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The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility

Although previous investigations have agreed that Chinese rural-to-urban migrants’ socioeconomic status (SES) increases with their migration, the association between SES and subjective well-being is uncertain. To address this research gap, the present study proposed that the association between obje...

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Autores principales: Huang, Silin, Hou, Jiawei, Sun, Ling, Dou, Donghui, Liu, Xia, Zhang, Hongchuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00819
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author Huang, Silin
Hou, Jiawei
Sun, Ling
Dou, Donghui
Liu, Xia
Zhang, Hongchuan
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Hou, Jiawei
Sun, Ling
Dou, Donghui
Liu, Xia
Zhang, Hongchuan
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description Although previous investigations have agreed that Chinese rural-to-urban migrants’ socioeconomic status (SES) increases with their migration, the association between SES and subjective well-being is uncertain. To address this research gap, the present study proposed that the association between objective SES and subjective well-being is mediated by subjective SES. This model was tested with a sample of 432 Chinese rural-to-urban migrants. The results indicate a significant association between objective SES and subjective well-being and a partial mediating effect of subjective SES. Furthermore, subjective social mobility, which is one’s expectation about the possibility to move upward in the social hierarchy, was found to moderate both the direct path from objective SES to subjective well-being and the indirect path from subjective SES to subjective well-being. These findings suggest that Chinese rural-to-urban migrants gained in subjective well-being not only because of direct financial achievement but also because of their perceptions and beliefs about their relative social status.
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spelling pubmed-54392432017-06-06 The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility Huang, Silin Hou, Jiawei Sun, Ling Dou, Donghui Liu, Xia Zhang, Hongchuan Front Psychol Psychology Although previous investigations have agreed that Chinese rural-to-urban migrants’ socioeconomic status (SES) increases with their migration, the association between SES and subjective well-being is uncertain. To address this research gap, the present study proposed that the association between objective SES and subjective well-being is mediated by subjective SES. This model was tested with a sample of 432 Chinese rural-to-urban migrants. The results indicate a significant association between objective SES and subjective well-being and a partial mediating effect of subjective SES. Furthermore, subjective social mobility, which is one’s expectation about the possibility to move upward in the social hierarchy, was found to moderate both the direct path from objective SES to subjective well-being and the indirect path from subjective SES to subjective well-being. These findings suggest that Chinese rural-to-urban migrants gained in subjective well-being not only because of direct financial achievement but also because of their perceptions and beliefs about their relative social status. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5439243/ /pubmed/28588531 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00819 Text en Copyright © 2017 Huang, Hou, Sun, Dou, Liu and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Huang, Silin
Hou, Jiawei
Sun, Ling
Dou, Donghui
Liu, Xia
Zhang, Hongchuan
The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title_full The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title_fullStr The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title_full_unstemmed The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title_short The Effects of Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Subjective Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Mobility
title_sort effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on subjective well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in china: the moderating role of subjective social mobility
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00819
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