scholarly journals Share Rose, Get Fun: The Influence of Donation on Happiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-yang Wu ◽  
Yi-tong Yu ◽  
Yi-dan Yao ◽  
Mo-han Su ◽  
Wen-chao Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact

There is little literature on the impact of donation on individual wellbeing in China. This study examines individual donations in China to answer the question of whether helping others makes us happier and to provide policy implications for in Chinese context. Based on the 2012 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data and using ordered logit and OLS as benchmark models, this study finds that donation can significantly increase individual happiness. After using propensity score matching (PSM) to eliminate the possible impact of self-selection, the above conclusion remains robust. After a sub-sample discussion, it is found that this effect is more pronounced under completely voluntary donation behavior, and is not affected by economic factors, indicating that the happiness effect of donation does not vary significantly depending on the individual’s economic status. This study contributes to the literature on donation behavior by examining the impact of donation behavior on donors’ subjective happiness in China, and further identifies subjective happiness differences, as between voluntary and involuntary donations, thereby providing theoretical and empirical support for the formulation of policies for the development of donation institutions in China.

Social Capital’s Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 844-864 ◽  
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.

The influence of hukou and college education in China’s labour market

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1504-1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Xiao ◽  
Yanjie Bian
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
College Education ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
College Educated

This paper examines the impact of hukou and college education on job placement and wage attainment for Chinese rural migrant workers in the cities. The analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey shows that when rural-born individuals gain both urban hukou and college education, they enjoy equal job-sector placement and they earn significantly higher wages than the college-educated locals. But in the absence of a rural-to-urban hukou transfer, migrants have fewer opportunities to go to college than local peers, and even college education does not gain a migrant an equal chance of working in the state sector or receiving equal earnings. A major contribution of this study is to suggest a nine-category analytic scheme, which takes into account how education, hukou and type of workplace affect one another in jointly influencing labour market inequality between rural migrants and urbanite workers.

scholarly journals Research on the Influence of Education on Improving the Social Justice of Residents ——Empirical data based on CGSS2015

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delei Liu ◽  
Xiaojing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract: This study used data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2015) to analyze the impact of education on individual social justice.The study found that: (1) The proportion of the sample data that considered the society to be fairer or very fair was 49.84%, while the proportion that felt more unfair or very unfair was 27.84%;(2)The social justice of residents in the sample data has differences in regions, education, gender, ethnicity, and census;(3) Education has a significant positive effect on social justice. Improving the level of education can increase residents' sense of social justice.

scholarly journals Research on the Influence of Education on Improving the Social Justice of Residents ——Empirical data based on CGSS2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Delei Liu ◽  
Xiaojing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract: This study used data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2015) to analyze the impact of education on individual social justice.The study found that: (1) The proportion of the sample data that considered the society to be fairer or very fair was 49.84%, while the proportion that felt more unfair or very unfair was 27.84%;(2)The social justice of residents in the sample data has differences in regions, education, gender, ethnicity, and census;(3) Education has a significant positive effect on social justice. Improving the level of education can increase residents' sense of social justice.

scholarly journals What Dominates the Female Class Identification? Evidence From China

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Cheng ◽  
Jing Zhou ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Zhijun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Intergenerational Influence ◽  
Class Identification ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

In advocating gender equality today, we should not only pay attention to women's social status but also call for the women's psychological identification of class equality. What dominates female class identification? To answer this question, based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2015, this study constructs a female class identity framework from five aspects: the mother's intergenerational influence, female personal characteristics, lifestyle, gender consciousness, and spouse status. In this study, the ordered logit model is used to empirically analyze the impact of various factors on female class identification, and the results show the following: (1) gender consciousness has a significant impact on female class identification. (2) Lifestyle has a significant impact on the situation of having a spouse. (3) Spouse status has a significant positive effect on female class identification. But (4) the mother's intergenerational influence has no effect on female class identification. Therefore, this paper suggests that we should improve laws and regulations to protect women's normal rights, encourage women to establish an independent and self-improvement character, and enhance the class consciousness of women, especially rural women, in order to achieve the overall improvement of female class and psychological identification.

scholarly journals Can Social Mobility Alleviate Anxiety? An Empirical Analysis Based on the CGSS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Junhui Han
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact

With the aggravation of social competition, more and more people fall into anxiety, depression and even suicide. How to alleviate individual anxiety and then avoid the spread of social anxiety? Academic circles have been very concerned about the impact of social mobility on individual political attitude, psychology and behavior. Can social mobility alleviate individual anxiety? What is the underlying mechanism? Based on 17192 samples in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 from Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), the paper attempts to study the impact of social mobility on individual anxiety and the mediating effect of Self assessment on family economic status . The ordered probit regression model showed that the increase of positive mobility distance can alleviate individual anxiety to a certain extent, whether it is intra or inter-generational social mobility. Meamwhile, the higher the score of subjective class identification, the lower the degree of anxiety. The results also showed that self assessment on family economic status has a significant mediating effect on the relationship among social mobility and individual anxiety.

scholarly journals Housing and Adult Health: Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 916
Author(s):  
Nanqian Chen ◽  
Yanpei Shen ◽  
Hailun Liang ◽  
Rui Guo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Housing Price ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Living Region ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Impact

Housing is one of the social determinants of health and the most basic survival needs of human beings. Many studies have preliminarily confirmed that housing factors can influence residents’ health. The aims of this study were: to evaluate the housing factors associated with self-rated health and mental health among Chinese residents; to explore the regional heterogeneity of the impact of housing on health; and to assess the effects of housing on health among different age groups. Data was derived from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). Housing factors were analyzed along six dimensions: housing property, living space, number of living people, number of houses, living region and housing price. Self-rated health and mental health were used to measure health outcomes. Multivariate ordered logistic regression was performed to assess the relationship between housing and health. The living space, living region and housing price was significantly associated with self-rated health. The number of living people living region and housing price were related to mental health. The influence of housing factors on health were more pronounced among residents living in eastern and central area and among the middle-aged group (41–65). Present findings support the notion that housing factors were related to health outcomes. Future studies may focus on the impact of interventions that target on these factors, and the impact of housing on health among special groups such as migrant population and low-and-middle income families.

scholarly journals Influence of Commercial Insurance Purchase on the Health Status of Chinese Residents

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao-Chang Xu ◽  
Xiu-Juan Li ◽  
Meng-Yao Gao
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Research Result ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Commercial Insurance ◽  
Medical Reform ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
Better Than

Under the context of rapid economic and social development, and growing demands for a better life, Chinese residents have been increasingly concerned with their health status and issues. In this study, the internal relations between the purchase of commercial insurance by residents and their health status are analyzed and studied with a polytomous logit model based on the data of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2015. According to the research result, purchase of commercial insurance significantly improved the health status of residents, with an improving effect for rural residents apparently better than that among urban residents. In addition, purchase of commercial insurance can promote the health status of residents by increasing their household income. This research will provide an effective reference for the innovative development and medical reform of the commercial insurance of China in the future, which is theoretically and practically significant to the implementation of the Healthy China Strategy.

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