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  • Behavioral Economics
  • Public Health

Background:

  • China's "common prosperity" initiative aims to reduce inequality and promote societal well-being.
  • Understanding factors that encourage charitable giving is crucial for social development.
  • The link between physical activity and prosocial behavior, such as charitable donations, is under-explored in the Chinese context.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between physical exercise and charitable donation behavior in China.
  • To examine the psychological mechanisms (social responsibility, subjective well-being) mediating this relationship.
  • To assess the implications for promoting civic engagement and common prosperity.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of nationally representative data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2012).
  • Multivariate regression analyses to estimate the association between physical exercise and donation behavior.
  • Propensity score matching, alternative outcome measures, and mediation analyses were employed for robustness and to test psychological pathways.

Main Results:

  • A significant positive association was found between physical exercise and both the likelihood and amount of charitable donations.
  • Robustness checks confirmed the stability of these findings across various analytical approaches.
  • Social responsibility and subjective well-being were identified as partial mediators in the exercise-donation relationship.

Conclusions:

  • Promoting mass participation in physical exercise can foster social responsibility and enhance subjective well-being.
  • Physical activity may serve as a pathway to increased civic engagement and charitable giving.
  • Encouraging sports participation aligns with and can support societal goals like advancing common prosperity in China.