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What Makes You Happier, Money or Respect?

SodaHead Living 2012/06/22 18:00:00
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Was it Lil' Kim who rapped the lyrics "Money power respect... It's the key to life"? Turns out, she was only partly right. New research suggests happiness has a lot more to do with respect than it does with money, Medical News Today reports.

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In a series of studies, psychological scientist Cameron Anderson of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, found that:

1) Respect and admiration, but not socioeconomic status, predicted students' social well-being. 2) The relationship between respect/admiration and well-being was partly due to the sense of power and social acceptance that the students felt in their personal relationships. And 3) Changes in respect/admiration corresponded to changes in MBA students' well-being. And respect/admiration predicted well-being more strongly than socioeconomic status.

"I was surprised at how fluid these effects were -- if someone's [social] standing in their local ladder went up or down, so did their happiness, even over the course of 9 months," said Anderson. What makes you happier: money or respect?
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  • jackie 2012/06/22 23:25:40 (edited)
    Money
    jackie
    +16
    Im a loner. People always had bad opinions of me and talked about me.

    some people like it when you are poor and pathetic like them, but when you get some money they all hate.

    thats what stop some people from being successful. because of what other people think.

    let them hate. they can

    kiss my ass

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  • uninfor... tatilee(: 2012/06/25 00:00:02
    uninformedluddite
    That sure is a low value to put on respect
  • Freeranger 2012/06/23 20:38:35
    Respect
    Freeranger
    Funny how we seldom identify the two positively in the same sentence huh?
  • Sam DePecan 2012/06/23 20:34:49
    Money
    Sam DePecan
    +1
    Respect means NOTHING anymore.
  • sherie 2012/06/23 20:32:43
    Money
    sherie
    +3
    Damn.....ya mean I cant have both!!!?....unfortunately respect wont pay my bills :(
  • Rukasaki ~~ Hawkshadow 2012/06/23 20:28:04
    Respect
    Rukasaki ~~ Hawkshadow
    since i never get any...
  • Margaret Jacobson 2012/06/23 20:15:32
    Money
    Margaret Jacobson
    I have heard of millionaires in baltimore city giving their money to the city in trust funds..ALL over baltimore city there buildings the the name of the donors "harry and jeanette weinberg" EVERYWHERE. On hospitals, clinics, recreation centers, shelters, handicapped and senior housing. they are dead .......but their money keeps giving back to the community !! LONG LIVE THE MONEY !!
  • American☆Atheist 2012/06/23 20:14:54
    Money
    American☆Atheist
    I don't care what people think of me
  • NEVER F... America... 2012/06/24 02:47:55
  • America... NEVER F... 2012/06/24 04:51:01
    American☆Atheist
    +1
    Who is everyone, and how can they thing me?
  • Bocephus 2012/06/23 19:51:30
    Money
    Bocephus
    +1
    And it makes my family happy also. You can't buy food with respect. money falling from sky
  • thewickedrobot 2012/06/23 19:50:32
    Money
    thewickedrobot
    I can be respected any day, however, you can't be respected in baggy clothes and shirts with stains and holes in them. You need money to buy clothes to look respectable, at least.

