Some key differences between a happy life and a meaningful life
Some key differences between a happy life and a meaningful life
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DOI：
10.1080/17439760.2013.830764
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Garbinsky, Emily N.
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作者：
Baumeister, Roy F.;Vohs, Kathleen D.;Garbinsky, Emily N.
快乐和发现生活的意义是重叠的，但也有重要的区别。一项大型调查揭示了幸福（控制意义）和意义（控制幸福）的多种不同预测因素。满足一个人的需要和欲望会增加幸福感，但在很大程度上与意义无关。幸福在很大程度上是面向现在的，而意义则涉及整合过去，现在和未来。例如，思考未来和过去与高意义但低幸福感有关。幸福与接受者而不是给予者有关，而有意义与给予者而不是接受者有关。更高水平的担忧、压力和焦虑与更高的意义感有关，但与更低的幸福感有关。关注个人身份和表达自我有助于意义，但不是幸福。我们提供了简短的综合素描不幸但有意义的生活和幸福但无意义的生活。
Being happy and finding life meaningful overlap, but there are important differences. A large survey revealed multiple differing predictors of happiness (controlling for meaning) and meaningfulness (controlling for happiness). Satisfying one's needs and wants increased happiness but was largely irrelevant to meaningfulness. Happiness was largely present oriented, whereas meaningfulness involves integrating past, present, and future. For example, thinking about future and past was associated with high meaningfulness but low happiness. Happiness was linked to being a taker rather than a giver, whereas meaningfulness went with being a giver rather than a taker. Higher levels of worry, stress, and anxiety were linked to higher meaningfulness but lower happiness. Concerns with personal identity and expressing the self contributed to meaning but not happiness. We offer brief composite sketches of the unhappy but meaningful life and of the happy but meaningless life.