Hou Bo, Liu Qiang, Wang Zhiwei, Hou Jing, Chen Suyun
School of Public Administration and Sociology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China.
Research Center of Food Safety and Agricultural Green Development, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 9;13:1021313. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1021313. eCollection 2022.
Political scientists have conducted extensive research on the factors influencing political participation, but empirical analyses examining them from the perspective of social fairness perceptions are not common.
Using large-scale data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), this study explores the intermediate mechanisms of social fairness perceptions in the influential relationship between social capital and farmers' diversified political participation based on the structural equation modeling (SEM).
The results show that the positive relationship between social capital and farmers' political behavior is indirectly influenced by different dimensions of the sense of social fairness. Among them, social trust and social network variables affect political participation mainly through the mediating role of outcome fairness perceptions, while opportunity fairness perceptions significantly widen the gap in political participation between low and high social trust.
Therefore, the government should nurture the social capital of rural geo-relational networks and formulate policies based on a social justice perspective inorder to enhance rural residents' outcome fairness perceptions and increase the political participation of farmers.
政治科学家对影响政治参与的因素进行了广泛研究，但从社会公平感知角度对其进行的实证分析并不常见。
本研究利用中国综合社会调查（CGSS）的大规模数据，基于结构方程模型（SEM）探讨社会公平感知在社会资本与农民多元化政治参与影响关系中的中介机制。
结果表明，社会资本与农民政治行为之间的正向关系受到社会公平感不同维度的间接影响。其中，社会信任和社会网络变量主要通过结果公平感知的中介作用影响政治参与，而机会公平感知显著扩大了低社会信任和高社会信任群体在政治参与上的差距。
因此，政府应培育农村地缘关系网络的社会资本，并从社会正义视角制定政策，以增强农村居民的结果公平感知，提高农民的政治参与度。
