Socioeconomic status differences in agentic and communal self-concepts: Insights from 6 million people across 133 nations.

IF 6.4 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of personality and social psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI:10.1037/pspp0000517

Lucia L-A Boileau,Jochen E Gebauer,Wiebke Bleidorn,P Jason Rentfrow,Jeff Potter,Samuel D Gosling

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Do people of different socioeconomic status (SES) differ in how they see themselves on the Big Two self-concept dimensions of agency and communion? Existent research relevant to this theoretically and socially important question has generally been indirect: It has relied on distant proxies for agentic and communal self-concepts, narrow operationalizations of SES, comparatively small samples, and data from few nations/world regions. By contrast, the present research directly examines the associations between SES and agentic and communal self-concepts, relies on well-validated measures of agency and communion, examines three complementary measures of SES, and uses data from 6 million people (years of age: M = 26.12, SD = 11.50) across 133 nations. Overall, people of higher status saw themselves as somewhat more agentic and as slightly less (or negligibly less) communal. Crucially, those associations varied considerably across nations. We sought to explain that variation with 11 national characteristics and found only three of them to be robustly relevant: National religiosity and pathogen load curbed status differences in agentic self-concepts, and income inequality amplified status differences in communal self-concepts. Our discussion develops theory to explain the importance of national religiosity, pathogen load, and income inequality for socioeconomic status differences in agentic and communal self-concepts and it also describes the substantial societal implications of those differences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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代理人和社区自我概念的社会经济地位差异：来自 133 个国家 600 万人的见解。

不同社会经济地位（SES）的人在如何看待自己的 "代理 "和 "共融 "两大自我概念维度上是否存在差异？与这一具有重要理论和社会意义的问题相关的现有研究一般都是间接的：这些研究依赖于代理和共通自我概念的遥远替代物、狭隘的 SES 操作方法、相对较小的样本以及来自少数国家/世界地区的数据。相比之下，本研究直接考察了社会经济地位与代理型和社区型自我概念之间的关系，采用了经过充分验证的代理型和社区型测量方法，考察了三种互补的社会经济地位测量方法，并使用了来自 133 个国家的 600 万人的数据（年龄：M = 26.12，SD = 11.50）。总体而言，地位越高的人认为自己的能动性越高，共融性越低（或低得可以忽略不计）。重要的是，这些关联在不同国家之间存在很大差异。我们试图用 11 个国家的特征来解释这种差异，结果发现其中只有三个国家的特征具有很强的相关性：民族宗教信仰和病原体负荷抑制了代理型自我概念的地位差异，而收入不平等扩大了社区型自我概念的地位差异。我们的讨论提出了一些理论来解释民族宗教信仰、病原体负荷和收入不平等对代理人和社区自我概念的社会经济地位差异的重要性，同时也描述了这些差异的重大社会影响。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)。

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Journal of personality and social psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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12.70

自引率

3.90%

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250

期刊介绍： Journal of personality and social psychology publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology and emphasizes empirical reports, but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers.Journal of personality and social psychology is divided into three independently edited sections. Attitudes and Social Cognition addresses all aspects of psychology (e.g., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that take place in significant micro- and macrolevel social contexts.