Subjective Well-Being Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques: Evidence from 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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Social Capital’s Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121419835504 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (6) ◽

pp. 844-864 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Feng Hao ◽

Jay L. Michaels ◽

Shannon Elizabeth Bell

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Environmental Concern ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Future Research ◽

Social Survey ◽

Using Data ◽

Chinese General Social Survey

This study examines the ways in which social capital influences people’s environmental concern in China. Using data obtained from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey, we measure social capital through social networks and trust. We find that the ways people think about and act toward others influence the ways they think about and act toward the environment. The structural equation modeling results suggest that one’s connections with others, including socializing with relatives and friends as well as general social networking, are significantly and positively related to various dimensions of environmental concern. Greater trust is positively related to one’s willingness to make sacrifices for the benefit of the environment but is also negatively related to perceived dangerousness of pollution. Our findings highlight the value of social capital in promoting environmental concern. We discuss these findings in the context of existing literature, and propose policy implications and suggest directions for future research.

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The Negative Associations Between Materialism and Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Individual and Regional Evidence From China

Environment and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0013916518811902 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (6) ◽

pp. 611-638 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dian Gu ◽

Shuqing Gao ◽

Rong Wang ◽

Jiang Jiang ◽

Yan Xu

Keyword(s):

Environmental Attitudes ◽

General Social Survey ◽

World Value Survey ◽

Environmental Behaviors ◽

Social Survey ◽

Attitudes And Behaviors ◽

Research Findings ◽

And Behaviors ◽

Using Data ◽

Chinese General Social Survey

Previous studies have shown that materialism is related to environmentalism, but unstable findings still exist. To clarify the relationships between materialism and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, the present study addressed some methodological issues and provided both individual- and regional-level evidence from China. Using data from the World Value Survey and the Chinese General Social Survey, we observed that materialism was negatively associated with pro-environmental attitudes (Study 1, n = 2,300; Study 2, n = 3,672) and pro-environmental behaviors (Study 2). Moreover, we found that pro-environmental attitudes partially mediated the association between materialism and pro-environmental behaviors in Study 2. We further searched for additional regional evidence in Study 3, and we found that the more materialistic regions are, the more energy is consumed. Results indicate that materialism is associated with decreases in pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the research findings.

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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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Social change and generalized anomie: Why economic development has reduced social trust in China

International Sociology ◽

10.1177/0268580918812281 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 58-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zhenhua Su ◽

Yanyu Ye ◽

Pu Wang

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Social Trust ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Rapid Onset ◽

Chinese Society ◽

Social Survey ◽

Integration Mechanisms ◽

Per Capita ◽

Using Data ◽

Chinese General Social Survey

Chinese society is facing a decline in social trust, a serious crisis which is escalating as modernization continues. In this article the authors apply Durkheim’s social transitional theory to explain this disconcerting phenomenon, using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2013. The study finds that economic development as measured by per capita GDP of counties in China has given rise to social anomie, which has led to a reduction in social trust. With the rapid onset of modernization, social norms have gradually fallen by the wayside and new social integration mechanisms have not yet been fully established, resulting in a state of generalized social anomie in China.

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