Brulé Gaël, Veenhoven Ruut
Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization, Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738, 3000DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
North West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.
Soc Indic Res. 2017;131(2):853-870. doi: 10.1007/s11205-016-1265-x. Epub 2016 Mar 30.
Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: 'all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to 10?'. The responses typically follow a uni-modal distribution with highest frequencies between 5 and 8. Yet in some nations, the percentage of 10 responses stands out and is higher than the percentage of 9 responses. This is particularly present in Latin America and in the Middle East. In this paper we explore the prevalence of the '10-excess' pattern and check some possible explanations. We conclude that the 10-excess phenomenon is partly due to cultural influence.
在各国，幸福感通常是通过调查中的一个单一问题来衡量的。一个常见的问题是：“综合考虑所有因素，这些天你对你的整体生活有多满意或不满意，从0到10打分？”。回答通常呈现单峰分布，最高频率出现在5到8之间。然而，在一些国家，打10分的回答比例突出，且高于打9分的回答比例。这在拉丁美洲和中东地区尤为明显。在本文中，我们探讨了“10分过高”模式的普遍性，并研究了一些可能的解释。我们得出结论，10分过高现象部分是由于文化影响。
