terça-feira, junho 02, 2009
Pleasure, involvement, meaning
"Dr. Martin Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania research psychologist, [...] has boiled down true happiness to three components: pleasure (things that feel good), involvement (being immersed in things like family, work, and hobbies), and meaning (using personal strengths to serve a larger end).
Of the three, Seligman says, pleasure (the one most closely linked to material gain) is the least consequential, a finding that has been reaffirmed in numerous follow-up studies worldwide.
For example, studies by Dr. Ruut Veenhoven, a sociologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, show that the extremely poor - those earning less than $10,000 a year - may be rendered unhappy by the relentless stress of poverty. Yet [...] After a certain level of income, typically enough to meet basic expenses, money ceases to be a factor".
www.huffingtonpost.com
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Of the three, Seligman says, pleasure (the one most closely linked to material gain) is the least consequential, a finding that has been reaffirmed in numerous follow-up studies worldwide.
For example, studies by Dr. Ruut Veenhoven, a sociologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, show that the extremely poor - those earning less than $10,000 a year - may be rendered unhappy by the relentless stress of poverty. Yet [...] After a certain level of income, typically enough to meet basic expenses, money ceases to be a factor".
www.huffingtonpost.com
