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 Impact of Internet Use on Elderly Health: Empirical Study Based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) Data

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Changyong Liang ◽  
Keqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Elderly Health ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
Moderating Role

In the current era, the rapid spread of Internet technology has combined with various traditional industries; this provides new research perspectives and solutions for current problems, such as those in the elderly care industry. Elderly health is an important social problem in various countries, and governments have turned to the internet for new methods and better solutions. However, internet-use behavior has a certain influence on the elderly’s health status. This study investigates the effects of internet use on the elderly’s physical health, mental health, and self-rated health, along with the moderating role of individual cognitive ability in the above relationship. This study uses data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2012 and 2015 as samples for analysis via the hierarchical regression method. The sample is from China and had 2821 and 3185 valid respondents in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Results show that internet use significantly affects the physical and mental health of the elderly and does not significantly affect self-rated health. In addition, individual cognitive ability plays a negative moderating role between internet use and physical and mental health. Finally, on the basis of results analysis and discussion, this study provides new recommendations to achieve targeted health improvements.

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.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Positive Psychology and Individualism on Mental Health Status of the Elderly in China: Evidence From Chinese General Social Survey Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Many previous studies have proved that positive psychology can promote mental health. However, little is known about how and when it promotes mental health in older adults. Methods The data of this study were sourced from the 2017 wave of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), involving 1,537 older adults aged 60 and above. OLS regression model was used to explore the impact of positive psychology on mental health of the elderly. Moreover, stata 16.0 was used to measure the moderating effect of individualism on the relationship between positive psychology and mental health. Results After controlling for demographic characteristics, socio-economic status and lifestyle factors, the regression results suggest that positive psychology was associated with mental health (coefficient = 0.112, p < 0.01). In addition, the positive relationship was significantly stronger for people who were older, married, lived in urban areas, with higher education and higher subjective social class position, and higher exercise frequency. Moreover, the moderating effect analysis results suggest that individualism strengthened the relationship between positive psychology and mental health. Conclusions This study reveals that positive psychology has a positive effect on mental health among the elderly, and the positive health effect shows significant age, marital status, living areas, education background, social class position and physical exercise inequalities. Furthermore, this study also provides new evidence indicating that individualism positively moderates the relationship between positive psychology and mental health. Promoting positive psychology can be a promising way for China to promote psychological care for the elderly in the future.

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 The Effects of Social Media Use on the Health of Older Adults: An Empirical Analysis Based on 2017 Chinese General Social Survey

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1143
Author(s):  
Liping Fu ◽  
Yu Xie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Media Use ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Chinese General Social Survey

An aging population and social informatization are currently the two main social phenomena affecting China. Under their influences, the real-life experiences of older adults are becoming more and more closely connected to the online world, and the influences of the Internet on healthy aging cannot be ignored. This work aimed to study whether Internet use had an effect on the physical and mental health of older adults, whether the effect was positive or negative, and whether its influence on physical and mental health was heterogeneous. In this study, data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) was used to analyze the effects of social media use on the physical and mental health of older adults. The results indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between social media use and the health of older adults. The correlation between social media use and mental health of older adults was more significant than physical health. These results could help us further study the effects of Internet use on the health of older adults.

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.

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