关键词: 主观幸福, 收入, 社会比较

Abstract: During China’S Reform and Open—door Process in the Past 30 Years what had been the change of people’s happiness while their income had increased rapidly? Based on the review of invovled literatures the paper quantitatively analyses the happiness change during transitional periods from 1990 to 2006 by use of World Value Survey Database and other happiness investigation.It is found that happiness had positive correlation with income in 1995,2001 and 2006.However,it was negative in 1990.This abnormality come from that income is only one factor influence happiness, not the unique one.Therefore it’s necessary to consider about many factors not only the increasing income when government wants to promote national happiness.

Key words: subjective happiness, income, social comparison