Gain and happiness
Researchers found, that happiness and mental health of people, who won at least $100 000 in the lottery, have not changed significantly, and, contrary to popular belief, there was no evidence, that it made any of the participants less happy.
Generally, winning resulted in positive long-term satisfaction, at the same time, there is a connection between satisfaction with one's financial situation and long-term satisfaction in general life.
“Winners who won the big prize, get a steady increase in life satisfaction, which lasts for over ten years, there is no evidence, that it dissipates over time ", - says the study.
Based on materials - time.com
Wealth preservation
Research on, how unexpected winnings affect the winner, recently completed in Sweden, and it refutes the long-standing myth about the sad fate of such people. In this paper, we considered 3 362 lottery winner, winners over 100 000 dollars, and the level of their well-being through 5-20 years after receiving this money.
Most of the lottery winners, winners of large sums (from 100 000 to 2 million dollars) kept their wealth and ten years after winning.
One of the co-authors of the study, Dr. Daniel Cesarini, Professor of Economics, New York University, suggests, what if you study American history, winners of multi-million dollar prizes, then the results will not differ much from the Swedish examples:
"Hard to say, will the results be different, if we do research in America ", - he said. "I suppose, that they will not be radically different. There are some examples of, what money gives in the United States more (compared to Sweden), eg, health care, but i would not be shocked, if someone had done a similar study in the US and reached similar conclusions "
According to Cesari, opinion about, that many winners will squander their wealth, is wrong. He adds: - “We invariably see, that they work a little less, but spending money is quite reasonable. This does not mean, that none of them struggled with the problem of self-control and did not use money in this way, which is not in their best interests. Also, the scientist adds, that the behavior of lottery winners is much more rational, how can this be imagined when reading some stories in the media.
At all, distortion of information about the fate of lottery winners occurs most often as a result of the nature of the media themselves - people like to read scandalous news about exorbitant spending, rather than a calm story about, how people were able to reasonably dispose of unexpected money for them.
