Job Mobility and Subjective Well-Being among New-Generation Migrant Workers in China: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust

Feng Zhang, Dan Liu and Xiaowei Geng ()
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Feng Zhang: Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Dan Liu: School of Educational Science, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China
Xiaowei Geng: Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-12

Abstract: New-generation migrant workers refers to those born in 1980 or thereafter, who become the majority of rural–urban migrants. New-generation migrant workers in Chinese cities are struggling with a lack of urban resources, which may lead to low well-being. On the basis of a questionnaire survey of 203 new-generation migrant workers, we used a multiple regression analysis to study new-generation migrant workers’ well-being and the mechanism underlying the effect of job mobility on well-being. The job mobility scale, interpersonal trust scale, and Affect Balance Scale were used. Results showed that job mobility was positively correlated with new-generation migrant workers’ subjective well-being and interpersonal trust, and interpersonal trust was positively correlated with subjective well-being. Interpersonal trust mediated the effect of job mobility on subjective well-being. In conclusion, job mobility can bring some benefits to new-generation migrant workers, that is, job mobility may increase their subjective well-being by increasing their interpersonal trust.

Keywords: new-generation migrant workers; subjective well-being; job mobility; interpersonal trust (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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