Abstract
Under the guidance of people-oriented development concepts, improving residents’ life satisfaction has gradually become the goal of urban governance. Based on Chinese household tracking survey data and national socio-economic statistics, this study used the entropy method, multi-layer linear regression model and geographically weighted regression model and discusses the spatial heterogeneity of the impact of objective environmental characteristics and subjective perceived characteristics of urban residential environments on residents’ life satisfaction. It is of great importance to study the mechanisms through which subjective and objective characteristics of urban human settlements influence living satisfaction among residents. It is also important to discuss how to improve living satisfaction levels through the urban human settlements and to realize high-quality urban development. The research results show that in 2018, the overall level of life satisfaction among Chinese urban residents was relatively high. However, it is still necessary to continue to optimize the urban human settlements to improve residents’ life satisfaction. The objective characteristics of the urban human settlements, such as natural environmental comfort and environmental health, have a significant positive impact on residents’ life satisfaction. Residents’ subjective perceptions of government integrity, environmental protection, wealth gap, social security, medical conditions and medical level, as well as residents’ individual gender, age and health status also have a significant impact on residents’ life satisfaction. The direction and intensity of effects of different elements of the urban human settlements and residents’ personal attributes on urban residents’ life satisfaction have different characteristics in different regions.
Highlights
With the advancement of people-oriented development concepts, the focus of urban construction has gradually shifted to improving the well-being of residents
In order to explore whether different regional human settlements have different effects on residents’ life satisfaction, the regions were divided into the east, middle and west divisions of China and the influences of objective characteristics of urban human settlements, subjective characteristics of urban human settlements and residents’ personal attributes on residents’ life satisfaction were analyzed by region; the results are shown in Table 5, where the F-test values are all significant at the 1% level and the fitting effect of each model is good
This study focused on residents’ life satisfaction, used multi-layer linear regression models to analyze the influence of objective and subjective characteristics of urban human settlements and used geographically weighted regression models to analyze the spatial heterogeneity of these effects
Summary
With the advancement of people-oriented development concepts, the focus of urban construction has gradually shifted to improving the well-being of residents. Relevant objective elements of human settlements, such as population density, convenient traffic conditions, good public security environment, perfect infrastructure and a healthy natural environment, can all improve residents’ living satisfaction to a certain extent [27,28,29]. Environmental pollution, such as domestic waste and wastewater discharge, may cause negative emotions among residents, which may negatively affect life satisfaction [30]. Other studies demonstrated that residents’ perceptions of government service quality and the social security have a more pronounced impacts on life satisfaction than objective environments [38,39,40]
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