Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Andres Bello University, Santiago, Chile.
Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2018 Jul;57(3):567-590. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12254. Epub 2018 Mar 25.
According to the palliative function of ideology hypothesis proposed by System Justification Theory, endorsing system-justifying beliefs is positively related to general psychological well-being, because this fulfils existential, epistemic, and relational needs. We discuss and address three main issues: (1) the role of societal inequality, (2) comparisons by social status, and (3) cross-sectional versus longitudinal research. We used a longitudinal survey of representative online samples (N = 5,901) from 18 countries. The results supported the main argument proposed by the theory, in that system justification was positively and significantly related to life satisfaction and negatively related to anxiety and depression. The pattern of results suggested that the palliative function of system justification is more homogeneously distributed across individual and collective measures of social status than proposed by the theory, because the function was unaffected either by society-level inequality or by individual-level social status. These results allow us to infer that one of the reasons for the high stability of social arrangements is located in the psychological domain of palliative effects.
根据系统辩护理论提出的意识形态的缓解功能假设，支持系统正义的信念与一般心理幸福感呈正相关，因为这满足了存在、认知和关系需求。我们讨论并解决了三个主要问题：（1）社会不平等的作用，（2）社会地位的比较，以及（3）横断研究与纵向研究。我们使用了来自 18 个国家的具有代表性的在线样本（N=5901）的纵向调查。结果支持了该理论提出的主要论点，即系统辩护与生活满意度呈正相关，与焦虑和抑郁呈负相关。结果模式表明，系统辩护的缓解功能在个体和集体的社会地位衡量标准上的分布比该理论所提出的更为均匀，因为该功能不受社会层面不平等或个体层面社会地位的影响。这些结果使我们能够推断，社会安排高度稳定性的原因之一位于心理领域的缓解效应中。
