Balance in Life and Declining Marginal Utility of Diverse Resources

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: DIENER, Ed, NG, Weiting, TOV, William
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• الموضوعات: Well-being; Happiness; Declining marginal utility; Balance; Life satisfaction; Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/736

Declining marginal utility (DMU) describes the reduced value that additional units of money or consumer goods have in comparison to units acquired earlier. We extend this idea to social resources and activities such as socializing time, free time, and number of children, suggesting that most resourc...