Lilly Kieren J, Sibley Chris G, Osborne Danny
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Apr;51(4):554-572. doi: 10.1177/01461672231195332. Epub 2023 Sep 5.
Despite being a core psychological construct for over 70 years, research has yet to examine how perceptions of deprivation relative to other individuals and/or groups across adulthood. As such, this preregistered study uses cohort-sequential latent growth modeling to examine changes in individual- and group-based relative deprivation (IRD and GRD, respectively) across the adult lifespan. Across 10 annual assessments of a nationwide random sample of adults ( = 58,878; ethnic minority = 11,927; 62.7% women; ages 21-80), mean levels of IRD trended downward across the lifespan, whereas mean levels of GRD generally from young-to-middle adulthood before declining across late adulthood. Subtle cohort effects emerged for both constructs, although both IRD and GRD largely followed a normative aging process. Critically, the development of GRD-but not IRD-differed between ethnic groups, providing insights into how one's status may shape (dis)advantage over time.
尽管相对剥夺感作为一个核心心理概念已有70多年，但研究尚未考察成年期个体对相对于其他个人和/或群体的剥夺感认知情况。因此，这项预先注册的研究采用队列序列潜在增长模型，来检验成年期基于个体和群体的相对剥夺感（分别为IRD和GRD）的变化。在对全国成年人随机样本进行的10次年度评估中（n = 58,878；少数族裔n = 11,927；62.7%为女性；年龄21 - 80岁），IRD的平均水平在整个成年期呈下降趋势，而GRD的平均水平在成年早期到中年期总体上升，之后在成年晚期下降。两种剥夺感都出现了细微的队列效应，尽管IRD和GRD在很大程度上都遵循了正常的衰老过程。至关重要的是，不同种族群体中GRD（而非IRD）的发展存在差异，这为个人社会地位如何随时间塑造（不利）优势提供了见解。
