Does Economic Development Affect Life Satisfaction? A Spatial-Temporal Contextual Analysis in China

doi:10.1007/s10902-015-9612-1

	Does Economic Development Affect Life Satisfaction? A Spatial-Temporal Contextual Analysis in China
	Zhou, Jie1 ; Xie, Yu 2,3
摘要	Social context affects people's life satisfaction because it provides a natural reference for evaluating their own socioeconomic standing. Given their reference role, social contexts operationalized by space versus time may have very different implications. Our hypothesis is that spatial variation in economic development has little impact on life satisfaction as individuals living in different locales are unlikely to experience this variation personally, but that short-term temporal changes in economic development, on the other hand, do have an impact, as individuals in a given locale experience these changes directly. These two very different implications of spatial versus temporal social contexts are tested with an analysis of repeated survey data in 60 counties of China from 2005 to 2010. The results show that life satisfaction does not vary much with regional differences in economic development but responds positively to the local level of economic development over time. That is, the contextual effects of economic development vary greatly depending on how social context is operationalized. Temporal context matters far more than regional context where individuals' life satisfaction is concerned.
关键词	Life Satisfaction Economic Development Contextual Effects Multi-level Analysis
	2016-04-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.1007/s10902-015-9612-1
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES
ISSN	1389-4978
卷号	17 期号:2 页码:643-658
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	EASTERLIN PARADOX ; HAPPINESS ; INCOME ; INCREASE ; UTILITY ; GROWTH
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology ; Social Sciences - Other Topics
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary ; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000372955100011
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(71101145) ; Chinese Academy of Sciences(GH11041)
引用统计	被引频次：23[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19958
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 16 Lincui Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Michigan, Inst Social Res, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA 3.Peking Univ, Ctr Social Res, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou, Jie,Xie, Yu. Does Economic Development Affect Life Satisfaction? A Spatial-Temporal Contextual Analysis in China[J]. JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES,2016,17(2):643-658.
APA	Zhou, Jie,&Xie, Yu.(2016).Does Economic Development Affect Life Satisfaction? A Spatial-Temporal Contextual Analysis in China.JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES,17(2),643-658.
MLA	Zhou, Jie,et al."Does Economic Development Affect Life Satisfaction? A Spatial-Temporal Contextual Analysis in China".JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES 17.2(2016):643-658.

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