It doesn’t matter if you live in Brooklyn or Manhattan. You don’t even need a six-figure salary to be happy. You just need family, community and nature, according to a new study.
People in communities with little or no money are actually happier than those earning six-figure sums or more, according to the study published by the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
“Our study hints at possible ways of achieving happiness that are unrelated to high incomes and material wealth,” says Eric Galbraith, author of the study published in PLOS One. “This is important, because if we replicate these results elsewhere and can pinpoint the factors that contribute to subjective well-being, it may help us circumvent some of the environmental costs associated with achieving social well-being in the least developed nations.”
How the Study was Conducted
The study was based on 678 individuals in their mid-20s to early 50s in the Solomon Islands and Bangladesh. Both of these regions are low-income countries…