幸福

Divorce can make you happy
祕訣6:離婚讓人幸福?


人們可以辯稱,離婚必定讓人們感到幸福,因爲人們只有在離婚的益處超過成本時纔會離婚。這就引出一個重要問題:離婚前後那段時期,人們的幸福感會發生什麼變化?

At any given point in time, those who are divorced tend to report, on average, significantly lower levels of happiness than people who are married. While this result is probably unsurprising to many people, such cross-sectional comparisons between two groups of individuals at the same point in time can often lead to severely misleading conclusions – in this case, that divorce makes people unhappy.

研究發現,平均而言,在任何一個指定時間點,離婚人士報告的幸福感往往比已婚人士低得多。儘管這種結果可能在許多人的意料之中,但在同一時間點對兩組個體進行的此類代表性抽樣比較,經常會導致嚴重誤導性的結論——就本例而言,就是離婚讓人們不幸福。

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