The Relationship Between Social Connectedness and Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Couples: An Actor-Partner-Interdependence Model Analysis

Ranran Li, Yibing Chen, Xunan Li, Minfu He, Wenjun Li, Ziqiang Chen, Chengrun Liu, Yixuan Liu, Ruirui Guo, Wenjing Zhang, Xinyu Gao, Yachen Wei and Xiumin Zhang ()
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Ranran Li: Jilin University
Yibing Chen: Jilin University
Xunan Li: University of Washington
Minfu He: Jilin University
Wenjun Li: Jilin University
Ziqiang Chen: Jilin University
Chengrun Liu: Jilin University
Yixuan Liu: Jilin University
Ruirui Guo: Jilin University
Wenjing Zhang: Jilin University
Xinyu Gao: Jilin University
Yachen Wei: Jilin University
Xiumin Zhang: Jilin University

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2025, vol. 26, issue 5, No 8, 19 pages

Abstract: Abstract Social connectedness is closely related to subjective well-being. Previous research has focused on the impact of individuals and neglected the analysis of their complex relationship at the couple level. This study was aimed at analyzing the interrelationship between the social connectedness and subjective well-being of couples. The data was taken from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS 2020) and included variables such as socio-demographics, subjective well-being, social connectedness, marital satisfaction, subjective social status and mental health. Based on IBM SPSS 24.0 and Mplus 8.0, this study used Shapley decomposition and constructed the actor-partner-interdependence model to assess the associations between couples. This study included 12,164 married participants from China, including 6082 husbands (age: mean = 49.97, standard deviation = 13.69) and 6082 wives (age: mean = 48.23, standard deviation = 13.57). The results demonstrated that Chinese wives had significantly lower levels of subjective well-being than their husbands. Social connectedness contributed much more to the subjective well-being of both spouses than sociodemographic characteristics, marital satisfaction, mental health, subjective social status and other factors. The actor effect showed a positive effect of couples' social connectedness on subjective well-being (husbands: standardized coefficient = 0.388, p

Keywords: Social connectedness; Subjective well-being; Couples; APIM; Regional culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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