School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, 1838 Guangzhou Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China.
Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health, Naval Medical University, 800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai, 200433, China.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Nov 14;12(1):658. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-02084-y.
The associations between authoritarian personality and subjective well-being remains understudied, especially in China. In addition, as Chinese individuals and Chinese organizations generally attach importance to authority, exploring the matching effect of individual authoritarian personality and organizational culture (OC) can provide information for career selection, talent recruitment and university enrollment. The present study aimed to test associations between authoritarian personality traits (right-wing authoritarian, RWA; social dominance orientation, SDO) and subjective well-being (SWB; including positive affect, PA; negative affect, NA; and life satisfaction, LS) at the general and component-specific levels and the possible moderating role of OC (military or nonmilitary universities) on the associations in Chinese culture for the first time.
A total of 6,580 Chinese students from military and nonmilitary universities were surveyed using the Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale, Social Dominance Orientation Scale, Campbell Index of Well-being, Patient Health Questionnaire, and Satisfaction with Life Scale.
A higher score on RWA, but lower on SDO, correlated with greater SWB at both the general level and the component-specific levels. The links of RWA/SDO and positive factors (PA/LS) of SWB as well as latent SWB were moderated by the OC (being in military or nonmilitary universities). Specifically, these correlations were stronger for military than for civilian students. Further, although the moderating roles of OC existed in all three subgroups (sex, age, and socioeconomic status [SES] level), the negative link between OC and latent SWB existed in the male, younger, and high-SES individuals, while this link was not significant in female, older, and low-SES ones.
The present study extends the findings of the moderating roles of organizational culture on the positive RWA-SWB relationship and the negative SDO-SWB relationship in oriental cultural contexts.
威权人格与主观幸福感之间的关系在研究中仍未得到充分探讨，尤其是在中国。此外，由于中国个体和组织普遍重视权威，因此探索个体威权人格特质与组织文化（OC）的匹配效应可以为职业选择、人才招聘和大学招生提供信息。本研究旨在首次在中国文化背景下检验威权人格特质（右翼威权主义，RWA；社会支配倾向，SDO）与主观幸福感（SWB；包括积极情绪，PA；消极情绪，NA；生活满意度，LS）之间的关系，并探讨 OC（军事或非军事大学）对这些关系的可能调节作用。
共对来自军事和非军事大学的 6580 名中国学生进行了右翼威权主义量表、社会支配倾向量表、坎贝尔幸福感指数、患者健康问卷和生活满意度量表的调查。
RWA 得分较高，但 SDO 得分较低，与总体水平和特定成分水平的 SWB 呈正相关。RWA/SDO 与 SWB 的积极因素（PA/LS）以及潜在 SWB 的联系受到 OC（军事或非军事大学）的调节。具体来说，这些相关性在军事学生中比在非军事学生中更强。此外，尽管 OC 的调节作用存在于所有三个亚组（性别、年龄和社会经济地位[SES]水平）中，但 OC 与潜在 SWB 之间的负相关在男性、年轻和高 SES 个体中存在，而在女性、年龄较大和 SES 较低的个体中则不显著。
本研究扩展了组织文化对积极的 RWA-SWB 关系和消极的 SDO-SWB 关系的调节作用在东方文化背景下的发现。
