Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA.
J Pers. 2011 Aug;79(4):763-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00705.x. Epub 2011 Jun 20.
This research examines the hypothesis that religiosity has two competing psychological influences on the social welfare attitudes of contemporary Americans. On the one hand, religiosity promotes a culturally based conservative identity, which in turn promotes opposition to federal social welfare provision. On the other hand, religiosity promotes a prosocial value orientation, which in turn promotes support of federal social welfare provision. Across two national samples (Ns = 1,513 and 320) and one sample of business employees (N = 710), reliable support for this competing pathways model was obtained. We argue that research testing influences of nonpolitical individual differences on political preferences should consider the possibility of competing influences that are rooted in a combination of personality processes and contextual-discursive surroundings.
本研究检验了一个假设，即宗教信仰对当代美国人的社会福利态度有两种相互竞争的心理影响。一方面，宗教信仰促进了基于文化的保守身份认同，而这种认同反过来又反对联邦社会福利的提供。另一方面，宗教信仰促进了亲社会的价值取向，从而促进了对联邦社会福利的支持。在两个全国性样本（N1=1513，N2=320）和一个商业员工样本（N3=710）中，都得到了这个相互竞争的路径模型的可靠支持。我们认为，检验非政治个体差异对政治偏好影响的研究应该考虑到这种可能性，即相互竞争的影响可能源于个性过程和情境话语环境的结合。
