Yu Liang, Gao Jie, Kong Yan, Huang Long
School of Humanities and Management, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China.
School of Public Fundamentals, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China.
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 22:1-9. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04455-x.
Most people worldwide suffer from resource scarcity in their lives. Perceived scarcity plays an important role in cognitive abilities and decision-making. This study employed the perceived scarcity, self-control, self-efficacy, and delayed gratification scales to explore the relationship among perceived scarcity, self-efficacy, self-control, and delayed gratification as well as the mediating role of self-efficacy and self-control between perceived scarcity and delayed gratification. A cross-sectional survey was conducted via an online survey platform with 1,109 Chinese college students. The results showed that perceived scarcity was negatively correlated with individual self-efficacy, self-control, and delayed gratification, while self-efficacy and self-control played a partial parallel-mediated role between perceived scarcity and delayed gratification. The mediation model accounted for 28% of the variance in delayed gratification. Moreover, the results indicated that perceived scarcity can reduce the delay in gratification through its negative impact on individual self-efficacy and self-control. To some extent, this result explains how perceived scarcity delays gratification from the perspective of motivation and cognition and provides support for further research on the intervention of perceived scarcity's psychological and behavioral consequences.
世界上大多数人在生活中都面临资源稀缺的问题。感知到的稀缺在认知能力和决策中起着重要作用。本研究采用感知稀缺量表、自我控制量表、自我效能感量表和延迟满足量表，探讨感知稀缺、自我效能感、自我控制和延迟满足之间的关系，以及自我效能感和自我控制在感知稀缺与延迟满足之间的中介作用。通过在线调查平台对1109名中国大学生进行了横断面调查。结果表明，感知稀缺与个体自我效能感、自我控制和延迟满足呈负相关，而自我效能感和自我控制在感知稀缺与延迟满足之间起部分平行中介作用。中介模型解释了延迟满足中28%的变异。此外，结果表明，感知稀缺通过对个体自我效能感和自我控制的负面影响来减少延迟满足。这一结果在一定程度上从动机和认知的角度解释了感知稀缺如何延迟满足，并为进一步研究感知稀缺的心理和行为后果的干预提供了支持。
