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来源

CITIES,Vol.60,IssueA,P.333-342

语言

英文

关键字

Subjective wellbeing; Migrants; Social support; Neighbourhood social environment; Neighbourhood amenities; China; RURAL-URBAN MIGRANTS; RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RELATIVE-INCOME; MENTAL-HEALTH; GREEN SPACE; NEW-ZEALAND; LIFE SCALE; HA

作者单位

[Liu, Yuqi; Zhang, Fangzhu; Wu, Fulong] UCL, Bartlett Sch Planning, 14 Upper Woburn Pl, London WC1H 0NN, England. [Liu, Ye] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Urban & Reg Planning, Sch Geog & Planning, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China. [Li, Zhigang] Wuhan Univ, Sch Urban Design, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China. [Liu, Ye] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Shenzhen Res Inst, Shenzhen 518057, Peoples R China. Li, ZG (reprint author), Wuhan Univ, Sch Urban Design, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China. E-Mail: yuqi.liu.13@ucl.ac.uk; fangzhu.zhang@ucl.ac.uk; fulong.wu@ucl.ac.uk; liuyeliuyewin@126.com; zhigangli@whu.edu.cn

摘要

China has witnessed a surge of rural-urban migrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their own lives in host cities, and no study has been undertaken to link migrants' subjective wellbeing with their residential environments. Using the data collected from a questionnaire survey in Guangzhou and multilevel linear models, this paper examines the determinants of migrants' subjective wellbeing in host cities. It particularly focuses on the extent to which and the ways in which migrants' social ties and residential environment influence their subjective wellbeing. The results indicate that, in general, migrants have a lower level of subjective wellbeing than local residents, and the cognitive and emotional components of migrants' subjective wellbeing are influenced by different factors. The sense of relative deprivation, social support, and neighbourhood social environment matter in determining the cognitive component of migrants' wellbeing (life satisfaction) but have no impact on the emotional component of their wellbeing (positive and negative affect). No evidence shows that neighbourhood cleanliness and neighbourhood amenities influence the level of migrants' subjective wellbeing. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.