Are Health and Happiness the Product of Wisdom? The Relationship of General Mental Ability to Educational and Occupational Attainment, Health, and Well-Being
Are Health and Happiness the Product of Wisdom? The Relationship of General Mental Ability to Educational and Occupational Attainment, Health, and Well-Being
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DOI：
10.1037/a0019084
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发表时间：
2010-05-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Dimotakis, Nikolaos
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作者：
Judge, Timothy A.;Ilies, Remus;Dimotakis, Nikolaos
本研究测试了一个结构模型，解释了一般心理能力对经济，身体和主观幸福感的影响。提出了一个模型，将一般心理能力与幸福感联系起来，使用教育，不健康行为（吸烟和酗酒），职业声望和健康作为中介变量。样本由398人组成，从他们的措施收集了4个时期。结果支持了一个模型，该模型包括从心理能力到身体健康的直接和间接（通过不健康的行为和职业声望）联系（即，健康和经济福利。此外，研究结果支持了经济幸福感和身体幸福感与主观幸福感的关系。总的来说，这项研究强调了工作和非工作成果的一般心理能力的重要性，包括身体，经济和心理健康。
This study tested a structural model explaining the effects of general mental ability on economic, physical, and subjective well-being. A model was proposed that linked general mental ability to well-being using education, unhealthy behaviors (smoking and excessive drinking), occupational prestige, and health as mediating variables. The sample consisted of 398 individuals, from whom measures were collected across 4 periods. The results supported a model that includes direct and indirect (through unhealthy behaviors and occupational prestige) links from mental ability to physical well-being (i.e., health) and economic well-being. Furthermore, the results supported the relationships of economic well-being and physical well-being to subjective wellbeing. Overall, the study underscores the importance of general mental ability to work and nonwork outcomes, including physical, economic, and psychological well-being.