Autonomy is more important than money in the search for happiness

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Hi everybody,

I thought this article by Laura Rowley was interesting and important:

Freedom More Important to Well-Being Than Money

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112994/freedom-autonomy-money-happiness

If you’d like to plow through the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article that provided the data, here it is:

What Is More Important for National Well-Being: Money or Autonomy?
A Meta-Analysis of Well-Being, Burnout, and Anxiety Across 63 Societies
by Ronald Fischer and Diana Boer

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-101-1-164.pdf

Richard

[Guest]

One quote jumped out at me: "I'm in a unique position.....". It reminds me of a quick scene in SFU: Brenda is lazily browsing the self-help titles in a bookstore and picks out a book called:

'My boyfriend has a brain tumour and my brother's schizophrenic'

(or similar, whatever it was, it matched her situation completely).

I guess we are all in unique positions....or not!

Re: the subject, what we believe to be autonomy for us probably matters a lot. One person's 'freedom' may be another's prison.