We’ve all heard that money can’t buy happiness. But, let’s see, it’s always better to seek personal satisfaction with a mortgage and paid bills. This is a pretty old debate because there are people who really think that happiness cannot be achieved with a checkbook, while others believe it helps a lot. As a rule, the first, as a rule, are those who live with a certain economic ease, there is no need for some scientist to come and tell us about it.

However, a group of scientists from Princeton University conducted a study that shows that money can actually help to find happiness. At least partially.

This is a study by psychologists, although it also involved two millionaires who donated altruistically $2 million for use in research. These distributed among 200 people of seven countries with such different incomes such as USA and Kenya. They all had the same level of education and spoke at least some English. As for the amount that each received $10,000. In addition, there was another control group who were not given money. Belonging to the control group has never been so painful.

Money brings happiness… when you’re poor

Measuring happiness is not easy. Much less compare it to other people. For this reason, these scientists have tried to quantify it in the most objective way possible with a list 5 itemswhich the participants had to rate from 1 to 5.

they all had three months to spend $10,000They couldn’t save them. At that time they had to take a monthly survey on the 5 points mentioned above. In addition, six months later they completed it again.

Curiously, those who had annual income $123,000, according to surveys, they did not have a significant increase in happiness. However, people with more modest incomes did improve their emotional well-being after donating. In fact, overall life satisfaction improved by an average of 0.36 points per person.

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What if you’re rich?

On the other hand, the same survey was conducted among donors; who, despite their altruism, showed less satisfaction 0’16 points. This leads us to the conclusion that, in fact, the happiness of the winner is greater than the sadness of the loser. At least as long as the loss was voluntary and for good.

In any case, the bottom line is that money may not bring absolute happiness, but it helps to significantly increase life satisfaction. At least those people who know what it’s like to survive financial difficulties. If you were already rich before, a little more money will not cause you much enthusiasm. Because 10,000 dollars, practically equivalent to 10,000 euros, can be solving the problems of many and a trifle for others. Actually, this is the difference in assessing whether it can really bring happiness.

Source: Hiper Textual

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