Social Capital, Psychological Needs, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from China

Chuanbao You; Ling Li

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Social Capital, Psychological Needs, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from China

Chuanbao You, Ling Li

Published in International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 10, Issue 6)

Received: 26 November 2022 Accepted: 10 December 2022 Published: 23 December 2022

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Social capital is an important factor affecting consumers' consumption experience, and the research on its internal psychological mechanism is worth further exploration. However, few studies have explored the internal mechanism of influencing consumers' subjective well-being at the intersection of sociology and psychology. Accordingly, this study adopted the method of questionnaire survey（questionnaires were distributed in 5 cities in China）to explore the internal psychological mechanism of consumers' social capital on their subjective well-being, and then verified the research hypothesis models. The study found that, (1) The psychological needs of consumers have a partial intermediary effect between social capital and subjective well-being. Consumers' social capital can not only have a direct impact on subjective well-being, but also have an indirect impact on subjective well-being through psychological needs. (2) The intermediary effect of consumer identity on psychological needs has a lifting effect, which regulates the second half path of the intermediary process. In other words, the impact of psychological needs on subjective well-being increases with the increase of consumer identity, and the impact of consumers' social capital on subjective well-being has a regulatory intermediary effect. These findings showed that the way to promote people's subjective well-being in a consumerist society should strengthen the consumer identity and consumers' psychological needs, so as to improve people's subjective well-being while promoting the generation of consumption behaviors.

Published in	International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 10, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijefm.20221006.21
Page(s)	391-399
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Social Capital, Consumption Experience, Consumer Identity, Psychological Needs, Subjective Well-Being

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Chuanbao You, Ling Li. Social Capital, Psychological Needs, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from China. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2022;10(6):391-399. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20221006.21

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Chuanbao You

Press of Nanjing Sport Institute, Nanjing Sport Institute, Nanjing, China
Ling Li

School of Sports and Health Technology, Jilin Sport Institute, Changchun, China

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