Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

社会 Pub Date : 2021-11-08 DOI:10.1177/2057150X211045484

Jiashu Xu, Airan Liu

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Abstract

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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家庭生活与中国成年人一生的幸福

一个人的幸福与他们的家庭生活密切相关，因为家庭是他们度过一生大部分时间的机构。利用2018年中国家庭面板研究的数据，本研究调查了家庭经济地位(以家庭收入和住房所有权为衡量标准)、家庭过程(以婚姻状况和有无子女为衡量标准)、儿童特征(以儿童性别构成和成年子女的受教育程度和婚姻状况为衡量标准)与中国成年人幸福感之间的关系。我们从人生历程的角度来研究这种关系在不同的人生阶段是如何变化的。我们发现，一般来说，家庭收入和房屋所有权等因素与人们的幸福感呈正相关;已婚人士比未婚人士更幸福;无子女会导致老年时个人幸福感下降;成年子女的受教育程度，以大学学历(三年制和四年制)及以上来衡量，提高了父母的幸福感;而孩子的未婚状态让父母不太开心。这些重要的关系在人的一生中也会发生变化。

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社会 Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

CiteScore

1.70

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发文量

6799

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