The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Koa Health, Boston, USA.
Sci Rep. 2022 Jan 11;12(1):514. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04606-9.
It is widely assumed that the longer we spend in happier activities the happier we will be. In an intensive study of momentary happiness, we show that, in fact, longer time spent in happier activities does not lead to higher levels of reported happiness overall. This finding is replicated with different samples (student and diverse, multi-national panel), measures and methods of analysis. We explore different explanations for this seemingly paradoxical finding, providing fresh insight into the factors that do and do not affect the relationship between how happy we report feeling as a function of how long it lasts. This work calls into question the assumption that spending more time doing what we like will show up in making us happier, presenting a fundamental challenge to the validity of current tools used to measure happiness.
人们普遍认为，我们花在快乐活动上的时间越长，我们就会越快乐。在一项对瞬间幸福感的深入研究中，我们表明，事实上，花在更快乐活动上的时间并不会导致整体幸福感的提高。这一发现通过不同的样本（学生和多元化的跨国小组）、测量方法和分析方法得到了验证。我们探讨了这一看似矛盾的发现的不同解释，为影响我们报告的幸福感与持续时间之间关系的因素提供了新的见解。这项工作对花费更多时间做我们喜欢的事情会让我们更快乐的假设提出了质疑，对当前用于衡量幸福感的工具的有效性提出了根本性的挑战。
