Abstract
As an important component of urban construction, the community sustainable construction is of great significance to the social development. Despite the importance of the social dimension of community sustainability, it has received relatively little attention when compared to the sustainability of environmental and economic dimensions. Based on the literature review, it is found that the social dimension of the sustainable community, such as residents’ psychological feelings, social capital, has a strong effect on the sustainability of communities. This paper, therefore, conducts an empirical study on the mediating role of emotion experience on the associations between social capital and life satisfaction. Research on the relationship between them can help to generate synergies and strengthen the effect of promoting community sustainable development. A total of 229 complete responses from residents in China is used for data analysis. Results from the multiple linear regression analysis indicate that social capital has the significant positive effect on life satisfaction; the influence of social capital on life satisfaction is partly mediated by positive and negative affect, the social capital improves the life satisfaction through promoting positive affect, while it enhances the life satisfaction through restraining the negative affect. Based on the relationship between them, the relevant recommendations for the measures on the sustainable community can be proposed.
Highlights
Sustainable development has been recognized as a priority by most countries [1]
The results show that the significance or the correlation coefficients of the structural social capital and cognitive social capital have significant decrease, while the regression coefficient of negative affect is −0.374 (p < 0.01), which is significantly correlated
This paper tries to illustrate that a sense of social sustainability can have a catalytic effect on community sustainability construction by analyzing the relationship between social capital, emotion experience and life satisfaction
Summary
Sustainable development has been recognized as a priority by most countries [1]. About 65% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by the year 2025. The community is a place of people’s social life in a certain geographical area and a place for belonging. To realize the healthy and orderly development of the city, the first step is to conduct the community sustainable construction [4]. The economy and the environment construction activities have become household terms and always been the focus of community development [5]. With the improvement of living standards, people’s requirements for the residential area have been continuously improved [6], non-materialistic lifestyle may improve well-being to some extent [7]. From the social perspective, social sustainability is an important part of urban sustainable development
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