East Asia Institute, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Mental Health Education Center, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China.
Psych J. 2024 Oct;13(5):749-759. doi: 10.1002/pchj.764. Epub 2024 May 22.
Social mindfulness and Zhongyong thinking style are of high importance when evaluating relevant co-actors in the social world. The current study investigates the influence of social mindfulness and Zhongyong thinking style on cooperative financial decision making in a public goods game among a Canadian sample. We hypothesize that higher perceived social mindfulness and higher perceived Zhongyong thinking style will increase the amount of money contributed to a joint project in a public goods game. The sample was a prolific-based online recruited sample of n = 125 Canadians. We observed a significant main effect of Zhongyong thinking style on the amount of contributed money in the public goods game. Social mindfulness did not reach significance. The influence of Zhongyong thinking style was qualified by a significant Zhongyong by gender interaction, indicating that females but not males reduced their contributions if the Zhongyong thinking style of the co-actor was manipulated as being low. It is shown that Zhongyong thinking style is also relevant in a Western cultural setting. Future research is needed, however, to investigate further the reasons for the differences between females and males.
当评估社会世界中的相关行为者时，社会意识和中庸思维方式非常重要。本研究调查了社会意识和中庸思维方式对加拿大样本公共物品博弈中合作财务决策的影响。我们假设，更高的感知社会意识和更高的感知中庸思维方式将增加公共物品博弈中对联合项目的出资额。该样本是一个基于产量的在线加拿大样本，共有 125 人。我们观察到中庸思维方式对公共物品博弈中出资额有显著的主要影响。社会意识没有达到显著水平。中庸思维方式的影响受到中庸思维方式与性别交互作用的限制，这表明如果行为者的中庸思维方式被操纵为低水平，女性而不是男性会减少她们的贡献。这表明中庸思维方式在西方文化环境中也是相关的。然而，需要进一步的研究来探讨女性和男性之间差异的原因。
