Cheng Grand H-L, Chan Darius K-S, Yeung Dannii Y
Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 25;10:900. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00900. eCollection 2019.
Wealth inequality is a prevalent social issue. The present study focuses on acceptance of wealth inequality, and considers personal income, perceived upward mobility, and future time perspective as its antecedents, and collective action intention as its outcome. With reference to the social identity literature and socioemotional selectivity theory, we posit a conditional indirect effect of income on collective action intention through acceptance of wealth inequality: only when mobility and future time perspective are relatively high, higher income is associated with higher acceptance of wealth inequality and in turn, lower collective action intention. Moderated mediation findings, based on territory-wide phone survey data from 866 Hong Kong adults, supported this prediction. This work indicates the relevance of an individual-level instrumental perspective to the understanding of acceptance of wealth inequality as well as collective action intention.
财富不平等是一个普遍存在的社会问题。本研究聚焦于对财富不平等的接受度，并将个人收入、感知到的向上流动性和未来时间观视为其前因，将集体行动意图视为其结果。参照社会认同文献和社会情感选择理论，我们假定收入通过对财富不平等的接受度对集体行动意图产生有条件的间接影响：只有当流动性和未来时间观相对较高时，较高的收入才与对财富不平等的较高接受度相关联，进而与较低的集体行动意图相关联。基于对866名香港成年人的全港电话调查数据的调节中介分析结果支持了这一预测。这项研究表明，个体层面的工具性视角对于理解财富不平等的接受度以及集体行动意图具有重要意义。
