According to the results of a new study, money cannot buy happiness and won't relieve stress. The more money you have the more stressed you are and the less time you spend enjoying yourself. That's what Princeton University economist Alan B. Krueger and psychologist and Daniel Kahneman, who developed a tool to measure the quality of daily life known as the Day Reconstruction Method, or DRM, which creates an enjoyment scale by requiring people to record the previous day's activities and describe their feelings about the experiences, report regarding the link to happiness and affluence. Those who earned less than $20,000 a year spent far less time in a bad mood, and far more time involved in leisure activity, then those that made over $100,000. And the voice inside my head shouted, wait a minute! Who were the researchers talking to? If you are one of the 45 million working poor who cannot afford health insurance, how stress-free are you? If you get sick, and cannot afford the treatments you know are out there and available, but you don't have the money to pay for the treatments, how stress-free, happy and content can you possibly be? How much of your free time will you spend in leisure activity when all you can think of is not being able to get well, or a loved one suffering needlessly because good medical treatment cannot be financially afforded and their health is deteriorating as a result? Just a few quick questions that came to mind when I read the news of the study.
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Posted at 6:46PM on Jul 11th 2006 by linda hughes