García-Sánchez Efraín, Castillo Juan Carlos, Rodríguez-Bailón Rosa, Willis Guillermo B
Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC-UGR), Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, Department of Sociology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Front Sociol. 2022 Apr 27;7:773378. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.773378. eCollection 2022.
Support for redistribution is crucial for reducing economic inequality. Despite people's desire for reducing extreme inequalities, they still have mixed opinions regarding how to do so. The aim of the article is to examine the underlying latent dimensions of support for redistribution and test its correlates to perceptions of and attitudes toward inequality. In two studies, we found that support for redistribution can be modeled as a latent construct depicting two different dimensions: one focused on taxing the wealthy and changing the income distribution schema, and other focused on assisting people in need and providing opportunities. We also found that the dimension related to taxing the wealthy (vs. assisting people in need) displayed higher internal reliability and correlated consistently with perceptions and attitudes toward inequality: the higher the support for taxing the wealthy, the higher the perceptions and concerns of inequality, and the lower the inequality-justifying ideologies. This research unveils distinct underlying dimensions of support for redistribution that shed light on different motivations that drive people's redistributive preferences.
对再分配的支持对于减少经济不平等至关重要。尽管人们渴望减少极端不平等，但对于如何做到这一点，他们仍然存在不同意见。本文的目的是研究支持再分配的潜在维度，并测试其与对不平等的认知和态度之间的相关性。在两项研究中，我们发现支持再分配可以被建模为一个潜在结构，描绘两个不同维度：一个侧重于对富人征税并改变收入分配模式，另一个侧重于帮助有需要的人并提供机会。我们还发现，与对富人征税相关的维度（相对于帮助有需要的人）显示出更高的内部可靠性，并且与对不平等的认知和态度始终相关：对富人征税的支持越高，对不平等的认知和担忧就越高，而为不平等辩护的意识形态就越低。这项研究揭示了支持再分配的不同潜在维度，这些维度揭示了驱动人们再分配偏好的不同动机。
