The Influence of Perception of Social Equality and Social Trust on Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Chinese People: The Moderator Role of Education

Gao, Shuang; Zhao, Jun

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731982

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“…Yet our findings are consistent with previous observations, which showed that high levels of interpersonal trust and institutional trust not only reflect good-quality social relationships, but also promote meaning in life. These in turn affect one’s subjective life satisfaction evaluation [95, 88]. A researcher used Statistics Canada’s 2003 General Social Survey data, which were obtained by interviewing 24,951 people aged 15-80 years.…”

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“…Notably, all good relationships are built on trust [88,89]. More specifically, social capital of older people, which is based on social trust, and the expansion of social networks to accumulate social resources and social support, thus enhancing older people's life satisfaction.…”

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“…All of these networks are important for older people, because they provide opportunities for maintaining good interpersonal relationships and offer a sense of belonging, and feeling of being needed, and are conducive to improving their life satisfaction [85–87]. Notably, all good relationships are built on trust [88, 89]. More specifically, social capital of older people, which is based on social trust, and the expansion of social networks to accumulate social resources and social support, thus enhancing older people’s life satisfaction.…”

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The mediating role of social network between social trust and life satisfaction of older people: A structural equation model analysis approach

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Yang,

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BackgroundAlthough studies have demonstrated the relationship between the social trust and life satisfaction of older people, but existing studies have rarely considered the fewer studies have investigated social network as a mediating variable between social trust and life satisfaction.MethodsIn this study, 297 participants (age: ≥60 years) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, completed a questionnaire of social trust, social network, and life satisfaction. Structural equation model analysis and bootstrap methods were used to prove the mediating effect of social network.ResultsSocial trust was positively related to life satisfaction (B=0.410; p <0.01) and social network (B=0.472; p <0.01), social network was positively related to life satisfaction (B=0.433; p <0.01). and social network played an intermediary role in the relationship between social trust and life satisfaction (indirect effects = 0.321, bootstrap 95% CI = [0.051, 0.968]).ConclusionThese findings suggest the importance of social trust for life satisfaction, with social network acting as a positive mediator, particularly in China. In conclusion, this study exploring the mediating effect of social network provides knowledge essential for ensuring a happy old age. The study results can help advance psychological research on life satisfaction of older people and suggest new intervention strategies in this field. We encourage increasing the expansion of social networks through various means to enhance the impact of social trust on life satisfaction of older people.

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“…Trust expresses personal beliefs about social relationships and is necessary for creating such relationships and developing a sense of control and mastery of one's life (Mirowsky & Ross, 2017). The trust-SWB association is well documented in the empirical literature across countries and different population groups (e.g., Awaworyi Churchill & Mishra, 2017;Elgar et al, 2011;Gao & Zhao, 2022;Laurence, 2019;Xu et al, 2023), including adolescents (Tuominen & Haanpää, 2022). While, to my knowledge, studies that explored the trust-GLS link among young adults have not been conducted, a large-scale European study found that interpersonal trust is a positive and significant determinant of young adults' mental wellbeing (measures by the World Health Organization-5; Giovinazzo et al, 2022), and studies in the Israeli context have pointed to the protective effect of trust against psychological distress (Achdut, 2023) and loneliness (Achdut & Refaeli, 2020) among young adults.…”

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Ethnic inequality between Arabs and Jews in Israel in global life satisfaction: A social determinants examination among young adults.

