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Article: When Are People Unhappy? Corruption Experience, Environment, and Life Satisfaction in Mainland China
Title | When Are People Unhappy? Corruption Experience, Environment, and Life Satisfaction in Mainland China |
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Keywords | China Corruption environment Corruption experience Happiness Life satisfaction Moderating effect |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1389-4978 |
Citation | Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, v. 17 n. 3, p. 1125-1147 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Previous research on corruption and happiness has typically considered corruption perception as an indicator of government quality; however, the impact of direct personal experience of corruption has been largely overlooked. The current research, using the Asian Barometer Survey I data set on China, fills this gap. We found that the negative effects of personal experience of corruption on happiness are moderated by the general corruption environment, as measured by the corruption–victimization rate of a province. Corruption experience reduces life satisfaction significantly only when the external environment has a low level of corruption. We applied concepts from the broken windows theory to provide theoretical explanations for this phenomenon and used a series of models to test the robustness of our findings. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210907 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.480 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wu, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-23T05:59:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-23T05:59:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, v. 17 n. 3, p. 1125-1147 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1389-4978 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210907 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Previous research on corruption and happiness has typically considered corruption perception as an indicator of government quality; however, the impact of direct personal experience of corruption has been largely overlooked. The current research, using the Asian Barometer Survey I data set on China, fills this gap. We found that the negative effects of personal experience of corruption on happiness are moderated by the general corruption environment, as measured by the corruption–victimization rate of a province. Corruption experience reduces life satisfaction significantly only when the external environment has a low level of corruption. We applied concepts from the broken windows theory to provide theoretical explanations for this phenomenon and used a series of models to test the robustness of our findings. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1389-4978 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Happiness Studies | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Corruption environment | - |
dc.subject | Corruption experience | - |
dc.subject | Happiness | - |
dc.subject | Life satisfaction | - |
dc.subject | Moderating effect | - |
dc.title | When Are People Unhappy? Corruption Experience, Environment, and Life Satisfaction in Mainland China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhu, J: zhujn@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhu, J=rp01624 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10902-015-9635-7 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84928136619 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 243770 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 17 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1125 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1147 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000375077700013 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1389-4978 | - |