Alternative Ethics: The Relationship between the Wealth, Welfare, Work, and Leisure Ethic
研究提出了四种关于人们如何获取金钱和支配时间的信念体系（新教工作伦理、休闲伦理、财富伦理、福利伦理），并检验了它们之间的相关性，发现新教工作伦理与休闲和福利伦理显著负相关，而财富伦理与休闲伦理正相关。
This study attempted to devise and evaluate four belief systems regarding how people acquire their money and spend their time: the Protestant Work Ethic (P WE) which emphasizes the positive feature of work, the leisure ethic which sees recreation rather than work as the main means to personalfulfillment, the wealth ethic which stresses the accumulation of wealth to ensure independence from others and work, and the welfare ethic which is based on the idea that one should exploit state benefits as a primary source of income. As predicted, the PWE was significantly negatively correlated with the leisure and welfare ethic which were themselves positively correlated. The wealth ethic was significantly correlated with the leisure ethic. Correlations between subscale scores derived from factor analysis and other related measures showed an interesting and predicted pattern of work-related beliefs. Results are discussed in terms of developing and testing belief systems associated with the PWE.