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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Dr. Richard Grossman on June 27, 2011, 10:53:40 PM

Title: Autonomy is more important than money in the search for happiness
Post by: Dr. Richard Grossman on June 27, 2011, 10:53:40 PM

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

Title: Re: Autonomy is more important than money in the search for happiness
Post by: Guest on June 28, 2011, 08:43:10 AM

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! :P

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