Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 27;20(5):4200. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054200.
In recent decades, China's rapid economic growth has substantially improved average living standards; however, this has not been accompanied by greater happiness among the Chinese population. This phenomenon is known as the Easterlin Paradox (i.e., there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness) in Western countries. This study examined the effects of subjective social class on subjective well-being and mental health in China. Consequently, we found that individuals in a relatively low social class had lower levels of subjective well-being and mental health; self-class discrepancy partially explains the relationship between subjective social class and subjective well-being and fully explains the relationship between subjective social class and mental health; and subjective social mobility moderates the path from self-class discrepancy to subjective well-being and mental health. These findings suggest that enhancing social mobility is an important method for reducing class differences in subjective well-being and mental health. These results have important implications, indicating that enhancing social mobility is an important method for reducing class differences in subjective well-being and mental health in China.
近几十年来，中国经济的快速增长显著提高了平均生活水平；然而，这并没有伴随着中国人口幸福感的提高。这种现象在西方国家被称为伊斯特林悖论（即，一个社会的经济发展与其平均幸福水平之间没有联系）。本研究考察了主观社会阶层对中国主观幸福感和心理健康的影响。因此，我们发现，相对较低社会阶层的个体主观幸福感和心理健康水平较低；自我阶层差异部分解释了主观社会阶层与主观幸福感之间的关系，完全解释了主观社会阶层与心理健康之间的关系；主观社会流动调节了自我阶层差异与主观幸福感和心理健康之间的关系。这些发现表明，提高社会流动性是减少主观幸福感和心理健康方面的阶层差异的重要方法。这些结果具有重要意义，表明在中国，提高社会流动性是减少主观幸福感和心理健康方面的阶层差异的重要方法。
