The highest earners are the happiest in Finland Hs.fi
Living conditions|Dissatisfaction is the most common one among the lowest income, while the most highly high -income is most common. According to researchers, not only money is in the background.
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More than 40 % of the highest earners are very pleased with their lives, with only a quarter of the lowest income.
Generally, the number of Finns, which are very satisfied with their lives, has been declining in recent years.
Professor Pekka Räsänen, a professor at the University of Turku, says that educated people are typically better, healthier and more active.
Finnish has been poking from year to year The happiest country in the world The title, but rarely talk about how the gifts of happiness are not even in the ranks of the people.
Namely, Finns' satisfaction with their own lives varies greatly between income groups.
More than 40 % of those of the fifth of the most high -income are very pleased with their lives, according to Statistics Finland, published on Thursday from living statistics.
On the other hand, only a quarter of the lowest -income fifth are very satisfied.
Measured by average, the most satisfied ones are even higher -earners, the most high -income tenth, says the statistical overtime Kaisa-Mari Okkonen.
Dissatisfaction, on the other hand, is the most common among the lowest income.
The answers of high -income earners show many other things that distinguish their living conditions from others. The confidence of the highest earners in fellow human beings is at a higher level of low -income people, and their experience of their own health is better than others.
Statistics Finland has been collecting information on living conditions by the European Union decree since 2013. It has been desired to start asking citizens as well, as other well -being measures have been needed in addition to GDP.
At the EU level it seems that the lower the average satisfaction of life in the country, the greater the differences between the low and high earners, says Okkonen.
Incomes The relationship with satisfaction has been studied for a long time, and similar results have been obtained in other studies.
Deaconia Polytechnic Researcher Sakari Kainulainen In 2018 The research article says that « the income available in everyday life strongly correlates with happiness ».
For low -income earners, additional income brings more pleasure, while high -income people increase experience in life, Kainulainen writes.
So can it be said that money brings happiness?
After all, this does not appear directly from the statistics. Although high -income responses are distinguished, it cannot be directly said that satisfaction is precisely due to the amount of income.
However, income allows for things, that is, money can build the life you want and can afford hobbies and services.
In the background, there is a broader socio -economic status of a person, consisting not only in revenue, property and housing, in addition to education, profession and position in working life.
« The most educated people are the most satisfied, and senior staff are more satisfied than lower employees, and the same goes according to income, » says Pekka RäsänenProfessor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turku.
According to researchers, satisfaction in life does not increase unlimited as income increases. There is a sufficient level of income with a relative and variable concept.
“In today's world, the sufficient income level through social media and other things has been a bit different to what it has been before,” says Räsänen.
Altogether The proportion of people who are very satisfied with their lives in Finland has been declining. The proportion was at its highest in 2017, when the number of dissatisfaction was the lowest statistical period.
An increase in the dissatisfaction of young people, ie 16-25 years of age, is noteworthy. Age group was at its happiest In 2016, when over 48 percent were very satisfied and only 5.9 percent dissatisfied.
Last year, only about one third of the young people were very pleased, and almost 15 % were dissatisfied.
At the same time, the perceived livelihoods of Finns have increased for the third year in a row. Fresh According to the statistics too The number of people at risk of poverty or exclusion has increased.
Exclusion is one of the important variables linked to satisfaction, says Räsänen.
« The most dissatisfied people are those who experience loneliness. »
Here, too, we return to matters enabled by money, such as hobbies, tourism, cultural experiences and other leisure activities.
High -income The experience of one's own health is better than others, which can also influence the experience of satisfaction.
Räsänen opens up that better offenses are more advanced to health services than the lowest income services, and for the big income, private health care is more accessible.
In general, employees receive better services than public health care through occupational health.
In Finland, good income is still due to education.
“Educated people are typically better and more healthier and more active,” says Räsänen.
There are also more people among the high earners whose confidence in fellow human beings is very strong.
Again, Räsänen sees the role of education in the background, which influences people's life experiences and experiences of how to work with other people.
