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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Does Money Buy Happiness?

They are two of the biggest things we seek in life: happiness and money. But researchers looking into what makes us happy haven't found convincing evidence that money and happiness are strongly linked. Until now. So how much does money influence happiness?

Researchers polled 136,000 people in 132 countries and they found that money does indeed buy one kind of happiness. They separate happiness into two categories: life satisfaction (the belief that your life is going well) and emotional well-being.

They found around the world, as income increases, life satisfaction increases.

'Money is part of that. But it's not the positive feeling,' said Alan Steed, Ph.D., a psychologist with Allina Hospitals. Read the entire article.

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