Jackson Benita, Richman Laura Smart, LaBelle Onawa, Lempereur Madeleine S, Twenge Jean M
Smith College.
Duke University.
Self Identity. 2015 Mar 1;14(2):157-172. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2014.965732.
What makes low social status toxic to well-being? To social status is to believe the self is responsible for it. We hypothesized that the more people internalize low subjective social status, the more their basic psychological needs are thwarted. Experiment 1 randomly assigned participants to imagine themselves in low, middle, or high social status and assessed their subjective social status internalization by independent ratings. The more participants internalized low status, the more they reported their basic psychological needs were thwarted. This effect did not appear among their higher status counterparts. Experiment 2 replicated and extended these findings using a behavioral manipulation of subjective social status and a self-report measure of internalization. We discuss implications for basic and action research.
是什么让低社会地位对幸福感产生有害影响？将社会地位内化意味着相信自我应对此负责。我们假设，人们越是将低主观社会地位内化，其基本心理需求就越会受到阻碍。实验1将参与者随机分配，让他们想象自己处于低、中或高社会地位，并通过独立评分评估他们对主观社会地位的内化程度。参与者对低地位的内化程度越高，他们报告的基本心理需求受到阻碍的程度就越高。这种效应在处于较高地位的参与者中并未出现。实验2使用主观社会地位的行为操纵和内化的自我报告测量方法重复并扩展了这些发现。我们讨论了对基础研究和行动研究的启示。
