Housing difficulties, health status and life satisfaction

Frontiers in Psychology

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Mingzhi Hu¹  Yinxin Su²  Xiaofen Yu¹ 

[1] Department of Engineering Management, School of Management, Chinese Academy of Housing and Real Estate, Zhejiang University of Technology;Department of Urban Development and Management, College of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University

关键词: Housing difficulties;    life satisfaction;    physical health;    psychological health;    mechanisms;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1024875

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This study examines the effects of housing difficulties on life satisfaction. By using longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies survey, we find strong evidence that households who experience housing difficulties are less satisfied with their lives than those who do not after controlling for a wide range of household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and county and year fixed effects. Our estimated results are robust to unobservable household characteristics, model misspecification and selection bias. We also provide explanations for the negative effects of housing difficulties on life satisfaction through which housing difficulties are detrimental to physical and psychological health. Life satisfaction remains negatively associated with housing difficulties even after controlling for health status.

【 授权许可】

CC BY