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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Impact of Environmental Regulation on Residents’
Life Satisfaction: Based on the Subjective
Cognitive Perspective of the Residents
1
School of Economics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Submission date: 2024-06-30
Final revision date: 2024-09-04
Acceptance date: 2024-10-28
Online publication date: 2024-12-23
KEYWORDS
environmental regulationresidents’ life satisfactionsubjective cognitionpollution perceptionself-rated health
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The implementation of environmental regulation holds positive significance for the improvement
of the ecological environment and social well-being. In order to explore the impact of environmental
regulation on residents’ life satisfaction, an empirical analysis was conducted using data from the China
Family Panel Studies (CFPS-2020), focusing on a sample of 13,669 respondents across 25 provinces
in China. The mediation effect model was also used to investigate the influence mechanism from the
residents’ subjective cognitive perspective. The results indicate that: (1) Environmental regulation has a
significant effect on residents’ life satisfaction, as confirmed by various robustness tests. (2) The effect
of environmental regulation on improving residents’ life satisfaction is more pronounced among urban
residents, young people, and those with a college education or higher. (3) Environmental regulation
improves residents’ life satisfaction by minimizing their pollution perception and enhancing their selfrated
health. Based on these findings, the government needs to continuously strengthen the supervision
of environmental regulations, enhance residents’ trust in environmental policies, and formulate more
accurate environmental improvement measures for different groups of residents simultaneously.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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