Achdut

2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Global life satisfaction (GLS), a core construct of subjective well-being, plays a vital role in positive development among young adults. Persistent inequality in subjective well-being across minority versus majority groups is a growing public health concern. However, research evidence on the minority-majority disparity in GLS among representative samples of young adults is scarce. Based on national data from Israel (N = 2,405), this study examines (a) the association of multiple forms of economic (not in education, employment, or training status, subjective socioeconomic status indicators), social-relational (trust, discrimination, loneliness), and environmental determinants (neighborhood conditions) with GLS among young adults from a minority-majority (Israeli Arabs-Israeli Jews) perspective; (b) whether minority-majority disparity in GLS can be explained by differential health returns for the determinants considered across participants from the two groups; (c) whether minority-majority disparities in GLS persist when controlling for these determinants, suggesting the effect of ethnicity per se. Significant disparities in GLS by ethnicity were found, with young Arab adults far less likely to be satisfied or very satisfied with their lives. Hierarchical logistic regression indicated that economic, social-relational, and environmental determinants shape GLS, but these factors do not eliminate the adverse effect of minority status on GLS. While social-relational and environmental factors uniformly affect GLS across minority and majority participants, economic factors were less influential among the Arab minority, suggesting lower health returns for economic resources among young Arab adults. Implications for policies aimed at promoting health equity and social justice are discussed. Public Policy Relevance StatementYoung adults' global life satisfaction (GLS) is shaped by their multifaceted positions within demographic, economic, social, and environmental stratification systems, with those at the bottom of the ladder across the various domains demonstrating poor GLS. While social determinants from these domains, including discrimination, drive inequality in GLS, they do not eliminate the adverse effect of ethnicity on young adults' GLS, suggesting that ethnicity per se affects GLS. Disparities in GLS can be narrowed only by addressing multiple forms of disadvantage. Combined policy measures should be taken to reduce financial deprivation and decrease the prevalence of young people detached from education and employment. Expanding access to postsecondary education and vocational training, particularly among ethnic minorities, should be viewed as a central path to promoting young adults' subjective and material well-being. Inequality in GLS can be further reduced by combating discrimination, loneliness, and low levels of social trust. Investment in environmental living conditions-neighborhood physical attributes and safety-is needed to promote equity in GLS and environmental justice. Inequality in subjective well-be...

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“…The data of this study were obtained from the China General Social Survey (CGSS, http://cgss.ruc.edu.cn, accessed on 20 October 2022). Currently, CGSS data are widely used in scientific research, education, and government initiatives [56][57][58][59][60][61]. The survey was conducted in a total of 100 counties (districts) in 29 provinces across China, and within each county (district), four communities or villages were randomly selected, from which 25 households were then randomly surveyed.…”

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Knowledge or Responsibility? The Role of Media Use on Citizens’ Willingness to Pay for Environment Governance

Wang

2022

Sustainability

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It is not that the public is unwilling to participate in environmental protection, but rather that they lack the appropriate information. The media offers an alternative explanatory pathway to understanding citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental governance, but the existing literature still lacks empirical studies on this topic and the intermediate mechanisms. Adopting an environmental communication perspective, this paper divided the environmental effects of media into two dimensions: knowledge growth and responsibility cultivation, and conducted an empirical analysis on whether, and how, media use affected citizens’ WTP, based on data from the China General Social Survey 2018 (hereafter, CGSS2018). The findings found that the frequency of media use significantly increased citizen’s WTP, in which individual environmental responsibility rather than environmental knowledge played a mediating effect; i.e., media use increased individuals’ WTP by increasing the public’s environmental responsibility. Furthermore, this study discovered that traditional media use had a significant effect on the citizens’ WTP, again verifying the mediating effect of individual environmental responsibility, while new media use did not have such a communication effect. This study extends the theories related to pro-environmental behaviors, and provides practical implications for the government to promote environmental governance and sustainability.

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The Influence of Perception of Social Equality and Social Trust on Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Chinese People: The Moderator Role of Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

The mediating role of social network between social trust and life satisfaction of older people: A structural equation model analysis approach

The mediating role of social network between social trust and life satisfaction of older people: A structural equation model analysis approach

Ethnic inequality between Arabs and Jews in Israel in global life satisfaction: A social determinants examination among young adults.

Knowledge or Responsibility? The Role of Media Use on Citizens’ Willingness to Pay for Environment Governance

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