Dierckx Kim, Van Hiel Alain, Valcke Barbara, van den Bos Kees
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.
School of Law, Faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 4;14:1025153. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1025153. eCollection 2023.
Recent research describes how procedural fairness can be used to resolve issues related to ethnic-cultural matters. The central finding in this strand of literature is that when minority members experience procedurally fair treatment by societal actors regarding ethnic-cultural issues, this will lead to a range of outcomes that are beneficial for social cohesion. Although these results are promising, it remains yet to be shown that such group-specific treatment fairness does not hamper social cohesion by inciting misapprehension among members of non-recipient groups. Therefore, the present study set out to examine two central questions. First, how would group members respond to treatment fairness of citizens belonging to another minority group? Second, how would group members respond to treatment fairness of citizens belonging to minority groups? Two experimental studies (total = 908) examined these questions. In Study 1, we compared ethnic-cultural minorities' reactions to procedurally (un)fair treatment of their own versus a different minority group. In Study 2, we compared minority and majority group members' responses to procedurally (un)fair treatment of minority group members. Results show that minority group member reactions to ethnic-cultural procedural fairness emanate from a shared bond with the fairness recipient(s) of the other minority group. Conversely, majority group members' reactions are driven primarily by a perceived moral obligation to act rightfully toward members of disadvantaged groups. Taken together, our results suggest that ethnic-cultural procedural fairness enactment fosters societal unity among different groups, possibly strengthening social cohesion for well-being and prosperity among members of these groups.
近期研究描述了程序公平如何能够用于解决与种族文化事务相关的问题。这一系列文献中的核心发现是，当少数群体成员在种族文化问题上受到社会行为主体的程序公平对待时，这将带来一系列有利于社会凝聚力的结果。尽管这些结果很有前景，但仍有待证明这种针对特定群体的待遇公平不会因引发非受惠群体成员的误解而妨碍社会凝聚力。因此，本研究着手考察两个核心问题。第一，群体成员对属于另一个少数群体的公民的待遇公平会作何反应？第二，群体成员对属于少数群体的公民的待遇公平会作何反应？两项实验研究（总计 = 908）考察了这些问题。在研究1中，我们比较了种族文化少数群体对自身以及另一个不同少数群体在程序上（不）公平待遇的反应。在研究2中，我们比较了少数群体和多数群体成员对少数群体成员在程序上（不）公平待遇的反应。结果表明，少数群体成员对种族文化程序公平的反应源自与另一个少数群体的公平受惠者之间的共同纽带。相反，多数群体成员的反应主要是由一种认为对弱势群体成员采取正当行动的道德义务所驱动。综合来看，我们的结果表明，种族文化程序公平的实施促进了不同群体之间的社会团结，可能会增强这些群体成员之间实现幸福和繁荣的社会凝聚力。
