Is there happiness in money? An attitudinal study of native Lithuanian speakers

IF 2.1 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics & Sociology Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.14254/2071-789x.2023/16-1/3

Tomas Kačerauskas, Ilona Valantinaitė

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Abstract

The paper considers the different notions of happiness known since antiquity, such as the Greek concepts of harmonia, eudaimonia, makarioi, and hēdonē, and explores the factors of happiness. The aim of this research is to form a more complete understanding of Lithuanian speakers and their attitude(s) towards happiness. The research surveyed 210 Lithuanian speakers aged 15 to 35 who were residing in Lithuania, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The analysis shows that today people’s individualism reveals itself through gender differences. The list of factors determining happiness is shorter for men than it is for women, and men have one distinctive factor for happiness – friends. The respondents of both genders valued health, family and love the highest, however, the other factors for happiness reveal gender differences. Women need several happiness-determining factors at the same time, which conforms to the psychological nature of women as gatherers, whereas men create their happiness in a more specific, more focused and less scattered way.

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金钱能带来幸福吗?对母语为立陶宛语的人的态度研究

本文考虑了自古以来已知的不同的幸福概念，如希腊的harmonia, eudaimonia, makarioi和hēdonē，并探讨了幸福的因素。这项研究的目的是形成一个更全面的了解立陶宛语使用者和他们对幸福的态度。这项研究调查了居住在立陶宛、法国、瑞典和联合王国的210名年龄在15至35岁之间说立陶宛语的人。分析表明，今天人们的个人主义是通过性别差异体现出来的。决定男人幸福的因素比女人要少，而男人的幸福有一个独特的因素——朋友。无论男女，受访者都最看重健康、家庭和爱情，然而，其他影响幸福的因素则显示出性别差异。女人同时需要几个决定幸福的因素，这符合女人作为采集者的心理本质，而男人则以更具体、更集中、更少分散的方式创造自己的幸福。

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Economics & Sociology ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.70%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

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