Career Development, Institutional Factors, Social Factors and Urban Young Returnees’ Happiness in the Context of Healthy China

Feiwei Shen, Jing Zou, Xianhong Huang, Cong Wang and Mingjie Zhao
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Feiwei Shen: College of Public Administration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Jing Zou: School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Xianhong Huang: Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Cong Wang: School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Mingjie Zhao: School of Finance, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 15, 1-20

Abstract: In the context of the Healthy China 2030 Plan, the importance of the happiness of urban young returnees should not be underestimated. Based on a large-scale social survey of social practices in China, this paper applies a hierarchical linear regression model (HLM) and a structural equation model (SEM) to investigate the determinants of urban young returnees’ happiness. The results show that the happiness of urban young returnees in China is not only influenced by their socio-demographic characteristics, such as age and education, but mainly by their occupational development, institutional factors (especially the employment and entrepreneurship policy system) and social factors (physical environment and urban rural relationship), which are different from those of ordinary residents. Further study shows that occupational development indirectly affects the happiness of urban young returnees through relationship adaptation, collective adaptation and material adaptation, the indirect effects accounts for 42.18%, 21.64% and 36.18%, respectively. Institutional factors exert an indirect effect on the happiness of urban young returnees through relationship adaptation (46.80%) and material adaptation (53.20%). Social factors indirectly affect the happiness of urban young returnees through relationship adaptation (44.20%), collective adaptation (16.96%) and material adaptation (38.84%). Policies to improve the happiness of urban young returnees are suggested.

Keywords: urban young returnees; happiness; healthy China; HLM; SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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