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星期一，9月6日（大紀元新聞） - 金錢可以幫助買到幸福 - 至少如果你帶來大約 75000美元一年，新的研究顯示。

雖然隨著年度增加幸福家庭收入高達約 75,000元，除此之外，賺取更多的錢並沒有影響日常的日常知足，根據這項研究。

但是，這並不意味著你應該放棄試圖獲得晉升。 同時更不會幫助你的情緒狀態的任何一天，人們誰了家庭收入超過75,000元 的 更傾向於說，他們用自己的生活感到滿意的整體。

這些誰做，比如說，12萬美元報導更滿意他們的生活，有較高的評估其整體生活比那些少了誰，而那些誰了16萬美元評估他們的生活，甚至更好。

“這是真正重要的是承認這個詞'幸福'涵蓋了很多理由，說：”研究報告的作者安格斯德亞，經濟學教授和普林斯頓大學國際事務。 他說：“你的總體評價是你的生活將會如何，而其他需要做更多的情感幸福的時刻。更高的收入似乎沒有產生任何影響福祉後約 75,000元，而你的評價你的生活繼續上升以及收入。“

這項研究是在9月6日早版的 法律程序的國家科學院。

研究人員使用的數據來自蓋洛普 - Healthways將幸福感指數，調查的45萬美國人在2008年和2009年對他們的家庭收入，情感狀態的前一天，整體感覺對自己的生活和福祉。

這兩項措施是獲得幸福在不同的東西，德亞說。 你可能會覺得不開心一天或藍色，因為你或你的老闆滋擾你有一個超速罰單，但總的來說，你會覺得生活是相當不錯。

反之，你可能會感到快樂，即使快樂，在郊遊與您的朋友和家人，但整體不滿意你的生命或方向的準備。

所以這衡量幸福的事情嗎？

這是一個哲學問題，或許只有1個人能回答，德亞說。 “這是一個非常深，難以回答的問題。[這兩項措施]是重要的。但是，如果你現在不開心，其實你的生活可能是不順利彌補這一點。”

社會科學家和心理學家早就設法解決如何衡量幸福，詹姆斯說馬達克斯是一名心理學教授在費爾法克斯的喬治梅森大學，弗吉尼亞州，誰沒有參與這項研究。

這項新的研究做了很好的工作的各個方面取笑除了情感福祉，包括主場迎戰更大更直接的情感畫面生活的評價，馬達克斯說。

“這項研究是符合了很多其他研究的收入和幸福之間的關係或整體生活滿意度，”馬達克斯說。 “什麼其它的研究也表明，就是錢的問題在一定程度上。但是，過了某一點，有更多的錢並沒有使人們喜歡他們的生活更美好，或自我感覺良好在日常的基礎。”

這種情形在其他國家以及世界各地的，他說。 當人均國內生產總值上升到1點，也就是人們不再努力滿足基本需要，如食物，衣服，住房和醫療保健，額外增加國家整體財富似乎並沒有多大的差別幸福，馬達克斯說。

馬達克斯敦促美國陷入困境的工人不要太掛在7.5萬美元的數字。 這可能意味著收入水平非常不同的事情取決於有多少人在家庭中，什麼種類的金融責任，你有和您居住的地方，他說。

“7.5萬美元不是一個神奇的數字，人們需要實現將在他們最快樂的，”馬達克斯說。 “關鍵是有一個門檻上，人們可能不會大幅美好的，如果他們繼續作出更多的錢。”

2008年，美國家庭平均收入約為 71 500美元，而中位數 - 或點其中一半收入較高，半數是較低的 - 是52,000美元。 平均傾斜高於中位數，因為少數收入水平較高，德亞頓解釋說。

當人們與家庭收入超過 75,000美元可能不會感到快樂的持久，如果他們能夠獲得更多的收入很可能會失去大量不利於他們的情緒福祉，研究建議。 隨著收入的下降，下降的受訪者的幸福和悲傷和壓力增加。

此外，根據研究，貧困加劇了情緒的影響負性生活事件，如疾病和離婚。 窮人也沒有得到盡可能多的從一個快樂的週末誰是那些較富裕的，根據研究人員。

“生活是不公平的窮人在所有類型的尺寸，”德亞說。

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MONDAY,Sept. 6 (Health Day News) -- Money can help buy happiness -- at least if you're bringing in about $75,000 a year, new research shows.

While happiness increases along with annual household incomes up to about $75,000, beyond that, earning more money has no effect on day-to-day contentment, according to the study.

But that doesn't mean you should give up trying to get that promotion.While making more won't help your emotional state on any given day,people who had household incomes above $75,000 were more apt to say they were satisfied overall with their life.

Those who made, say, $120,000 reported more satisfaction with their lives and had a higher assessment of their life overall than those who made less,while those who made $160,000 evaluated their lives even better still.

"It's really important to recognize that the word 'happiness' covers a lot of ground," said study author Angus Deaton, a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. "There is your overall evaluation of how your life is going, while the other has to do more with emotional well-being at the moment. Higher incomes don't seem to have any effect on well-being after around $75,000, whereas your evaluation of your life keeps going up along with income."

The study is in the Sept. 6 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers used data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which surveyed 450,000 Americans in 2008 and 2009 about their household income,emotional state during the prior day and overall feelings about their life and well-being.

Both measures of happiness are getting at something different, Deaton noted.You might be feeling blue or unhappy one day because your boss hassled you or you got a speeding ticket, but overall, you think life is going pretty well.

Conversely,you might have felt happy, even joyful, on an outing with your friends and family, but are overall not satisfied with your life or the direction it's going.

So which measure of happiness matters more?

That's a philosophical question and perhaps one only the individual can answer, Deaton said. "That's a really deep, hard question. [Both measures] are important. But if you're unhappy now, the fact your life may be going well doesn't make up for that."

Social scientists and psychologists have long grappled with how to measure happiness, said James Maddux, a psychology professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., who was not involved with the study.

The new study does a good job teasing apart the different aspects of emotional well-being, including more immediate emotions vs.bigger-picture life evaluations, Maddux said.

"This study is consistent with a lot of other studies on the relationship between income and happiness or overall life satisfaction," Madduxsaid. "What other studies have also shown is that money matters up to a point. But after a certain point, having additional money doesn't make people like their lives better or feel better about themselves on a day to day basis."

This holds true in other countries around the world as well, he noted. Once per capita GDP rises to a point in which people are no longer struggling to meet basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter and healthcare, additional increases in overall national wealth don't seem to make much of a difference in happiness, Maddux said.

Maddux urged America's beleaguered workers not to get too hung up on the$75,000 figure. That income level can mean very different things depending on how many people are in the family, what sorts of financial responsibilities you have and where you live, he said.

"$75,000is not a magical figure people need to achieve to be at their happiest," Maddux said. "The point is there is a threshold at which people probably are not going to be substantially happier if they keep making more money."

In2008, average U.S household income was about $71,500, while the median-- or the point at which half of incomes are higher and half are lower-- was $52,000. The average skews higher than the median because of a few very high incomes, Deaton explained.

While  people with household incomes of more than $75,000 probably won't feel an enduring happiness boost if they are able to earn more, losing substantial income would likely not be good for their emotional well being, the study suggested. As income dropped, respondents reported declining happiness and increased sadness and stress.

And,according to the study, poverty exacerbated the emotional impact of negative life events such as illness and divorce. Nor did the poor get as much of a happiness boost from weekends as those who were better-off, according to the researchers.

"Life is unfair for the poor in all sort of dimensions," Deaton said.

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能量化幸福，这也是一种发明。