Author(s)

HaiYing Deng^*, YaoZhi Gao, Sheng Huang

Affiliation(s)

School of Computer Science, Guangdong Agriculture Industry Business Polytechnic, Guangzhou 510507, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

HaiYing Deng

ABSTRACT

Ecological migration constitutes an essential component of China’s ecological civilization construction, aiming to achieve dual goals of ecological restoration and livelihood improvement. Using three counties and seven ecological resettlement communities along the Yellow River in Heze City, Shandong Province as research samples, this study constructs a three-dimensional participation framework of “cognitive–affective–behavioral” engagement. Through reliability and validity tests, correlation analysis, analysis of variance, and multiple regression methods, the study systematically explores the influence mechanism of migrants’ participation on satisfaction with the ecological environment and livelihood well-being. The findings indicate that: (1) Overall, post-relocation migrants report higher satisfaction with the ecological environment than with livelihood well-being, yet exhibit relatively low behavioral participation, revealing a structural pattern of “cognition–affection leading, behavior lagging.” (2) Multidimensional participation significantly enhances both ecological and livelihood satisfaction, among which cognitive participation exerts the strongest direct effect on livelihood well-being satisfaction, while affective and behavioral participation indirectly influence it through improved ecological environment satisfaction. (3) Ecological environment satisfaction plays a partial mediating role in the “participation–well-being” relationship, unveiling the intrinsic coupling mechanism between ecological construction and livelihood improvement. The study concludes that the sustainable development of ecological migration depends not only on material resettlement but also on migrants’ initiative and agency in institutional participation, social identity, and behavioral practice. Strengthening grassroots participatory governance, rebuilding community emotional cohesion, and improving ecological industrial incentive mechanisms are identified as key pathways to achieving synergistic enhancement of ecological protection and livelihood well-being in the Yellow River Basin.

KEYWORDS

Middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River; Ecological migration; Ecological environment; Livelihood well-being; Satisfaction survey

CITE THIS PAPER

HaiYing Deng, YaoZhi Gao, Sheng Huang. The impact of ecological migration on ecological environment and livelihood well-being satisfaction: an empirical analysis based on Heze city, Shandong province. Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities Research. 2025, 3(6): 68-78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/tsshr3186.

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