研究：上下班同路有助婚姻美滿

    分享夢想與雄心有助于營造成功的婚姻關係。

　　上下班同路也有助于婚姻美滿，盡管這聽上去不大浪漫。

　　一項研究稱，上下班同路的夫婦感覺更幸福。專家認為這讓夫婦們感覺到自己在生活中擁有更多共同目標。

　　他們說，該研究成果建議新婚夫婦考慮選擇讓兩人能上下班同行的住所，而不是選擇位于兩人工作地點中間的住所。

　　香港中文大學首席研究員艾琳 黃說，“夫婦們的婚姻滿足感可能取決于他們上下班的時候是否同路。”

　　“走向同一個與特定目標相關的方向（如一同上下班）可能與共同實現更多總體目標聯係起來。

　　他們引用了法國作家，《小王子》的作者安東尼 德 聖-埃克蘇佩裏的話：“愛不是彼此凝視，而是一起注視著同一個方向。”

　　該項研究由《實驗社會心理學雜志》出版，其中涉及兩項對在職已婚成人的調查。在調查中，研究人員詢問他們對自己婚姻的滿意度，並請他們按1分到9分的標準給自己的婚姻打分。

　　第一項調查涵蓋了美國280名成人，這些人的平均年齡為33歲，平均婚齡8年。

　　艾琳 黃和她的同事們發現，上下班同路與較高的婚姻滿意度之間有明顯的相關性。他們還發現這種相關性獨立存在于其他諸如結婚年數、子女個數、收入水平和花在上下班路上的時間等因素之外。

　　此外，這種相關性也不取決于夫婦們是否有時會一起離家上班，這意味著這種相關性並不是因為夫婦們一起上下班時有更多機會交談。

　　第二項調查在香港進行，有139位平均年齡42歲、平均婚齡13年的已婚成人參與。

　　與在美國進行的第一項調查結果相似，其上下班與高婚姻滿意度之間的相關性也獨立于其他相關因素。


        Researchers say couples who share the journey to work - or even travel separately in the same direction - tend to be happier.

　　Shared dreams and ambitions can help make a successful relationship.

　　But it seems the rather less romantic link of a shared commute can also help.

　　Married couples are happier if they travel to work in the same direction, says a study. Experts believe it makes couples feel they share wider goals in life.

　　They say the findings suggest newlyweds should consider choosing a home that requires them both to commute in one direction, rather than one located at the midway point between their two work places.

　　'Couples’ marital satisfaction can depend on whether they commute to work in the same or different directions,' said lead researcher Irene Huang, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

　　'Physically moving in a particular goal-relevant direction (e.g. commuting to work) might become associated with more general goal-related concepts.'

　　They quote the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exup岢ry, author of The Little Prince, who said: 'Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking in the same direction together.'

　　The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, involved two surveys of married working adults, with participants asked how happy they were with their marriage and how satisfied they were with their spouse on a scale of one to nine. The first survey involved 280 adults in the US, who were aged 33 on average and had been married for an average of eight years.

　　Huang and her colleagues found a clear correlation between commuting in the same direction and higher marital satisfaction. They also found that this link existed independent of other factors such as number of years married, number of children, income level and differences in actual time spent commuting.

　　Furthermore, the link did not depend on whether or not couples sometimes left home for work together, meaning it was not due to having the chance to talk together while commuting.

　　The second survey involved 139 married adults in Hong Kong, who were 42 years old on average and had been married for an average of 13 years.

　　It showed a similar correlation to the US results, which also held independent of other relevant factors.