社会阶级,控制和文化:社会经济地位较低的个人在相对不动的社会中感觉到控制较少
1Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|March 28, 2025
概括
社会文化背景显著影响社会经济地位 (SES) 和感知控制. 低关系性流动性环境加剧了SES控制差异,特别是对于低SES个体.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 跨文化研究跨文化研究.
背景情况:
- 现有的研究表明,更高的社会经济地位 (SES) 和感知控制之间存在正相关性.
- 社会文化背景对这种SES控制关系的影响,特别是在不同的SES背景下,仍然未被充分探索.
研究的目的:
- 研究社会文化背景,特别是关系移动性如何调节SES与感知控制之间的关联.
- 检查SES控制协会在跨国差异中的关系移动性的调解作用.
- 通过实验操纵来确定关系移动性对SES-控制关系的因果关系.
主要方法:
- 跨文化对SES和感知控制在不同程度的关系流动性的国家进行了跨文化比较 (研究1和2).
- 调解分析使用自我报告的关系移动性来解释跨国变化 (研究3).
- 对关系移动性的实验操纵,以确定其对SES控制协会的因果影响 (研究4).
主要成果:
- 在低关系流动性社会中,SES与控制感之间的关联比高关系流动性社会更强.
- 在不动社会中的低SES个体中,感知控制的较低对这种放大SES控制关联作出了重大贡献.
- 关系性流动性被确定为一个重要的调解者和影响SES-控制关系的因果因素.
结论:
- 以低关系移动性为特征的社会环境加剧了高SES和低SES个体之间感知控制的现有差异.
- 这些发现强调了社会生态在塑造心理结果和不成比例地影响低SES个人的关键作用.
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