The Research About Subjective Well-being Of Rural Residents In Four Counties And The Relation Of Subjective Well-being And Health

After the 16th National Congress of Communist Party, the harmonious society is a focus of public attention. Harmonious society is the aim of society development and progressional direction, the final target of building harmonious society is for the happiness of all people. Enhancing the happiness of nine hundred million Chinese peasants is new way to build harmonious society.And the government must construct new villages and make rural residents live happily, only in this way can the harmonious society be advanced and safeguarded. So the subjective well-being (SWB) of rural residents is researched by many subjects.SWB is the global assessment about life quality made on the interviewee'own, and it makes up of life satisfaction and feeling experience. The basic characteristic of SWB is holistic, subjective and relatively stable.The existing measuring methods of SWB are surveys of life satisfaction and experience sampling method. Surveys of life satisfaction are restricted by many factors, so the results are not exact. And the disadvantages of experience sampling method include high cost and respondents' burden. The day reconstruction method used in the research can make up the disadvantages, and it has been applied in foreign countries, not in China.The research about SWB and the relation of SWB and health is mainly about retrospective assessment in china and other countries. And the disadvantages of the measuring method affect the reliability of the results.But the relative research about SWB from day reconstruction method is absent.The main aim of the research is measuring SWB of rural residents by day reconstruction method, discussing the actuality of SWB and its influencing factors, analyzing the relation of SWB and health, which aim to offer useful recommendations to improve the SWB of rural residents.Anyue county in Sichuan, Caoxian and Chiping county in Shandong ,and Linquan county in Anhui were selected as samples .According to socio-economic development levels and geographical distributions, adopting cluster stratified random sampling we investigated 1810 households and 2977 people. Survey information includes qualitative and quantitative data, using a single factor and multi-factor methods to complete the study objectives.Key findings:①Health factor, rural residents are lack of the health care consciousness,so the body ache is one of the main problems affecting their health. The stress from every aspect like study, life and work influences their emotional health.and the elderly have problems in both physical and emotional health.②Among the three kinds of activities, people get the most happiness in entertainment activities and lowest in indispensable doings.But the entertainment activities are bald, watching TV is the main activity, and the interacting activities between peasants are lacking.③Through single factor analysis, we find the influencing factors of SWB include gender, education, marriage, net income per capita, relative economy status, insomnia, depression and time press.Men are happier than women; unmarried people are happier than divorced and married; there is a positive relationship between education, net income per capita, relative economy status and SWB, and negative relationship between insomnia, depression, time press and SWB. Insomnia, depression and time press have relatively greater effects on SWB than life circumstances and demographic features.④Through multi-factor analysis, controlling the contamination of confounding factors, we find that gender,marriage and education do not have significant effects on SWB.Relative economy status is protecting factor. Time press, insomnia and depression are hazard factors.⑤SWB and health have interaction effects. SWB and EQ-5D are correlated .the correlation between SWB and axiety/depression is the biggest, and correlation between SWB and self care is the smallest. The SWB and VAS have positive relativity.The happier residents have bigger VAS.Conclusion and recommendation:①Entertainment activities in villages shoule be increasd, especially the interacting activities between peasants.②Rural residents should allocate their time reasonably and spend more time on entertainment activities.③Women should be taken more care of to enhance their SWB.④The government should attach importance to education and reeducation,and enhance SWB of the low-educated.⑤The relative income should be adjusted to decrease the gap between the rich and the poor.⑥Residents should alleviate their stress and improve the emotional health.