The Case for Social Support as Social Assistance: When Social Means to Personal Goal Pursuit Enhance Agency

IF 7.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychological Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1047840X.2022.2038001

G. McMillan, M. Milyavskaya

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Abstract

the Milyavsky et al. (this describe a theoretical model on the compensatory nature between personal agency and social assistance as means to attain goals. They review evidence for the assertions that (1) higher personal agency reduces the motivation to use social assistance during goal pursuit, and (2) increased reliance on social assistance decreases motivation for, and sense of, personal agency. They assert that they have applied a general analysis to a broad range of sources of agency and assistance that enable individual goal pursuit, whether those goals are con-crete or abstract. The agency-assistance model is an ambitious attempt to reconcile several disparate social psychology literatures and form a cohesive explanation for the apparent compensatory nature of personal and social means to goal pursuit. Milyavsky et al. that their model achieves par-simony and they have certainly attempted to explain a large amount of data with few assumptions. However, in doing so, they have failed to account for several theoretical per-spectives with well-established explanatory power.

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社会支持作为社会援助的案例:当社会手段对个人目标追求增强能动性时

Milyavsky等人（这描述了一个关于个人能动性和社会援助作为实现目标手段之间的补偿性质的理论模型。他们审查了以下断言的证据：（1）更高的个人能动性降低了在追求目标期间使用社会援助的动机，（2）对社会援助的依赖增加了，个人代理。他们声称，他们对各种机构和援助来源进行了一般性分析，使个人能够追求目标，无论这些目标是具体的还是抽象的。代理援助模型是一种雄心勃勃的尝试，旨在调和几种不同的社会心理学文献，并对个人和社会手段对目标追求的明显补偿性质形成一种连贯的解释。Milyavsky等人认为，他们的模型达到了标准，他们当然试图用很少的假设来解释大量数据。然而，在这样做的过程中，他们未能解释几个具有公认解释力的理论观点。

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Psychological Inquiry PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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