家庭经济状况对主观幸福感影响的实证研究

An Empirical Research on the Effect of Family Economic Status on Subjective Well-Being

通过对广东省汕头市城镇家庭的入户抽样调查,实证分析了家庭经济状况对居民主观幸福感的影响问题。研究发现家庭总收入和总支出对主观幸福感不存在显著影响,而家庭相对收入和相对储蓄对主观幸福感存在显著正向影响,这一结论验证了相对收入理论对主观幸福感的理论解释。同时研究发现家庭住房面积也对居民主观幸福感存在显著正向影响。

This paper is an empirical analysis of how family economic status affects people ’s subjective well-being through a household sample survey of urban families in Shantou, Guangdong. It discovers a family ’s total income and total expenditure do not exert conspicuous effect on its subjective well -being, while its relative income and relative savings have distinct positive effect on its subjective well-being, which verifies the theory of relative income ’s explanation of subjective well-being. It also discovers the positive effect of family housing area on inhabitants’ subjective well-being.