腐败对我国居民幸福感的影响及作用机制研究

A Study of the Impacts and Mechanisms of Corruption on Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Residents

利用2015年中国综合社会调查数据研究了腐败感知对个人幸福感的影响及其作用机制,研究发现:(1)腐败感知对居民幸福感有负面影响,当腐败感知达到中等腐败程度时,会显著降低个人幸福感。(2)中介效应模型回归结果显示,腐败感知通过影响社会保障满意度、政府信任和收入分配不公平感这三种途径显著地影响居民的幸福感,其中社会保障满意度途径的影响最为重要。(3)对于不同社会阶层,这三种机制的影响存在异质性,它们对低社会阶层群体的幸福感的影响很显著,但对中、高社会阶层的幸福感的影响不够显著。以上结论意味着政府应继续反腐工作,并重点加强社会保障服务相关领域的反腐,这将有助于提高我国居民幸福感。

By making use of the 2015 CGSS survey data, this paper studies the impact of corruption perception on individual subjective well-being and its mechanism of action. The findings show that： （1） corruption perception has a negative impact on the subjective well-being of residents; when corruption perception reaches the medium level of corruption, individual＇s happiness will be significantly reduced; （2） the regression result of the mediation effect model shows that the corruption perception can significantly impact residents＇ subjective well-being through affecting the three paths of social security satisfaction, government trust, and the feeling of unfair income distribution, of which the impact on social security satisfaction is the most important; （3） there are heterogeneous in the impacts of these three mechanisms for different social strata： the impact on the subjective well-being of lower-level social groups is significant, while on the happiness of middle and higher-level social groups is not significant enough. The above conclusions indicate that the government should continue fighting against corruption and focus on strengthening anti-corruption in areas related to social security services, which can help to improve the happiness of our residents.