The Relationship Between Age and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Five Capital Cities in Mainland China
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- 作者：Zhanjun Xing (1)
Liqing Huang (2) - 关键词：Subjective well ; being ; Personal well ; being ; Age ; Mainland China
- 刊名：Social Indicators Research
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：July 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：117
- 期：3
- 页码：743-756
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Liqing Huang (2)
1. School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, 5 Hongjialou, Jinan, 250100, People’s Republic of China
2. School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan, 250100, People’s Republic of China - ISSN：1573-0921
文摘
Since the mid-60s of the twentieth-century, the researchers have made lots of studies on the relationship between age and subjective well-being (SWB), and yielded some contradictory conclusions. By using an urban sample (N?=?3,099) from five capital cities in Mainland China, this paper presents some new evidence on this issue in the Chinese context. The paper reconfirms a significant relationship between age and subjective well-being, and argues that different measure instruments of subjective well-being lead to different types of relationship. It is partly testified that subjective well-being follows approximate U-shape across age groups, and the minimum point lies in the age band 45-9. It is also found that age is not always a strong significant predictor of subjective well-being when a different dependent variable was adopted to multiple regression analysis. It is suggested that the researchers should pay more attention to the specific content of subjective well-being while examining the relationship between age and subjective well-being.