Assessing the effects of haze pollution on subjective well-being based on Chinese General Social Survey

Using pooled data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015, this study investigated the relationship between partners’ educational pairings and subjective well-being among Chinese. Diagonal mobility models were employed to avoid conflating the effect of each partner’s education and the effect of the difference in education between partners. The findings reveal that regarding the well-being consequences of partners’ educational pairings, the hypothesis of satisfaction with marrying up outweighs the hypothesis of educational homogamy advantages and the hypothesis of sex roles. Specifically, for both women and men, persons marrying up in education are more likely to feel happy than their educationally homogamous counterparts. Moreover, educational hypergamy confers more psychological benefits to women in high-income communities than those in low-income communities. In addition, the earnings difference between partners plays a part in men’s SWB. Husbands who earn less than their wives are more likely to be unhappy than those whose earnings are 1–1.5 times those of their wives, suggesting that sex-role norms are at work. Our study contributes to a deeper understanding of the well-being consequences of educational heterogamy.

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Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Review of Religious Research ◽

10.2307/3512578 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 116 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Steven E. Barkan ◽

Susan F. Greenwood

Keyword(s):

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

Religious Attendance ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Social Survey ◽

Older Americans

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Internet Use, Life Satisfaction, and Subjective Well-Being Among the Elderly: Evidence From 2017 China General Social Survey

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.677643 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Hua-lei Yang ◽

Yuan-yang Wu ◽

Xue-yu Lin ◽

Lin Xie ◽

Shuo Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Internet Use ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

The Elderly ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

The Internet ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Social Survey

Purpose: The research objectives of this study are to test the scientific propositions of whether Internet use promotes life satisfaction among the elderly, whether there is variability in the effect of Internet use on the well-being of the elderly, and through what channels Internet use affects the elderly's life satisfaction.Method: Using data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), this paper employed linear regression, ordered logit model, and the propensity score matching (PSM) approach to investigate the association of Internet use with life satisfaction among the elderly in China.Results: The results show that Internet use was significantly and negatively associated with the life satisfaction of the Chinese elderly. Further analysis on group heterogeneity demonstrates that the negative association was more prominent among the participants who were males, at a lower age, had lower income and education, non-agricultural registered, and relatively healthy. Finally, the mediating effect indicates that Internet use may affect life satisfaction among the elderly through the channel of reducing their perceptions of social justice.Conclusions: In order to avoid the negative effects of using the Internet, the following policy suggestions are put forward: Improve the elderly's attitudes toward Internet use; pay attention to the sense of fairness of the elderly to improve life satisfaction; guide the elderly to reduce the time of using the Internet.

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Intergenerational mobility and subjective well-being—Evidence from the general social survey

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ◽

10.1016/j.socec.2014.08.005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 82-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Boris Nikolaev ◽

Ainslee Burns

Keyword(s):

Intergenerational Mobility ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Social Survey

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How Does New-Type Urbanization Affect the Subjective Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents? Evidence from 28 Provinces of China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313098 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13098

Author(s):

Chu Li ◽

Jinming Yan ◽

Ze Xu

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Probit Model ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Household Registration ◽

Registration System ◽

New Type ◽

The Government ◽

Chinese General Social Survey

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020) put forward the novel principle of “people-oriented” policy. Has the Chinese government’s plan achieved the expected results? To answer this question, the present study evaluates the impacts of New-type Urbanization on the subjective well-being (SWB) of residents. Based on the IV Ordered Probit Model and the data of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we determined that (1) living in cities has a positive impact on SWB, and this impact is significant at a statistical level of 1%; (2) urban household registration (hukou) has no significant impact on SWB; and (3) “Gender”, “Income”, “Job”, “Politics”, “Education”, “Marriage”, and “Health” have significant effects on SWB. To improve residents’ SWB, the government should enhance the attractiveness of the city and significantly reform the household registration system.

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The mediating effect of neighbor relationship between community social support and elderly’s subjective well-being in China

Journal of Health Psychology ◽

10.1177/1359105317733535 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (6) ◽

pp. 780-790

Author(s):

Shan Jiang ◽

Chunkai Li ◽

Zhiyou Wang ◽

Xiaotong Fang

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Structural Equation ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

The Elderly ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Neighbor Relationship ◽

Chinese General Social Survey

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between community social support, neighbor relationship, and the subjective well-being of the elderly in China. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model based on a sample of 2732 senior adults from 2010 Chinese General Social Survey. Results showed that community social support could indirectly affect the subjective well-being of the elderly through the complete mediating effect of neighbor relationship, although there was no significant correlation between community social support and the elderly’s subjective well-being. Implications for theory, social work, and social policy were discussed.

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The Influence of Perception of Social Equality and Social Trust on Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Chinese People: The Moderator Role of Education

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731982 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Shuang Gao ◽

Jilun Zhao

Keyword(s):

Social Trust ◽

Rural China ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Social Equality ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Moderation Effect ◽

Chinese General Social Survey ◽

The Relationship

The present study explored the moderation effect of education on the relationship between the perception of social equality and social trust and individuals’ subjective well-being (SWB) in rural China. Data were derived from the nationally representative cross-sectional Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). After handling missingness, 5,911 eligible participants (age 18 years or older) from the 2015 wave were included in the model. We used logistic regression to test the hypotheses. We first tested the effect of the perception of social equality and social trust on SWB. Then we added an interaction term to test the moderation effect of education in this relationship. The results show that education had a significant moderating effect on the association between general social trust and SWB. While had no significant effect on the association between the perception of social equality, special social trust and SWB. The perception of social equality had significant effects in both groups. The relationship between special social trust and SWB in both groups was not significant. For the more educated group, general social trust had a significant and positive effect on SWB.

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