Commute time and subjective well-being in urban China

By Peng Nie, A. Sousa-Poza. 2016

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Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the association between commute time and subjective well-being in a sample of 16- to 65-year-old employees in urban China. We find evidence that a longer commute time is associated with lower levels of both life satisfaction and happiness, especially when the commute times are extreme (≥ 1 hour per day). A multiple mediation analysis further indicates that the relation between commute time and happiness is partially mediated by time spent on daily activities, particularly sleeping. We calculate the amount of income necessary to compensate an employee's loss in well-being at approximately 82 yuan per hour of commute time, implying that, in urban China, the annual loss of well-being amounts to around 10 billion yuan.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In Social Psychology

1. J. De Vos
2. Dick Ettema
3. Samuel Chng
4. A. Davis
5. Adam Martin
6. Ben Clark
7. S. Handy
8. Kiron Chatterjee

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. De Vos
2. Dick Ettema
3. Samuel Chng
4. S. Handy
5. Xinyu Cao
6. B. Etheridge
7. Lisa Spantig

In Transportation

1. J. De Vos
2. Dick Ettema
3. Kiron Chatterjee
4. A. Davis
5. Adam Martin
6. Ben Clark
7. S. Handy
8. Louise Reardon

Citations in the corpus

• Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019, background): “Nie and Sousa-Poza (2018) China Family Panel Studies data collected in 2010 (n = 4117) 1.”