A Comparative Study of Subjective Happiness in China and Japan

학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 국제학과, 2017. 2. 한영혜.Based on CGSS2012 and JGSS2012 datasets, the author of this paper conducts a comparative analysis of Chinese and Japanese peoples subjective happiness. And the determinants are roughly divided into two groups, including socioeconomic factors and social capital factors. The findings are as follows: Social capital factors proved to have strong influence on both Chinese and Japanese society. Our model testified that these selected social capital factors are crucial in determining individuals happiness. However, social capital factors affect happiness in different way. When comparing male and female in each country, males happiness is more related to social capital than female in Japan. On the contrary, there is no big difference by gender in China.CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2. DATA AND METHOD 5 CHAPTER 3. TREND OF HAPPINESS IN CHINA AND JAPAN 9 3.1 ANNUAL TREND OF HAPPINESS IN CHINA AND JAPAN 9 3.2 TREND OF HAPPINESS IN 2012. 12 CHAPTER 4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS 14 4.1 EXPLANATION OF VARIABLES 14 4.2 LITERATURE REVIEW 15 4.3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 21 4.4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 27 CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HAPPINESS 31 5.1 HOW TO DEFINE SOCIAL CAPITAL 31 5.2 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 36 5.2.1 Structural Social Capital and Happiness 39 5.2.2 Cognitive Social Capital and Happiness 41 5.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 43 CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION 45 BIBLIOGRAPHY 48Maste