Social capital, policy fairness, and subjective life satisfaction of earthquake survivors in Wenchuan, China: a longitudinal study based on post-earthquake survey data

• Published in: Health and quality of life outcomes Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 350 - 12
• Main Authors: Wang, Dianxi, Li, Danyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 28.10.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; China; Community relations; Correlation analysis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disaster management; Disaster relief; Disaster victims; Disasters; Earthquake construction; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Earthquakes - statistics & numerical data; Evaluation; Female; Government policy; Happiness; Humans; Hypotheses; Life satisfaction; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Policy; Policy fairness; Polls & surveys; Post traumatic stress disorder; Public policy; Quality of Life; Random sampling; Sampling methods; Seismic activity; Social aspects; Social Capital; Social networks; Social organization; Socioeconomic Factors; Statistical sampling; Surveys and Questionnaires; Survival; Survivors - psychology; Survivors - statistics & numerical data; System theory; Wenchuan earthquake; China; Wenchuan earthquake; Policy fairness; Social capital; Life satisfaction

Existing research has rarely examined an earthquake's sustained impact and the trajectory of the earthquake survivors' life satisfaction over time. This study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in life satisfaction of Wenchuan earthquake survivors and the impact of social capital and gov...