-Economic Panel; set-point theory; subjective utility; SET-POINT; LIFE SATISFACTION; NEUROTICISM; ADAPTATION; MONEY;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.1008612107

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Psychologists and economists take contradictory approaches to research on what psychologists call happiness or subjective wellbeing, and economists call subjective utility. A direct test of the most widely accepted psychological theory, set-point theory, shows it to be flawed. Results are then given, using the economists' newer "choice approach"-an approach also favored by positive psychologists-which yields substantial payoffs in explaining long-term changes in happiness. Data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2008), a unique 25-y prospective longitudinal survey. This dataset enables direct tests of theories explaining long-term happiness.

引用

页码：17922 / 17926

页数：5

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