The Income Level Of Urban Residents And The Relationship Between Subjective Well-being Research

Many psychologists paid attention to the area of subjective well being as it is an important topicof the human development. With the fast developing of economic and the improving of people’s income,there are more and more arguments on whether money can buy happiness. This paper tries to explore thelatent relation between income and subjective well being from a different view. This paper mainly studiesthe relation between income and subjective well being in the city of China.By multistage sampling，580urban residents from6cities were assessed by Positive-NegativeAffect Inventory and Satisfaction With Life Scale. Combining with their absolute income, relative incomeand urban residents’ average income, using description analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysisand multiple regression analysis, the results show that:1) The absolute income had a significant main effecton subjective well being. Relative income had a mediating effect on the relation between absolute incomeand subjective well being. The higher absolute income was relative to higher subjective well being.Absolute income affected subjective well being through relative income;2) The results of multiple levelregression implicated that urban residents’ average income significantly affected individual’s subjectivewell being. Individual sensed more positive affect and negative affect and higher life satisfaction in citieswith higher urban residents’ average income.Adopted the standard ample, the present study discussed the relationship between the income ofChina and life satisfaction and the mediation role of the mean income among the both. It is verymeaningful for guidance the society and how to improve the subjective well-being of people in China.