University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Psicothema. 2021 Feb;33(1):7-15. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2020.351.
Even though the terms "action" and "inaction" have been used to describe objects of attitudes, behaviors, and goals, the meaning of action and inaction for lay people has not been investigated.
In Study 1, participants were asked to spontaneously generate words and behaviors associated with action or inaction. In Studies 2 and 3, participants were presented with behaviors and asked to report whether each behavior involved agency, effort, and change.
Natural language processing of the responses from Study 1 revealed lay conceptualizations included topics related to occurrence, agency, effort, and change. In Studies 2 and 3, simple regressions showed agency, effort, and change correlated with judgments of action and inaction. However, once these predictors were simultaneously entered into a multiple regression, effort captured most of the variance.
These findings suggest that, even though agency and change are important to the definition of action and inaction, effort is paramount.
尽管“行动”和“不作为”这两个术语已被用于描述态度、行为和目标的对象，但尚未对其在非专业人士中的含义进行研究。
在研究 1 中，要求参与者自发地生成与行动或不作为相关的词语和行为。在研究 2 和 3 中，向参与者呈现行为，并要求他们报告每个行为是否涉及能动性、努力和变化。
对研究 1 中响应的自然语言处理揭示了非专业人士的概念化包括与发生、能动性、努力和变化相关的主题。在研究 2 和 3 中，简单回归表明能动性、努力和变化与对行动和不作为的判断相关。然而，一旦这些预测因子同时被输入到多元回归中，努力就占据了大部分的方差。
这些发现表明，即使能动性和变化对行动和不作为的定义很重要，但努力是至关重要的。
