社会质量与幸福感:基于中国三个城市调查数据的比较研究

Social Quality and Happiness-An Analysis of Survey Data from Three Chinese Cities

在过去的二十多年中,幸福感的研究已经从关注物质条件因素的测量转向对主观因素的强调。研究进一步拓展对于这一议题的讨论。它采用社会质量的分析方法来探索社会因素对于幸福感的影响。其使用的数据来自于2011年至2012年间在杭州、厦门、深圳三市进行的社会质量调查,并通过对调查资料的分析来揭示社会质量因素与幸福感的相关性。研究证明,虽然社会质量四个维度的各种因素对人们幸福感的影响存在着差异,但这些因素总体来说与幸福感仍然高度相关。该研究目的在于把社会质量的研究与生活质量的研究和幸福感的研究建立起联系,从而扩展社会质量研究的议题领域。

Over the last two decades,the focus of happiness research has shifted from the measurement of life quality with an emphasis on material well-being to subjective well-being. This article follows this direction of development,but moves further into social well-being. Utilizing the method of social quality analysis, this study developed an analysis of happiness by looking into the influence of social factors on happiness. The study was established on the basis of empirical data collected from a social quality survey done in Hangzhou,Xiamen, and Shenzhen during 2011~2012. The purpose of this study is to expose the relationships between social quality analysis and happiness studies. The study demonstrates a strong correlation of social quality factors with happiness,although each set of these factors has a different impact on happiness in different factor domains.