1 Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA.
2 University of Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2018 May;44(5):684-699. doi: 10.1177/0146167217744766. Epub 2018 Jan 11.
Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two primary findings: First, only at high levels of wealth-in excess of US$8 million (Study 1) and US$10 million (Study 2)-are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these differences are modest in magnitude. Second, controlling for total wealth, millionaires who have earned their wealth are moderately happier than those who inherited it. Taken together, these results suggest that, among millionaires, wealth may be likely to pay off in greater happiness only at very high levels of wealth, and when that wealth was earned rather than inherited.
两份超过 4 亿富翁的样本揭示了两个主要发现：第一，只有在非常高的财富水平（研究 1 为超过 800 万美元，研究 2 为超过 1000 万美元）之上，富有的百万富翁才会比财富较低的百万富翁更幸福，尽管这种差异在幅度上是适度的。第二，控制了总财富后，通过自己努力获得财富的百万富翁比那些继承财富的百万富翁略为幸福。总的来说，这些结果表明，在百万富翁中，财富可能只有在非常高的财富水平上，而且只有当财富是通过自己努力获得而不是继承时，才更有可能带来更大的幸福感。
