Freedom More Important than Wealth

It feels more and more things that prove the truth of wise sentence which reads "money can not buy everything". From the results of research in 63 countries revealed that people who have the freedom tend to be healthier and happier than people who have a lot of money.

That's why, experts say, to reduce the negative psychological symptoms, may provide opportunities for each individual to be free to actualize themselves far more important. Thus the conclusion of a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"These findings give us new insights that health problems at the community level are not always related to money," said the researchers from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

In his research, Ronald Fischer and Diana Boer, who works as a psychologist, made ​​three different psychological tests to 420 599 people from 63 countries who participated in this study.

In short, they discover that wealth is only an impact on one's personal pleasure only, but does not add to the health or happiness.

"From the results of such tests, we observed a consistent and robust findings that the social values ​​of individualism is the best predictor of health," he said.