Overall Jeffrey, Gedeon Steven
Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada.
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Philos Manag. 2023;22(1):51-72. doi: 10.1007/s40926-022-00207-2. Epub 2022 Jul 29.
The fields of positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and goal-setting have all demonstrated that individuals can modify their beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors to improve their subjective happiness. But which ethical beliefs affect happiness positively? In comparison to ethical belief systems such as deontology, consequentialism, and altruism, rational egoism appears to be alone in suggesting that an individual's long-term self-interest and subjective happiness is possible, desirable, and moral. Albeit an important theoretical foundation of the rational egoism philosophy, the relationship between rational egoism and subjective happiness has yet to be investigated empirically. Using (Overall and Gedeon, Business and Professional Ethics. 38:43-78, 2018) 24-item rational egoism scale, we test this relationship on a random sample of 534 full-time American workers using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Consistent with rational egoism theory, the main contribution to knowledge of this research is finding a statistically significant relationship between rational egoism and subjective happiness. Implications for practice and areas for future study are suggested.
积极心理学、认知行为疗法、正念和目标设定等领域都表明，个体可以改变自己的信念、态度、意图和行为，以提升主观幸福感。但哪些道德信念会对幸福感产生积极影响呢？与义务论、后果主义和利他主义等道德信念体系相比，合理利己主义似乎是唯一认为个人的长期自身利益和主观幸福感是可能的、可取的且符合道德的理论。尽管合理利己主义哲学有重要的理论基础，但合理利己主义与主观幸福感之间的关系尚未得到实证研究。我们使用（奥弗拉尔和格迪恩，《商业与职业伦理》。第38卷：第43 - 78页，2018年）24项合理利己主义量表，通过偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS - SEM）对534名美国全职员工的随机样本进行测试，以检验这种关系。与合理利己主义理论一致，本研究对知识的主要贡献在于发现了合理利己主义与主观幸福感之间具有统计学意义的关系。文中还提出了对实践的启示和未来研究的方向。