    Regardless of that, the Kardashians have money over respect and they seem to be doing well for themselves...
  • drdos1943 2012/06/23 19:49:50 (edited)
    Money
    drdos1943
    +1
    Money, of course? If you do the right thing with the money, you will get the respect....and then have both.
  • bennett.dunn1 2012/06/23 19:43:41
    Money
    bennett.dunn1
    Ideally a combination of both, but if it were a questio of life and death, money would probably get me further, rather sadly :p
  • Cal 2012/06/23 18:50:32
    Money
    Cal
    Lets be honest. Respect is awesome.....but I'm poor as hell. I could use the cash.
  • Watts 2012/06/23 18:40:36
    Respect
    Watts
    +1
    well, I've never had money, but money & respect can both be earned, but money doesn't bring happiness, I earned loads or my family, at one stage, I lived where I worked, I was paying my mothers, sister & her husbands & my fathers mortgages, they wanted more, whilst I was earning vast amounts of money from my business, but because I was paying one more than the other, they all thought it was unfair, because they didn't have their own way, they bankrupted me, so money, if I got it I got it, if I haven't, well, I haven't life goes on....... Respect on the other hand means that I have friends, people that I respect & respect me
  • uninfor... Watts 2012/06/25 00:04:12 (edited)
    uninformedluddite
    I am stone broke today. i can go out into the garden and eat. I can smile at the world. Laugh at myself and enjoy myself with friends that I didn't have to purchase. i will take that over a wad of cash any day. I will feel fulfilled and happy on my deathbed and be surrounded by people wishing me well and who aren't racking their brains trying to work out what they deserve from my estate.
    Note: I am not a god botherer so my peace of mind isn't due to misguided beliefs.
  • Watts uninfor... 2012/06/25 06:09:27
    Watts
    we are all rich in the way that we all have a mind, imagination, we can all go out, breathe in the air, see all that is around us, like you say, we have friends, money, like possessions are all just things, we come on here with nothing, we go out with nothing, we all have life
  • teamboobooseth 2012/06/23 18:13:21
    Respect
    teamboobooseth
    Respect is earned not given.
  • Christ0212 2012/06/23 18:12:55
    Money
    Christ0212
    +3
    In this society you can not get respect with out money, disgusting as it may sound.
  • uninfor... Christ0212 2012/06/25 00:04:55
  • Donna 2012/06/23 17:59:39
    Respect
    Donna
    ...in the bedroom.
  • Silent Bob 2012/06/23 17:56:18
    Money
    Silent Bob
    +2
    Money can get you respect.
    What if you donated it?
    What if you used it to buy food for the homeless?
    Think outside the box people.
  • Chris D 2012/06/23 17:44:46
    Money
    Chris D
    As long as the money doesn't come with disrespect...I'll take the cash please Bob
  • edifyguy 2012/06/23 17:34:52
    Respect
    edifyguy
    Though I would point out that if you have respect, the money will follow!
  • LoneWulfStud 2012/06/23 17:33:58
    Money
    LoneWulfStud
    +2
    I don't live my life according to what people think about me... I don't care to get respect from anybody... If you give it... Fine... If you don't... Fine... I have self respect... People are haters anyway...

    I'm always happier when I can afford to pay all my bills and be able to splurge on myself afterwards...

    Just know I'm gonna be happy buying that new "whatever the hell I want" with my money... while the rest of y'all are waiting for others to give you respect...

    Enjoy your cheap thrills folks... Dayum..
  • PatBB LoneWul... 2012/06/23 17:42:44
    PatBB
    IMO you're confusing approval with respect.
  • Anthony... PatBB 2012/06/23 19:33:16
    Anthonysolares
    how do you know when is approval and when it isnt that your being aproved by what people think??
    do you think all rich people that live in rich neighboorhoods where approved ??
    no they live there becasue they can and me moving in there wouldnt be being accepted for what i got its just me being able to buy a house there .. people are not gonna think mmmm where did he get his money from is he a respected person?? no theres just gona respect you for living there and your money
    or would you think that a honest person that loaned money to the bank and buy a hose next to theirs and people is gonna get you respect that a easy example and there are many thats true and thats life man money is like god
  • Anthony... LoneWul... 2012/06/23 19:25:36
    Anthonysolares
    thats true man people respect people that have money if your poor then your s#it but if you have money the you get admired for example wow look at that guys car its awesome by that your respecting the dude and another example your on a beat up toyota of shame and your a respected person people are gonna be like dude speed it up grandma girls are gona be like eww hes lookig at me
    so i agree with what you say man rich gets respect so money is everything
    and money gets you happyness girls everything
    money is everything
    repeat that people
  • Calm down! 2012/06/23 17:31:58
    Money
    Calm down!
    Cold hard flippin cash man!
  • Elizabeth 2012/06/23 17:19:28
    Respect
    Elizabeth
    But I would also LUV money. Money and respect is my power!!!!! XDDDD
  • rockyjr5 2012/06/23 17:14:00
    Respect
    rockyjr5
    +1
    It's always good to have money, but money can't buy you everything.
  • exsecrare 2012/06/23 16:54:16
    Money
    exsecrare
    +1
    Because you can totally buy respect. "Ey Jimmy, this prick needs his legs broke, here's a grand."
  • Wolfie 2012/06/23 16:44:32
    Respect
    Wolfie
    +1
    Ehh We all know the old quote: "Money can't buy happiness".
  • hat man Wolfie 2012/06/23 19:50:03
    hat man
    +3
    The person who said so obviously did not have enough money. LOL.
  • Kurbdog hat man 2012/06/23 21:40:15
  • Red hat man 2012/06/25 15:00:53
  • wisecracker 2012/06/23 16:43:49
    Money
    wisecracker
    +1
    Not totally, but it helps
  • Bob 2012/06/23 16:43:38
    Respect
    Bob
    All the money in the world can't buy you respect
  • wisecra... Bob 2012/06/23 16:45:09
    wisecracker
    Tell that to Donny trump...really he needs to hear it!
  • teamboo... Bob 2012/06/23 18:14:36
    teamboobooseth
    I agree. Respect is earned not given.

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