Social worldviews and social attitudes: Examining the psychological correlates for other-concern

Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, E. Idemudia
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Social inequality or inequity is existent in every society. As such, most societies dedicate efforts to ensuring fairness and justice for all its members. The university environment constitutes a miniature society on its own and everyday broader realities of the larger society are equally applicable within the university.  The attitude that students hold with regards to social inequality could be a function of their worldviews which act as guiding principles for social conduct. In this study, the worldviews of self-transcendence and just-world beliefs were examined in relation to support for affirmative action and social dominance orientation among students. The study employed a survey approach with data collected through questionnaires from a sample of 331 (62.8% female) undergraduate students in a public university. The authors hypothesized that self-transcendence and just-world beliefs would be positively associated with support for affirmative action and negatively with social dominance orientation. Result of data analysis using structural equation modelling confirmed the hypotheses in this study. However, the relationship between just-world beliefs and social dominance orientation was not significant. Results were discussed for their implications for acceptance of social policies that try to bridge the gap between dominant and marginalised groups. The implication of findings for understanding and managing interaction between groups in an educational setting were emphasised. Recommendations were made regarding how policy makers can use knowledge of worldviews held by student in designing strategies geared towards acceptance of policies targeted at ensuring positive outcomes for members of disadvantaged groups. Suggestions for future research were given.
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社会世界观与社会态度:检视他人关怀的心理关联
社会不平等或不公平存在于每个社会。因此,大多数社会致力于确保其所有成员的公平和正义。大学环境本身构成了一个微型社会,而更大社会的日常更广泛的现实也同样适用于大学。学生对社会不平等的态度可能是他们世界观的一个功能,而世界观是社会行为的指导原则。本研究考察了学生的自我超越世界观和公正世界信念与支持平权行动和社会支配倾向的关系。本研究采用问卷调查法,对某公立大学331名本科生(其中女生占62.8%)进行问卷调查。作者假设自我超越和公正世界信念与平权行动支持呈正相关,与社会支配倾向负相关。结构方程模型的数据分析结果证实了本研究的假设。而公正世界信念与社会支配倾向的关系不显著。讨论了这些结果对接受试图弥合主导群体和边缘群体之间差距的社会政策的影响。强调了研究结果对理解和管理教育环境中群体之间互动的意义。就政策制定者如何利用学生持有的世界观知识来设计战略,以便接受旨在确保弱势群体成员取得积极成果的政策,提出了建议。并对今后的研究提出了建议。
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