幸福和竞争的意愿

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2025.102365

Karl Overdick

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摘要

本文分析了幸福感对竞争意愿（WTC）的客观度量的影响。它对895名受访者进行了两项在线实验，让他们完成真实努力的任务，从而获得不同程度的幸福感。尽管有足够的统计能力，但幸福感没有显示出显著的影响。我通过分析作为中介的行为偏好，为缺乏效果提供了一种解释。WTC与主观竞争力和任务自信高度相关。快乐并不能改变这些对竞争或完成任务的主观态度（当被问到一个人有多有竞争力或一个人能完成多少任务时的答案）。相比之下，性别作为一个公认的因素，对主观和客观WTC都有显著的影响。

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Happiness and willingness to compete

This paper analyses the effect of happiness on an objective measure of willingness to compete (WTC). It conducts two online experiments on 895 respondents with real-effort tasks eliciting WTC for different levels of happiness. Happiness shows no significant effect despite sufficient statistical power. I provide an explanation for the lack of an effect by analysing behavioural preferences as mediators. WTC is highly correlated with subjective competitiveness and task confidence. Happiness does not change these subjective attitudes towards competition or toward task completion (the answer to being asked how competitive one is or to how many tasks one will be able to do). In contrast, gender as a well-established factor shifts both subjective and objective WTC significantly.

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

113

审稿时长

83 days

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