The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 3011-3017
Published online 2015 November 12. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509013011
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-3011

Empirical Study of Citizen Happiness Based on Individual Characteristics and Life Indexes

Sun Yujin and Chen Kang
School of Engineering Management, Suzhou University, Suzhou 234000, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

validation research is carried out in this paper to find out whether happiness of citizens with different individual characteristics and life indexes is different, and what factors exert an influence on happiness. 271 urban residents were taken as the survey respondents, and stratified sampling was employed in this research to compare and analyze happiness of citizens with different individual characteristics and life indexes. Pearson's Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the relationship among the three, and a standardized regression equation was established to construct the model influence for citizen happiness. The research findings illustrate that the relationship of family and marriage, income, generations and living environment can predict the happiness level of citizens, and that economic factor is still crucial to prefecture- level cities in the middle. Recommendations are countermeasures are presented as per the findings.

Keywords:

Empirical analysis, happiness, individual characteristics, living index.