Institute for Consumer and Social Wellbeing, Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge (Calgary Campus), 345 6 Ave SE, Suite 6032, Calgary, Alberta T2G 4V1, Canada.
DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2022 Mar;223:103460. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103460. Epub 2021 Dec 14.
Amidst the economic, political, and social turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting responses to government mandated and recommended mitigation strategies have posed many challenges for governments as they seek to persuade individuals to adhere to prevention guidelines. Much research has subsequently examined the tendency of individuals to either follow (or not) such guidelines, and yet a 'grey area' also exists wherein many rules are subject to individual interpretation. In a large study of Canadians (N = 1032, M = 34.39, 52% female; collected April 6, 2020), we examine how social dominance orientation (SDO) as an individual difference predicts individual propensity to 'bend the rules' (i.e., engaging in behaviors that push the boundaries of adherence), finding that SDO is significantly and positively associated with greater intentions toward rule-bending behaviors. We further find that highlighting a self-oriented or in-group identity enhances the relationship between SDO and rule-bending, whereas making salient a superordinate-level identity (e.g., Canada) attenuates this effect. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
在 COVID-19 大流行带来的经济、政治和社会动荡中，各国政府在试图说服个人遵守预防准则时，对政府强制和建议的缓解策略的不同反应带来了许多挑战。随后，许多研究都考察了个人遵循（或不遵循）这些准则的倾向，但在许多规则都可以由个人来解释的“灰色地带”也同样存在。在一项对加拿大 1032 人的大型研究中（N=1032，M=34.39，52%为女性；收集于 2020 年 4 月 6 日），我们研究了社会支配倾向（SDO）作为个体差异如何预测个人“打破规则”的倾向（即，从事推高遵守边界的行为），发现 SDO 与更大的规则偏离行为意图显著正相关。我们进一步发现，突出自我或内群体认同增强了 SDO 与规则偏离之间的关系，而突出超群体认同（例如加拿大）则减弱了这种关系。讨论了理论和实践的意义。
