1 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2 University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2019 Jul;45(7):1113-1128. doi: 10.1177/0146167218808501. Epub 2018 Nov 28.
We propose that people high in entitlement are characterized by motivation to attain status. Five studies (total N = 2,372) support that entitlement promotes motivation to seek status. This motivation, in turn, relates to affective processes when facing upward comparisons and contributes to status attainment. Specifically, entitlement fostered prestige and dominance motivation. These, in turn, predicted greater benign and malicious envy, respectively, when encountering high-status others. The indirect effects occurred when entitlement was measured (Studies 1A and 1B) and manipulated (Studies 2A and 2B). Finally, entitlement related to status attainment, yet not always in line with more entitled people's motivation. Although they ascribed themselves both more prestige and dominance, others ascribed them only more dominance, yet less prestige (Studies 3A, 3B, and 3C). These findings suggest that a status-seeking account offers important insights into the complexities of entitled behavior and its social consequences.
我们提出，权利感高的人以获得地位为动机。五项研究（共 2372 人）支持权利感促进了寻求地位的动机。这种动机反过来又与面对向上比较时的情感过程有关，并有助于获得地位。具体来说，权利感培养了威望和支配动机。反过来，当遇到地位高的人时，这些动机分别预测出更大的良性和恶意嫉妒。当权利感被衡量（研究 1A 和 1B）和操纵（研究 2A 和 2B）时，就会出现间接影响。最后，权利感与地位的获得有关，但并不总是与更有权利感的人的动机一致。尽管他们认为自己既有更多的威望，也有更多的支配地位，但其他人只认为他们更有支配地位，而威望较低（研究 3A、3B 和 3C）。这些发现表明，一种追求地位的解释为权利感行为的复杂性及其社会后果提供了重要的见解。
