ASSOCIATIONS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION WITH LIFE SATISFACTION UNDER THE NOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECT: A MULTILEVEL PATH ANALYSIS FOR RESIDENTS FROM 26 RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES IN BEIJING
YANG Jie1, TAO Yin-hua1,2, LIU Zhi-lin3, CHAI Yan-wei1
1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2. Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 BL, The Netherlands;
3. School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract With the rapid urbanization and residents' increasing living standards, subjective well-being, as a key aspect of social sustainable development, has been widely discussed. Employing daily activity and subjective well-being survey data in Beijing, this study takes the residential neighborhood as the geographic context to analyze the holistic relationship among neighborhood environment, social interaction and life satisfaction. The results from multilevel path analysis indicate that after controlling individual and household socioeconomic attributes, the direct effect of built environment on life satisfaction is mild, among which only the park accessibility shows a significant and positive correlation with life satisfaction. Social interaction has been proved to partly explain the pathway linking physical environment with life satisfaction. Increased access to parks and public facilities leads to more frequent social interaction and closer neighborly relationship, and thus improving life satisfaction. Perceived air pollution and noise exposure not only directly link to life satisfaction, but also indirectly relate with life satisfaction through the mediation of interaction with neighbors.
YANG Jie,TAO Yin-hua,LIU Zhi-lin等. ASSOCIATIONS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION WITH LIFE SATISFACTION UNDER THE NOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECT: A MULTILEVEL PATH ANALYSIS FOR RESIDENTS FROM 26 RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES IN BEIJING[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 36(2): 27-34,54.
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