Role of Social Capital in Determining Happiness and Life Satisfaction:Mediation of Self-reported Health Using Path Analysis

作     者：Suraj Sharma 

作者机构：Department of EconomicsS.M.(P.G.)CollegeChandausiM.J.P.Rohilkhand UniversityBareilly243006India 

出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第17卷第2期

页      面：211-242页

学科分类：082304[工学-载运工具运用工程] 08[工学] 080204[工学-车辆工程] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 

主　　题：Happiness Health Life satisfaction Path analysis Social capital 

摘      要：This study links social capital with people’s health and well-being using data from the seventh wave of the World Value Survey,logistic regression,and path *** study’s findings show that happiness and life satisfaction are two different measures of the same construct,or *** determinants of each are also characterised differently:while life satisfaction is more of a stable and relative measure and is more strongly influenced by civic cooperation,social participation,and educational attainment,happiness is more of an unstable measure and is more strongly influenced by community belonging,trust and confidence aggregates,including employment and location of residence of an ***,freedom of choice,financial satisfaction or social comparison,and state of health were the most important factors influencing happiness and life *** findings also show that self-reported health(SRH)has a greater impact on happiness than a measure of life *** analysis shows out of the three other components of social capital—community belonging,civic engagement,and social participation—trust and confidence aggregates are the ones that have the biggest impact on increased social *** both well-being measures,SRH mediated the *** life satisfaction measure had a higher level of mediation of SRH than happiness,but social capital had a smaller direct impact on life satisfaction than on *** was found to be partially mediating this relationship for both happiness and life satisfaction measures,which means that people with higher social capital reported feeling better off.