School of Education Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China.
School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 30;18(19):10308. doi: 10.3390/ijerph181910308.
Previous studies have examined the association between socioeconomic status and prosocial behavior, but the underlying mechanism between them is unclear. The present study aimed to examine the serially mediating roles of community identity and perceived control in this relationship.
Using the convenient sampling technique, a total of 477 Chinese adults from Chinese communities, and ranging in age from 20 to 65 completed the questionnaires for objective socioeconomic status, the MacArthur scale of subjective socioeconomic status, an eight-item community identity scale, the perceived control scale, and a prosocial tendencies measure. Bivariate correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to examine the relationships among the major variables.
Socioeconomic status was positively associated with prosocial behavior. It was also found that community identity and perceived control played mediating roles between socioeconomic status and prosocial behavior, respectively. In addition, community identity and perceived control also had a serially mediating role in the relationship.
Community identity and perceived control played a serially mediating role in the association between socioeconomic status and prosocial behavior. The findings in the present study contribute to understanding the underlying mechanism in the association between socioeconomic status and prosocial behavior among adults, and have important implications for interventions aimed at improving prosocial behavior in lower-status individuals.
先前的研究考察了社会经济地位与亲社会行为之间的关系，但它们之间的潜在机制尚不清楚。本研究旨在检验社区认同和感知控制在这种关系中的连续中介作用。
使用方便抽样技术，共 477 名来自中国社区的中国成年人，年龄在 20 岁至 65 岁之间，完成了客观社会经济地位问卷、麦克阿瑟主观社会经济地位量表、八项社区认同量表、感知控制量表和亲社会倾向量表。采用双变量相关分析和回归分析来检验主要变量之间的关系。
社会经济地位与亲社会行为呈正相关。研究还发现，社区认同和感知控制分别在社会经济地位和亲社会行为之间起着中介作用。此外，社区认同和感知控制在社会经济地位与亲社会行为之间也具有连续的中介作用。
社区认同和感知控制在社会经济地位与亲社会行为之间的关系中起着连续的中介作用。本研究的结果有助于理解成年人中社会经济地位与亲社会行为之间关系的潜在机制，并对旨在改善低社会地位个体亲社会行为的干预措施具有重要意义。
