Jagiellonian University, Institute of Psychology, Kraków, Poland.
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Brno, Czech Republic.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2024 Dec;50(12):1690-1710. doi: 10.1177/01461672231176337. Epub 2023 Jun 18.
When people consider what is good for their country, they might face a conflict between the country's short-term and long-term interests. We suggest that resolving this conflict depends on people's form of national identification and future time perspective. Across four studies ( = 4,274), we showed that constructive patriotism, but not conventional patriotism or glorification, was positively associated with future time perspective. Moreover, we showed that this further translated into people's responses to intertemporal conflicts. Specifically, constructive patriotism was indirectly linked to higher support for national policies with long-term advantages (despite short-term disadvantages) and lower support for national policies with long-term disadvantages (despite short-term advantages), and these links were mediated by future time perspective. Overall, our results demonstrate that distinct forms of national identification are differently linked to future time perspective. Likewise, this helps explain differences in how much people care about their country's present and future.
当人们考虑什么对他们的国家有利时，他们可能会在国家的短期和长期利益之间面临冲突。我们认为，解决这一冲突取决于人们的民族认同形式和未来时间观念。在四项研究中（= 4274），我们发现建设性爱国主义与未来时间观念呈正相关，而传统爱国主义或美化爱国主义则不然。此外，我们还发现，这进一步转化为人们对跨时间冲突的反应。具体来说，建设性爱国主义与对具有长期优势（尽管短期劣势）的国家政策的更高支持和对具有长期劣势（尽管短期优势）的国家政策的更低支持之间存在间接联系，而这种联系是由未来时间观念来介导的。总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，不同形式的民族认同与未来时间观念有不同的联系。同样，这有助于解释人们对国家现在和未来的关注程度的差异。
