With a focus on the immigrant population, this study examines how the association between a relative income position and life satisfaction varies when the comparison group changes. Drawing data from Understanding Society in the UK between 2009 and 2015, this study first shows that after migration, income comparisons with the mainstream and co-ethnic groups in the host country matter more than that with the source-country population for one’s life satisfaction. Furthermore, the relevance of comparison groups to life satisfaction varies across immigrant generations. Income comparison with the source-country population is more relevant to life satisfaction of the 1st generation, whereas 1.5 and 2nd generations consider income comparisons within the host country more relevant. In particular, favourable income comparison with the mainstream group in the host country is the most relevant to life satisfaction of the 2nd-generation, followed by the 1.5-generation, and last by the 1st-generation immigrants.

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移民的相对收入和生活满意度：多代人视角下的比较组

本研究以移民人口为重点，研究了当对照组发生变化时，相对收入地位与生活满意度之间的关联如何变化。本研究利用 2009 年至 2015 年英国了解社会的数据，首先表明，移民后，与东道国主流和同族群的收入比较比与来源国人口的收入比较对一个人的生活满意度更重要。此外，比较群体与生活满意度的相关性因移民世代而异。与来源国人口的收入比较与第一代的生活满意度更相关，而 1.5 和第二代则认为东道国的收入比较更相关。特别是，