Jedinger Alexander, Kaminski Simone
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany.
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 31:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04483-7.
Although the legitimacy of an economic system is often dependent on citizen support, psychological research has paid little attention to attitudes toward economic systems. In the present study, we examined the link between two system-justifying ideologies, namely, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), and attitudes toward the social market economy in Germany. Drawing on system justification theory, we hypothesized that RWA would be positively and SDO negatively associated with support for the social market economy because the social component of the German economic system conflicts with beliefs inherent in SDO favoring a group-based hierarchy. Based on a quota sample of German adults ( = 886), we found support for the predicted associations of both system-justifying ideologies with economic system support, except that RWA was negatively associated with support for the welfare component of the social market economy. However, the positive relationship of RWA with support for the social market economy only emerged after SDO was statistically controlled, suggesting a suppressor situation. These findings demonstrate that system-justifying ideologies bear different relations to pro-market attitudes depending on the type of economic regime. Implications for system justification theory are discussed.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-023-04483-7.
尽管经济体系的合法性通常依赖于公民的支持，但心理学研究对人们对经济体系的态度关注甚少。在本研究中，我们考察了两种维护体系的意识形态，即右翼威权主义（RWA）和社会支配取向（SDO），与德国人对社会市场经济态度之间的联系。基于体系正当性理论，我们假设RWA会与对社会市场经济的支持呈正相关，而SDO与之呈负相关，因为德国经济体系的社会成分与SDO中支持基于群体的等级制度的固有信念相冲突。基于对德国成年人的配额样本（n = 886），我们发现两种维护体系的意识形态与经济体系支持之间的预测关联得到了支持，但RWA与对社会市场经济福利成分的支持呈负相关。然而，RWA与对社会市场经济支持的正相关关系仅在对SDO进行统计控制后才出现，这表明存在抑制效应。这些发现表明，维护体系的意识形态与亲市场态度的关系因经济体制类型而异。我们讨论了对体系正当性理论的启示。
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