Subjective well-being and its influencing factors of employees from enterprises and public institutions in Minhang District of Shanghai

Background Along with the promotion of Healthy City concept in China, and the recognition of workplaces as the basic unit to implement Healthy City strategy, more and more attention has been paid to the improvement of employees' health and well-being.

Objective This investigation explores the subjective well-being and related factors among employees from enterprises and public institutions in Minhang District of Shanghai.

Methods Through a cluster random sampling strategy, the employees from 25 enterprises and public institutions in Minhang District of Shanghai from November to December 2019 were selected as study subjects. Based on the principles of informed consent and voluntary participation, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among the employees to collect their demographic characteristics, occupational characteristics, health status, socioeconomic status, health supportive environment of workplace, subjective well-being, etc.

Results A total of 1 357 employees were surveyed. The average score of subjective well-being of the participants was 6.55±1.56. The subjective well-being scores varied among respondents with different education levels, household registration types, per capita average monthly income, occupations, self-rated health status, chronic diseases, self-perceived payment pressure, self-rated social status, and health support working environment (P < 0.05). Those who were married (versus single, OR=1.66, 95% CI:1.16-2.37), who held a Shanghai household registration (versus non-local household registration, OR=1.52, 95% CI:1.08-2.15), who self-rated their health as fair, good, and excellent (versus poor/very poor, OR=3.42, 95% CI:1.48-7.90; OR=7.73, 95% CI:3.28-18.18; OR=24.17, 95% CI:8.00-73.06), who sometimes felt a little difficulty or felt little or almost no difficulty or pressure (versus obvious economic pressure, OR=1.69, 95% CI:1.21-2.37; OR=4.76, 95%CI:3.09-7.33), who self-rated their social status as fair and high (versus low, OR=1.89, 95%CI:1.18-3.03; OR=4.90, 95%CI:3.18-7.57), and who were from health units (versus non-health units, OR=1.43, 95%CI:1.07-1.92) showed a higher subjective well-being level.

Conclusion The subjective well-being of employees from enterprises and public institutions in Minhang District of Shanghai is at a relatively low level. Marital status, household registration, self-rated health status, economic pressure, self-rated social status, and ongoing health unit construction are the factors affecting respondents' subjective well-being.