一位来自加州大学的心理学家,索尼娅柳博米尔斯基,为了弄清这件事情,决定在研究现存文献的同时,也亲自组织一些实验。她研究的结果,《心理科学》上刚发表了不久。研究结果显示,总体上来说,为人父母,的确是会受到祝福的,即便那些受访的父母很多时候觉得可能自己在接受调查时伪装了些东西。
Dr Lyubomirskys first port of call was the World Values Survey.This is a project which gathers huge amounts of data about the lives of people all around the planet.For the purposes of her research, Dr Lyubomirsky looked at the answers 6,906 Americans had given, in four different years, to four particular questions.These were: how many children the responder had; how satisfied he was with life; how happy he was;and how often he thought about the meaning and purpose of life.She found that, regardless of the year the survey was conducted, parents had higher happiness, satisfaction and meaning-of-life scores than non-parents.The differences were not huge,but they were statistically significant.
首先,柳博米尔斯基博士从世界价值观大调查开始着手。这是个浩大的工程,用来收集海量的居住在这个星球各个角落里的人的数据。柳博米尔斯基博士从这些数据中调出了6,906份来自美国的数据,用以进行她的研究。这些数据从四个不同的年份里收集获得,涉及了四个方面不同的问题。这四个方面是:受访者有多少子女;他对自己的生活有多大程度的满足感;他的快乐感多大;以及他多少次思考过生活的意义和目标。结果她发现,剔除调查的年份因素之后,为人父母的人群比非父母人群具有更高的快乐感和满足感,生活意义项的得分值也更高。这些数据的差别其实并不明显,但是从统计学的角度来看,其意义却非常重大。
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