Who Is Happier in China? Exploring Determinant Factors Using Religion as a Moderator.

¿Quién es más feliz en China? Exploración de los factores determinantes utilizando la religión como moderador.

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Abstract
The relationship between religion and happiness has been seriously understudied in non-Western and non-Islamic societies. Taking religious identity and religious practice as strata, the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data were used to examine the predicting power of health, politics, and social relationships with regard to happiness in four different groups, as follows: People with a religious identity and practice, people with no religious identity but with a practice, people with a religious identity but no practice, and people with neither a religious identity nor practice. Multiple regression analyses were conducted using the Ordinary Least Squares method. The results demonstrate the influence of the independent variables in the four groups, thus confirming the expectation that different religious practices, as well as identities, play a vital role in moderating the degree of happiness. Physical and mental health are significant predictors of happiness regardless of different religious situations, with the effect of mental health here found to be greater in magnitude on happiness than that of physical health. Political participation was not found to be related to happiness, but having a left-wing political attitude did emerge as strongly predicting happiness. The results concerning social relationships further consolidate the hypothesis that religious practice should be taken into consideration separately from religious identity. This study indicates the importance of further investigating religious practice as an independent factor in religious studies in the context of Chinese society.
La relación entre la religión y la felicidad ha sido escasamente investigada en las sociedades no occidentales y no islámicas. Tomando la identidad religiosa y la práctica religiosa como estratos, se utilizaron los datos de la Encuesta Social General de China (CGSS) de 2015 para examinar el poder predictivo de la salud, la política y las relaciones sociales respecto a la felicidad en cuatro grupos distintos, a saber: personas con identidad y práctica religiosas, personas sin identidad religiosa pero con práctica, personas con identidad religiosa pero sin práctica, y personas sin identidad ni práctica religiosas. Se llevaron a cabo análisis de regresión múltiple mediante el método de mínimos cuadrados ordinarios. Los resultados demuestran la influencia de las variables independientes en los cuatro grupos, confirmando así la expectativa de que las distintas prácticas religiosas, al igual que las identidades, desempeñan un papel fundamental en la moderación del grado de felicidad. La salud física y mental constituyen predictores significativos de la felicidad con independencia de las diferentes situaciones religiosas, hallándose en este caso que el efecto de la salud mental sobre la felicidad es de mayor magnitud que el de la salud física. No se encontró que la participación política estuviera relacionada con la felicidad; sin embargo, manifestar una postura política de izquierda sí emergió como un fuerte predictor de la felicidad. Los resultados concernientes a las relaciones sociales consolidan aún más la hipótesis de que la práctica religiosa debe ser considerada de manera independiente a la identidad religiosa. Este estudio señala la importancia de profundizar en la investigación de la práctica religiosa como un factor independiente en los estudios religiosos dentro del contexto de la sociedad china.
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Authors Sun, Yingying;Zhang, Yue;
Journal International journal of environmental research and public health
Year 2019
DOI
E4308
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Keywords
health politics happiness social relationships religious identity religious practice augmented reality multi-robot smart factories virtual lrf

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