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The biometric antecedents to happiness |
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| Author: | Bökerman, Petri1,2,3; Bryson, Alex3,4,5; Viinikainen, Jutta6; |
| Organizations: |
1Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland 2Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland 3IZA, Bonn, Germany
4UCL Department of Social Science, London, United Kingdom
5NIESR, London, United Kingdom 6Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylä, Finland 7Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 8Unit of Psychology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 9Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 10Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland 11Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 12Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.3 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2017112150812 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Public Library of Science,
2017
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| Publish Date: | 2017-11-21 |
| Description: |
AbstractIt has been suggested that biological markers are associated with human happiness. We contribute to the empirical literature by examining the independent association between various aspects of biometric wellbeing measured in childhood and happiness in adulthood. Using Young Finns Study data (n = 1905) and nationally representative linked data we examine whether eight biomarkers measured in childhood (1980) are associated with happiness in adulthood (2001). Using linked data we account for a very rich set of confounders including age, sex, body size, family background, nutritional intake, physical activity, income, education and labour market experiences. We find that there is a negative relationship between triglycerides and subjective well-being but it is both gender- and age-specific and the relationship does not prevail using the later measurements (1983/1986) on triglycerides. In summary, we conclude that none of the eight biomarkers measured in childhood predict happiness robustly in adulthood. see all
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| Series: |
PLoS one |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| ISSN-E: | 1932-6203 |
| ISSN-L: | 1932-6203 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Article number: | e0184887 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0184887 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184887 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
515 Psychology 3111 Biomedicine |
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| Funding: |
The Young Finns Study has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland:
grants 286284, 134309 (Eye), 126925, 121584, 124282, 129378 (Salve), 117787 (Gendi), and
41071 (Skidi); the Social Insurance Institution of Finland; Competitive State Research Financing of
the Expert Responsibility area of Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospitals (grant X51001);
Juho Vainio Foundation; Paavo Nurmi Foundation; Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research;
Finnish Cultural Foundation; Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation; Emil Aaltonen Foundation; Yrjö
Jahnsson Foundation; Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation; and Diabetes Research Foundation of
Finnish Diabetes Association. The Palkansaaja Foundation supported the use of linked data.
Böckerman thanks the Strategic Research Council funding for the project Work, Inequality and Public
Policy (293120). Jutta Viinikainen appreciates financial support from the Yrjö Jahnsson
Foundation (grant 6664) and OP Group Research Foundation. Jaakko Pehkonen acknowledges
financial support from the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (grant 6646). |
| Copyright information: |
© 2017 Böckerman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of
the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |