The Contextual Effects of Political Trust on Happiness: Evidence from China

Fu, Xiwen

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1721-2

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“…For this reason, it is worth to know whether living in a place with higher political trust is linked to higher individual subjective well-being. If so, improving governance as a means of earning increased public trust is not only good for institutional reasons, but also beneficial to the daily lives of people within society (Fu, 2018).…”

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Government performance, political trust, and citizen subjective well-being: evidence from rural China

Dong

Kübler

2021

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Government performance, political trust, and citizen subjective well-being: evidence from rural China

Dong

Kübler

2021

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“…As China has no such thing as conservative or liberal political parties, scholars have applied various political factors to investigate the political influence on happiness in the country. For instance, using the 2012 East Asian Social Survey , Fu [57] indicated that people’s political attitudes or behaviors may exert an influence on happiness. However, very few studies have directly examined whether political attitudes and political participation can predict happiness in China.…”

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Who Is Happier in China? Exploring Determinant Factors Using Religion as a Moderator

Sun

Zhang

2019

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The relationship between religion and happiness has been seriously understudied in non-Western and non-Islamic societies. Taking religious identity and religious practice as strata, the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data were used to examine the predicting power of health, politics, and social relationships with regard to happiness in four different groups, as follows: People with a religious identity and practice, people with no religious identity but with a practice, people with a religious identity but no practice, and people with neither a religious identity nor practice. Multiple regression analyses were conducted using the Ordinary Least Squares method. The results demonstrate the influence of the independent variables in the four groups, thus confirming the expectation that different religious practices, as well as identities, play a vital role in moderating the degree of happiness. Physical and mental health are significant predictors of happiness regardless of different religious situations, with the effect of mental health here found to be greater in magnitude on happiness than that of physical health. Political participation was not found to be related to happiness, but having a left-wing political attitude did emerge as strongly predicting happiness. The results concerning social relationships further consolidate the hypothesis that religious practice should be taken into consideration separately from religious identity. This study indicates the importance of further investigating religious practice as an independent factor in religious studies in the context of Chinese society.

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“…If trust is good, i.e. it has a socially desirable content (Levi 1996), then it provides the cultural basis for achieving democratic governance, economic prosperity and the well-being of individuals (Putnam 1993;Fukuyama 1999;Knack 2002;Dasgupta 2005;Growiec and Growiec 2016;Fu 2018).…”

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“…The qualities of a national civic culture are, thus, illustrative paradigms of the levels of cooperation and competition, freedom and sanctioning or, else, of the way in which trust (or distrust) has been embedded in the rules underlying power and authority to all members and groups of the society (Tabellini 2008(Tabellini , 2010Tabellini and Harari 2009;Fukuyama 1999). Therefore, when analysing trust, and its determinants, we should better acknowledge it as a context specific phenomenon (Glanville and Paxton 2007) embedded in an overwhelming diversity of national-level societal frameworks (Pichler and Wallace 2007;Bjørnskov 2007;Wagner et al 2009;Fu 2018).…”

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Individual-Level Evidence on the Causal Relationship Between Social Trust and Institutional Trust

Daskalopoulou

2018

Soc Indic Res

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The study accounts for the presence of endogeneity in the interdependence between social and institutional trust. Using Greece as a case study we provide valuable insights regarding the bidirectional nature of this relationship and its sign. Consequently, more accurate results might be provided regarding the determinants of both types of trust and the way in which these may be discerned in a given society. We use microdata extracted from the European Values Surveys (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) and instrumental variables techniques. Social trust is constructed as a three-item scale variable comprising generalized trust, fairness and helpfulness. The institutional trust variable is constructed as the sum of seven variables referring to trust in political institutions, civil security institutions and, supranational political institutions. In line with the hypothesis formed here, the results indicate the presence of endogeneity in the social and institutional trust interrelationship. When accounted for, this endogeneity entails different results as regards the sign of the effect that institutional trust exerts upon social trust, which turns from positive to negative. The study contributes to the limited empirical knowledge regarding the micro level two-way causal relationship between social trust and institutional trust. The study's findings provides us with a more informative and accurate picture of the underlying dynamics of building trust in a society. Important research and policy level issues draw from these findings.

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The Contextual Effects of Political Trust on Happiness: Evidence from China

Cited by 21 publications

References 57 publications

Government performance, political trust, and citizen subjective well-being: evidence from rural China

Government performance, political trust, and citizen subjective well-being: evidence from rural China

Who Is Happier in China? Exploring Determinant Factors Using Religion as a Moderator

Individual-Level Evidence on the Causal Relationship Between Social Trust and Institutional Trust

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