The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy

By H. Brockmann, J. Delhey, Christian Welzel, Hao Yuan. 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012 (2017, background): “Moreover, within countries, trends of aggregate social capital correlate significantly with trends of subjective well-being (Bartolini et al., 2013a,b; Bartolini and Sarracino, 2015; Brockmann et al., 2009; Easterlin et al., 2012).”
The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China: The impacts of the social and physical environment (2017, background): “The majority of relevant studies have focused on the association between one's SWB andhis or her socioeconomic status (Li & Zhu, 2006; Appleton & Song, 2008; Brockmann et al., 2009).”
Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China: A comparative study of two generations of migrants and urban locals (2014, background): “A growing subset of this literature has examined the determinants of job satisfaction and happiness in China (see e.g. Appleton and Song, 2008; Brockman et al., 2009; Gao and Smyth, 2010, 2011; Heywood et al., 2009; Knight and Gunatilaka, 2010a, 2010b, 2011, 2012; Knight et al., 2009; Mishra et al.,”
The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom (2015, background): “As also noticed by Brockmann et al. (2009), such trend suggests that financial dissatisfaction is not shaped by absolute income.”
Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, background): “Compared to earlier studies (e.g., Brockmann et al., 2009), we find that well-being in China appears to have risen in recent years, for all income and social groups, indicating a period of modest recovery in happiness, as also argued by Easterlin et al. (2012) and Easterlin (2012).”
How universal is happiness (2008, background): “Average happiness fell dramatically in the Russia and China following the great social changes that have taken place since the 1980s (Brockmann et al., 2008).”
From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective (2010, background): “A recent piece on China (Brockmann et al. 2009) demonstrates that dramatic shifts in happiness recipes can take place within just a few years time: What happened in China within one decade of economic liberalization and hefty growth rates was a ‘‘monetarization of happiness’’—life satisfaction has b”
Happiness Economics from 35,000 Feet (2012, unknown): “happiness research (e.g. Oswald, 1997; Hagerty & Veenhoven, 2003; Blanchflower & Oswald, 2004; Brockmann et al., 2008), and one which has obviously close ties with work looking at income and happiness on the individual level (e.”