Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 1;114(31):8148-8156. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702996114. Epub 2017 Jul 13.
Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and physical health, but also encompassing happiness and life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. The empirical literature from longitudinal, experimental, and quasiexperimental studies is reviewed in attempt to identify major determinants of human flourishing, broadly conceived. Measures of human flourishing are proposed. Discussion is given to the implications of a broader conception of human flourishing, and of the research reviewed, for policy, and for future research in the biomedical and social sciences.
许多社会科学和生物医学科学的实证研究只关注非常狭窄的结果,如收入、单一特定的疾病状态或积极情绪的衡量标准。然而,人类的幸福或繁荣包括更广泛的状态和结果,当然包括身心健康,但也包括幸福和生活满意度、意义和目的、性格和美德以及亲密的社会关系。本文回顾了来自纵向、实验和准实验研究的实证文献,试图确定广义上人类繁荣的主要决定因素。提出了衡量人类繁荣的方法。讨论了更广泛的人类繁荣概念以及所审查的研究对政策和生物医学及社会科学未来研究的意义。
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