Surveying happiness in China: comparing measures of subjective well-being

Abstract The objectives of this study are to investigate (1) whether subjective well-being (SWB) measures in surveys on China are interchangeable and (2) whether these measures work together as a construct. To accomplish these tasks, we examine SWB measures 1990–2016 for basic statistics, correlatio...

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Main Authors: Becky Hsu, Weiwei Zhang, Christine Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-08-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-017-0062-5