Longitudinal Evidence on Social Trust and Happiness in China: Causal Effects and Mechanisms

Lu, Haiyang; Tong, Peishan; Zhu, Rong

doi:10.1007/s10902-019-00159-x

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“…Marks (2006) also find that social capital has a significant positive impact on life satisfaction. Lu et al (2019) use instrumental variable and two‐stage residual inclusion methods to confirm the positive causal relationship between social trust and well‐being in China. Furthermore, socio‐cultural features such as crime are associated with well‐being (Borooah, 2006; Chan & Lee, 2006), and the emotional experience of daily activities also has a significant effect on people’s SWB (Gamble & Garling, 2012).…”

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The complex association between migrants’ residential community choice and subjective well‐being: Evidence from urban China

Zou

Deng

2021

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The subjective well‐being (SWB) of migrants is an important topic, while the research from the perspective of community choice is relatively rare. Using China Migrant Dynamic Survey, this study shows that migrants’ community choice is significantly positively associated with their SWB. The SWB level of migrants living in commercial housing, work unit housing, affordable housing, and urban villages is higher than migrants living in old housing communities, even after controlling endogeneity problems by using PSM and IV estimations. Based on utility theory, social capital theory, and social stratification theory, the in‐depth analysis reveals that living in different communities has varied underlying mechanisms on migrants’ SWB. Migrants living in commercial housing, work unit, and affordable housing have more local neighbors, participate in more social or community activities, spend more on local invitations and gifts. And their self‐identity is higher. These can improve their happiness level. However, migrants living in urban villages have different mechanisms, they interact more with homogenous groups (such as relatives, compatriots, or friends who migrate and work together) and seek more help from these groups, and also increase expenditures on local invitations and gifts to increase their SWB.

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The complex association between migrants’ residential community choice and subjective well‐being: Evidence from urban China

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Deng

2021

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“…Life satisfaction is a subjective assessment of quality of life in general and is an indicator of subjective well-being [ 3 , 4 ], which is seen as synonymous with happiness when it refers to how people feel and think about their lives [ 4 , 5 ]. The topics of life satisfaction and happiness are currently attracting a good deal of attention from researchers in social sciences, psychology, philosophy and economics [ 6 ]. Most researchers use the word happiness carefully to convey its particular meaning: being happy is not just about being cheerful; it is a special feeling that is precious and extremely desirable, but difficult to attain [ 2 ].…”

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“…The results of some studies indicate that lockdowns have a significant and negative impact on happiness [ 21 ]. However, there are others that report that attitudes towards the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the credibility of real-time data updates and society’s confidence in the handling of the pandemic are associated with lower levels of depression and higher levels of happiness [ 6 ].…”

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The relationship between happiness and quality of life: A model for Spanish society

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A key goal for society as a whole is the pursuit of well-being, which leads to the happiness of its individual members; as such, it is of critical socioeconomic relevance. In this regard, it is important to study which factors primarily affect the happiness of the population. In principle, these factors are associated with income level and residential and job stability, or more specifically, citizens’ quality of life. This research, which is based on a multidimensional concept of quality of life, uses a regression model to explain the dependence of Spaniards’ happiness on the well-being or quality of life provided by their work, their family situation, their income level and aspects of their place of residence, among other factors. The data were collected through an anonymous survey administered to a representative sample of Spanish citizens. The methodology used approaches the intangible concept of happiness as resulting from different individual and social causes selected from dimensions addressed in the literature, and calculates their effects or importance through regression coefficients. One of the findings is that people with the highest level of well-being or quality of life in the most important dimensions mostly claim to be happy. With respect to gender, it has a significant influence on the dimensions included in the model of citizen happiness and on personal issues. It is also shown that the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic negatively influenced the quality of life of Spanish citizens and therefore their happiness.

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“…Given that subjective well-being is a complex mental state influenced by personal factors and social conditions, several control variables at different levels needed to be taken into account to reduce the risk of statistical bias. Through a review of previous studies, it was found that individual characteristic variables, such as gender, age, age2, marriage status, registered permanent residence, education, political status, work status, sense of fairness, log of income and subjective social status, and aggregate-level variables, such as the security and population size of the community as well as economic growth and regional income levels, are significant predictors of subjective well-being [ 57 , 58 ]. This study incorporated the above variables into its model analysis.…”

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Income Inequality, Neighbourhood Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in China: Exploration of a Moderating Effect

Huang

Fang

2021

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With the continuous global rise in inequality and the growing importance of subjective welfare, the relationship between income inequality and subjective well-being has received increasing attention. This paper focuses on neighbourhood social capital, measured at the individual and community levels, to explore its moderating effect on the association between income inequality and subjective well-being in the context of China, an issue few studies have examined. Using data from the China Labour-force Dynamics Survey and multilevel models, the results show that income inequality measured using three different indicators had a stable and negative association with subjective well-being in China, after controlling for various individual characteristics and aggregate-level factors. Although neighbourhood social capital at the individual level has been proven to promote subjective well-being, a dark side of social capital is also found at the community level. More notably, neighbourhood social capital at the individual level can attenuate the negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being, especially for vulnerable groups, such as those with low income or low education. How to reasonably guide the community to develop social capital is an important policy implication to attenuate the negative psychological experience of income inequality.

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Longitudinal Evidence on Social Trust and Happiness in China: Causal Effects and Mechanisms

Cited by 43 publications

References 50 publications

The complex association between migrants’ residential community choice and subjective well‐being: Evidence from urban China

The complex association between migrants’ residential community choice and subjective well‐being: Evidence from urban China

The relationship between happiness and quality of life: A model for Spanish society

Income Inequality, Neighbourhood Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in China: Exploration of a Moderating Effect

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