Are the benefits of prosocial spending and buying time moderated by age, gender, or income?
Lok and Dunn, PLOS ONE 17(6), 2022, e0269636. Survey of about 15,545 Americans from diverse economic backgrounds. Prosocial spending and buying time both linked to happiness across age, gender and income groups. People who valued time over money were happier when they used money to buy time. Gender and income did not moderate the time-buying link, which was somewhat less reliable than the prosocial spending link.
Lok and Dunn, PLOS ONE 17(6), 2022, e0269636. Survey of about 15,545 Americans from diverse economic backgrounds. Prosocial spending and buying time both linked to happiness across age, gender and income groups. People who valued time over money were happier when they used money to buy time. Gender and income did not moderate the time-buying link, which was somewhat less reliable than the prosocial spending link.
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Lok, I., & Dunn, E. W. (2022). Are the benefits of prosocial spending and buying time moderated by age, gender, or income? PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0269636. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269636 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269636