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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Gender, Sex and Sexualities
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1341995
This article is part of the Research Topic Seeking Equal Opportunities and Safe Environments: Research from a Gender Perspective View all 16 articles

Chinese women 's years of education and subjective well-being: an empirical analysis based on ordered Logit model and coupling coordination model

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 School of Literature and Journalism and Communication, Xihua University, Chengdu, China
  • 2 Xihua University Yibin Branch Management Committee, Yibin, China
  • 3 School of Computer and Software Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

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    In modern society, the improvement of women 's education level has become one of the important indicators of national development and social progress. Although there are many useful explorations on the relationship between education and subjective well-being, the research on women 's years of education and subjective well-being is very limited. The article focuses on women 's years of education to determine whether and how to affect subjective well-being. This study is based on the China general social survey in 2021. The ordered Logit model was used to analyze the impact of women 's years of education on subjective well-being, and a binary coupling coordination model was constructed to test the above two variables. The results show that the longer the education years of women, the stronger the subjective well-being. The benchmark regression results show that women 's years of education have positive and negative effects on subjective well-being through economic status, physical and mental health, ecological environment, social cognition and personal cognition. The analysis of coupling coordination degree shows that the coupling between the years of education and subjective well-being of women in coastal areas and economically developed areas is the strongest, and the subjective well-being is better realized by increasing the years of education. Based on the above research results, this paper provides some practical suggestions for improving women 's subjective well-being, and provides some valuable references for women to effectively balance husband-wife relationship, family relationship and work relationship, improve women 's years of education and better obtain happiness.

    Keywords: Subjective well-being, Years of education, sex differences, logit model, coupling coordination model, CGSS, Authentic proof analysis

    Received: 22 Nov 2023; Accepted: 02 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qin, Wei and Zhu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Pingqiang Wei, Xihua University Yibin Branch Management Committee, Yibin, China

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