有钱买不到快乐！澳大利亚研究人员日前为这个理论找到了最好的证明。他们发现，在经济繁荣的悉尼生活的居民同时也是该国最痛苦的人群之一；然而生活在一些贫困地区的人们反而对自己目前的生活状态感到更为满意。

    据法新社2月13日报道，澳大利亚迪肯大学的研究人员莉兹·埃克曼对此表示，“金钱不能买来快乐。这是我们对大约2.3万人进行调查后得出的明确结论”。

    埃克曼等人通过对被调查者的生活标准、健康状况、与他人关系、生命成就、安全保障等问题的满意程度进行评估后发现，澳大利亚最快乐的地区往往人口不多，但55岁或55岁以上年龄的男人较多、女性人口和已婚人口较多，同时这些地区的收入差距也相对较小。

    报道说，共有150个选区参与了此次调查，其中该国最为贫困的一个选区——昆士兰州的Wide Bay选区也位列该国最快乐的区域之内。

    （国际在线独家资讯 王高山）

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    Money doesn't buy happiness, and now there's a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives.

    "Only at very, very high levels does money actually have any impact to act as a buffer," said Deakin University researcher Liz Eckerman.

    "Money doesn't actually buy happiness and that's what was shown very clearly for the nearly 23,000 people we've interviewed so far," she told ABC radio.

    The findings, collated since 2001, show that while there are no extremes of well-being in Australia, the happiest areas had a lower population, more people aged 55 or over, more women, more married people and less income inequality.

    The survey assessed a person's satisfaction with their standard of living, health, relationships, life achievement, safety, community connection and future security.

    Robert Cummins, a professor of psychology at Deakin who compiled the survey's scorecard, put the difference down to the higher cost of housing and high population density in cities.

    "People in these rural electorates often have the advantage of additional disposable income since the cost of living, particularly housing, tends to be reduced outside the cities," he told The Australian newspaper.

    Of the 150 national electorates surveyed, one of the nation's poorest, Wide Bay in rural Queensland, was among the happiest.