“Sometimes things that really matter most are not conducive to short-term happiness, ” said Carol Ryff, the director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校衰老研究院院长Carol Ryff说，“有时候真正重要的东西并不能带来短期幸福感”。

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"Sometimes things that really matter most are not conducive to short-term happiness, " says Carol Ryff, a professor and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

WSJ: University of Wisconsin Study Finds Eudaimonic Happiness Lessens the 'Bite' of Risk Factors for Disease

Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.

WSJ: University of Wisconsin Study Finds Eudaimonic Happiness Lessens the 'Bite' of Risk Factors for Disease