Homeownership and happiness in urban China

Fong, Eric; Yuan, Yue; Gan, Yiqing

doi:10.1007/s10901-020-09728-6

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“…The improvement in PCLS is significant to the development of individual farmers as the new generation moves out from older houses to new houses to increase their quality of life. This supports previous findings that report improvements to housing conditions being positively linked to SWB [ 59 , 60 ].…”

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Can Land Policy Promote Farmers’ Subjective Well-Being? A Study on Withdrawal from Rural Homesteads in Jinjiang, China

Liang

Wang

Lin

2022

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Urbanization and aging populations are threatening the sustainability of rural development around the world. Improving the happiness of rural residents is closely related not only to rural development but also to the harmony and stability of a country. Sustainable development has become an important strategy for China’s rural areas. Although withdrawal from rural homesteads is an important issue in rural land policy, few researchers have examined the determinants of the subjective well-being of farmers following withdrawal. The current paper investigated 315 rural residents under three models of the “withdrawal from homestead” policy in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, China. The application of the orderly probit model revealed how satisfaction with economic, social, environment, cultural, and policy factors impacted their subjective well-being. The pooled results showed that satisfaction with cultural and policy factors had no significant impact; however, the other aspects significantly promoted their subjective well-being. The empirical model with interaction terms indicated the significant positive impact of economic, environmental, and social factors on subjective well-being under the index replacement model, while only environment and social factors exerted a significant positive impact under the asset replacement and monetary compensation models. Corresponding policy implications are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Can Land Policy Promote Farmers’ Subjective Well-Being? A Study on Withdrawal from Rural Homesteads in Jinjiang, China

Liang

Wang

Lin

2022

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“…In China, housing is not only a carrier of the family, but also provides emotional security for blood relatives under the same roof ( Hu and Ye, 2020 ). In combination with the deep-rooted cultural desire in China, homeownership is also a necessary step in fulfilling the obligation and responsibility to provide security for the family ( Fong et al, 2021 ). In addition, driven by China’s mother-in-law economy, home ownership is seen as a basic requirement and a major signal of marriage ( Fang and Tian, 2017 ), and as a bond for the continuation of family inheritance.…”

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“… Qi and Ploeger (2021) studied the influence of cultural concepts on Chinese people and found that Chinese people are very face consciousness and face consciousness. Fong (2021) found that Chinese people emphasize more on family responsibilities and obligations when comparing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. Hofstede (1993) found that Chinese people are relatively more risk-averse and pursue long-term orientation and collectivism.…”

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Renting vs. Owning: Public Stereotypes of Housing Consumption Decision From the Perspective of Confucian Culture: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Liu

Cheng

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The ideas of face consciousness, group conformity, extended family concept, and crisis consciousness in Confucian culture have a subtle and far-reaching impact on housing consumption decision among the Chinese public, forming a housing consumption model of “preferring to own a house rather than rent one.” The poor interaction between the housing rental market and the sales market caused by the shortage of rental demand and irrational purchasing behaviors has led to soaring house prices and imbalance between supply and demand that prevail in major cities in China. To gain a deeper understanding of public cognitive attitude toward decisions on owning and renting a house, this study divided the subjects into high and low impact groups based on the overall Confucian culture and four subdimensions. It attempts to take a cognitive neuroscience approach for assessing public stereotypes of housing consumption decision with different types based on the analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs). The results are as follows. First, overall, there is an obvious implicit stereotype of renting a house and explicit stereotype of owning a house among the public. Second, ERPs data show that descriptions of renting a house with positive adjectives could evoke more significant N400 responses. In other words, in the heuristic system, the public perceive that renting a house is restrictive, stressful, unhappy, and crisis. Data from subjective reports show that, after processing information in the analytic system, the public tend to think that owning a house is self-contained, restful, warm, and comfortable. Third, a more negative stereotype of renting a house exists in the high Confucian culture influence group (HIC) Group than in the low Confucian culture influence group (LIC) Group, and is more inclined to own a home. Fourth, under the Confucian culture sub-dimension, there are differences in housing consumption stereotypes between high and low groups in terms of extended family concept, group conformity, and crisis consciousness. Fifth, the moderating effect analysis found that perceived usefulness, trust in the rental market, and policy perception can be important factors in guiding public housing consumption stereotypes.

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“…Economic resources, commonly measured by income and wealth, are important to individuals' happiness because they provide family resources to meet basic needs, achieve desires (Ball and Chernova, 2008;Diener et al, 1993;Easterlin, 2001Easterlin, , 2003Killingsworth, 2021;Sacks et al, 2012;Stevenson and Wolfers, 2013), and eventually determine quality of life. Previous studies have consistently shown that both income and wealth are positively related to one's happiness (Cheng et al, 2020;Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2005;Fong et al, 2021;Hsieh, 2011;Huang et al, 2016).…”

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“…Even less research has directly investigated the relationship between the family and individuals’ happiness; when it does, the analysis is often restricted to either a regional sample or a sample of specific age groups without accounting for the differences over the life course (e.g. Chen and Tong, 2021; Chyi and Mao, 2012; Fong et al, 2021; Gao and Qu, 2019; Huang et al, 2016; Pei and Pillai, 1999; Qian and Qian, 2015; Shi, 2016). Overall, we still lack a general understanding of Chinese people's happiness, its relationship with multiple family characteristics, and the potential age variation in this regard.…”

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Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

Liu

2021

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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An individual's happiness is closely related to their family life as the family is the institution in which they spend most of their life. Capitalizing on data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the relationship between family economic standing (measured by household income and homeownership) and family processes (measured by marital status and childlessness), as well as children's characteristics (measured by gender composition of children and adult children's educational attainment and marital status), and happiness of Chinese adults. We take a life-course perspective and examine how such relationships vary across different life stages. We find that factors like household income and homeownership are positively related to happiness for people in general; that married adults are happier than those who are unmarried; childlessness results in decreased individual happiness in old age; adult children's educational attainment, measured by college degree (three-year and four-year) and above, improves parents’ happiness; while children's unmarried status makes parents less happy. These significant relationships also change across the life span.

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Homeownership and happiness in urban China

Cited by 18 publications

References 41 publications

Can Land Policy Promote Farmers’ Subjective Well-Being? A Study on Withdrawal from Rural Homesteads in Jinjiang, China

Can Land Policy Promote Farmers’ Subjective Well-Being? A Study on Withdrawal from Rural Homesteads in Jinjiang, China

Renting vs. Owning: Public Stereotypes of Housing Consumption Decision From the Perspective of Confucian Culture: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

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