City Health Examination Evaluation and Subjective Well-Being in Resource-Based Cities in China.

During the last decades, the association between the quality of the urban living environment and individual subjective well-being (SWB) has received wide attention in many metropolitan areas across the world. However, few studies have focused on the effects of the quality of the urban living environment on SWB from a human perception perspective and concerned the underdeveloped areas such as resource-based cities. Drawing on a large-scale social survey data set collected from the City Health Examination Evaluation (CHEE) in China, this paper employed the Geographical Detector method to reveal the association between the CHEE and individual subjective well-being in four resource-based cities in China (Ganzhou, Huangshi, Jingdezhen, and Luoyang). The results showed that the SWB and CHEE of the respondents in the resource-based cities are generally good, with mean evaluation scores of 4.15 and 4.27, respectively. The factor detector results indicated that the eight subdimensions of the CHEE are all significantly associated with individual SWB in the resource-based cities, with the q-statistic values in the following decreasing order: life amenities > urban management > urban vitality > diversity and inclusiveness > security and resilience > convenient transportation > urban landscape and scenery > ecological livability. Furthermore, individual socioeconomic attributes, such as gender, hukou, house tenure, car ownership, age, household income, and occupation, were also significantly associated with individual SWB. The interaction factor results revealed that there are bilinear enhancing and nonlinear enhancing effects on individual SWB after the interaction between the subdimensions in the CHEE. Regarding city types, the average evaluation scores of the CHEE and SWB in the declining cities, mature cities, and regenerating cities decreases in turn, and the subdimensions of the CHEE had heterogeneous effects on individual SWB across city types. The findings in this study could provide insights into improving individual SWB in China's resource-based cities by enhancing the quality of the urban living environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]