Table 1 Literature on cultural activities and well-being.
From: Hedonic adaptation in cultural consumption: evidence from China Family Panel Studies
Author(s) | IV | DV | Model | Main findings | Dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Becchetti et al. (2012) | Social leisure | Life satisfaction | - | Social leisure has positive and significant effect on life satisfaction. | German |
Brown et al. (2015) | Cultural activities participation | Life satisfaction | Linear | There is an independent positive correlation between participating in sports, heritage, and actively creative leisure activities and life satisfaction. | UK |
Hand (2018) | Arts attendance | Happiness | Linear | A significant relationship is found at the lower quartile, and a moderate relationship (significant at the 10% level) is found at the median level. | UK |
Węziak-Białowolska et al. (2019) | Creative activities and cultural events participation | Well-being | Linear | Results confirm a positive causative relationship between cultural attendance, cultural participation, and well-being outcomes. The relationships are found to depend on personality. | UK |
Vegheș (2020) | Cultural participation | Quality of life | - | Higher cultural participation leads to better quality of life | European Union |
Wu (2020) | Conspicuous and basic consumption expenditures | Life satisfaction | Linear | Conspicuous consumption expenditures have a positive influence on life satisfaction for individuals in all income groups. Basic consumption expenditures have a negative influence for people in the lowest income quartile. | Australia |
Denti et al. (2022) | Cultural consumption | Hate | Linear | Cultural consumption is effective in combating hate. | Italian |
Murtin and Zanobetti (2024) | Cultural participation | Well-being | - | A simple model of time allocation is used to show that experienced well-being is one of the reasons why individuals engage into cultural activities. | Canada, France, Italy, UK, and US |
Our study | Cultural consumption | Subjective well-being | Nonlinear | This study examines the nonlinear impact of cultural consumption on subjective well-being in the Chinese context, while also considering how internet use moderates this relationship. | Longitudinal (China) |
