Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors

[eng] In this PhD thesis, I have analyzed the happiness, life satisfaction and work satisfaction of foreign scientists working in China, as well as which factors influence them. The main goal of my PhD thesis is to understand the degree and influencing factors of happiness and satisfaction of this c...

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Autor: Gu, Linzhi
Tipo de documento: tese
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/192580
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http://hdl.handle.net/10803/687487
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Felicitat
Satisfacció
Satisfacció en el treball
Treballadors estrangers
Treball qualificat
Xina
Happiness
Satisfaction
Job satisfaction
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
China
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spelling Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factorsGu, LinzhiFelicitatSatisfaccióSatisfacció en el treballTreballadors estrangersTreball qualificatXinaHappinessSatisfactionJob satisfactionForeign workersSkilled laborChina[eng] In this PhD thesis, I have analyzed the happiness, life satisfaction and work satisfaction of foreign scientists working in China, as well as which factors influence them. The main goal of my PhD thesis is to understand the degree and influencing factors of happiness and satisfaction of this collective of people, so that China can re-adjust policies to maximize it. I have found that around 19 statistically significant variables influence the three dependent variables (happiness, work satisfaction, and life satisfaction) in bivariate correlation. In order to deep into the multivariate statistical analysis, I have selected 11 variables by six groups into the model. The social demographic factors (gender, age, religion belief, education level, among others) don’t show statistically significant influence on any of the three dependent variables after controlling variables. However, the multi-statistic research demonstrates significant influence of variables from family background, economic division, life division, work division and social support division. Finally, I statistically found that the production of foreign talents working in China is not as significant as that of local Chinese scientists, which creates a dilemma for foreign talents working in China, as the working progress produce both satisfaction and dissatisfaction.Universitat de BarcelonaRodríguez, Josep A. (Josep Antoni)Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia2023info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/192580http://hdl.handle.net/10803/687487Tesis Doctorals - Departament - Sociologiareponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglés(c) Gu, Linzhi, 2023info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1925802026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
title Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
spellingShingle Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
Gu, Linzhi
Felicitat
Satisfacció
Satisfacció en el treball
Treballadors estrangers
Treball qualificat
Xina
Happiness
Satisfaction
Job satisfaction
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
China
title_short Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
title_full Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
title_fullStr Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
title_full_unstemmed Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
title_sort Happiness and satisfaction of foreign experts working in China and their influencing factors
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gu, Linzhi
author Gu, Linzhi
author_facet Gu, Linzhi
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez, Josep A. (Josep Antoni)
Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Felicitat
Satisfacció
Satisfacció en el treball
Treballadors estrangers
Treball qualificat
Xina
Happiness
Satisfaction
Job satisfaction
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
China
topic Felicitat
Satisfacció
Satisfacció en el treball
Treballadors estrangers
Treball qualificat
Xina
Happiness
Satisfaction
Job satisfaction
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
China
description [eng] In this PhD thesis, I have analyzed the happiness, life satisfaction and work satisfaction of foreign scientists working in China, as well as which factors influence them. The main goal of my PhD thesis is to understand the degree and influencing factors of happiness and satisfaction of this collective of people, so that China can re-adjust policies to maximize it. I have found that around 19 statistically significant variables influence the three dependent variables (happiness, work satisfaction, and life satisfaction) in bivariate correlation. In order to deep into the multivariate statistical analysis, I have selected 11 variables by six groups into the model. The social demographic factors (gender, age, religion belief, education level, among others) don’t show statistically significant influence on any of the three dependent variables after controlling variables. However, the multi-statistic research demonstrates significant influence of variables from family background, economic division, life division, work division and social support division. Finally, I statistically found that the production of foreign talents working in China is not as significant as that of local Chinese scientists, which creates a dilemma for foreign talents working in China, as the working progress produce both satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
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