Would you choose to be happy? Tradeoffs between happiness and the other dimensions of life in a large population survey
Would you choose to be happy? Tradeoffs between happiness and the other dimensions of life in a large population survey
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.006
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Kavetsos, Georgios
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作者：
Adler, Matthew D.;Dolan, Paul;Kavetsos, Georgios
大量文献记录了幸福的决定因素。但幸福是人们对生活的全部追求吗？如果是这样，什么类型的幸福对他们来说很重要？或者他们愿意为了生活中的其他品质而牺牲幸福（无论它是如何定义的）？我们展示的直接证据表明，在英国和美国的大量样本中，个人在幸福水平与收入水平、身体健康、家庭、职业成功和教育之间进行权衡。平均而言，所有类型的幸福都比除健康之外的其他属性更受青睐。人们更喜欢情感上的幸福（感觉良好），而不是评价性（生活满意度）和幸福感（价值感）成分。这一结果对于方法论创新是稳健的，例如使用小插图和对所描述的生活的判断。(C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
A large literature documents the determinants of happiness. But is happiness all that people want from life; and if so, what type of happiness matters to them? Or are they willing to sacrifice happiness (however it is defined) for other attributes in their lives? We show direct evidence that individuals trade-off levels of happiness with levels of income, physical health, family, career success and education in a large sample of UK and US individuals. On average, all types of happiness are preferred to other attributes except health. People prefer affective happiness (feeling good") over evaluative (life satisfaction) and eudaimonic (worthwhileness) components. This result is robust to methodological innovations, such as the use of vignettes and judgements of the lives described. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.