作者: Yuan, Hao

卷: 17 期: 2 页: 569-586

DOI: 10.1007/s10902-015-9622-z 出版年: APR 2016

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摘要:Although the positive associations between social capital, household income and life satisfaction are well documented, little is known about how income actually shapes the relation between structural social capital and life satisfaction. This study investigates the roles of economic condition in determining the relationships between life satisfaction and three aspects of structural social capital, namely network size, neighborhood interaction and social participation. This study uses a random sample of 6002 adults nested in 2365 families from three regions in China: Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong-province and applies multilevel linear regression models. The results firstly show that household income and structural social capital are positively associated with life satisfaction. Further analyses on the interaction effects find that household income substantively reduces the association between a social network size and life satisfaction but increases the relationship between social participation and life satisfaction. In addition, the differences between families explain about 25 % unexplained variances of life satisfaction.

KeyWords Plus:URBAN CHINA; PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; NETWORK TYPE; HEALTH; SUPPORT; HAPPINESS; QUALITY; PARTICIPATION; POPULATION; INEQUALITY