紐約時報：金錢和時間，哪一樣會帶來更大的幸福感？

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What Should You Choose: Time or Money?

Which would lead to greater happiness — the money or the time?

金錢和時間，哪一樣會帶來更大的幸福感？

For a research project, we put this question to more than 4,000 Americans of different ages, income levels, occupations and marital and parental status. In a paper in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, which we wrote with our student Uri Barnea, we found that most people valued money more than time. Sixty-four percent of the 4,415 people we asked in five surveys chose money.

為了開展研究，我們把這一問題拋給了年齡、收入水平、職業、婚育狀況各異的逾4000名美國人。我們和學生烏里·巴爾內亞(Uri Barnea)共同撰寫了一篇論文，發表在了《社會心理與人格科學》期刊(Social Psychological and Personality Science)上。我們發現，大多數人更珍視金錢，而非時間。五次調查中的4415名受訪者，有64%選擇了金錢。

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Is money the right choice? We had also asked our survey respondents to report their level of happiness and life satisfaction. We found that the people who chose time were on average statistically happier and more satisfied with life than the people who chose money.

選擇金錢是正確的嗎？我們還讓受訪者報告了幸福程度和生活滿意度。我們發現，平均而言，選擇時間的人比選擇金錢的人更幸福，對生活也更滿意。

More income is positively related to happiness up to a certain point ($75,000, in the United States) and that life satisfaction continues to increase with income beyond that point.

收入達到一定高度之前（在美國為每年7.5萬美元），收入水平和幸福程度呈正相關；收入達到那個高度之後，生活滿意度仍會隨著收入水平的提高而上升。

We must earn that extra pay to make ends meet.

我們必須賺更多錢，好維持收支平衡。

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the people who chose time were on average statistically happier and more satisfied with life than the people who chose money.

平均而言，選擇時間的人比選擇金錢的人更幸福，對生活也更滿意。

The people who chose time over money thought about the resources differently and had different intentions for how they would spend the time or money gained. people who chose time focused more on how they would spend it, planning to 「spend」 on wants rather than needs (e.g., cultivating a hobby versus completing chores at home) and on other people rather than themselves.

選擇時間而非金錢的人，會用不同的角度看待這兩種資源，對如何花掉自己獲得的時間或金錢會有不同的想法。選擇時間的人更看重的是，如果花掉時間，他們會想要把它花在所願而非所需上面（例如，是培養一種愛好還是在家做家務），花在其他人而非自己身上。