Supporting the status quo is weakly associated with subjective well-being: A comparison of the palliative function of ideology across social status groups using a meta-analytic approach.

IF 17.3 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY Psychological bulletin Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI:10.1037/bul0000446
Salvador Vargas Salfate, Julia Spielmann, D A Briley
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Research has suggested that the endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo leads to higher subjective psychological well-being-an idea labeled as the palliative function of ideology within system justification theory. Furthermore, this approach has suggested that this association should be moderated by social status. Specifically, the association between the endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo and well-being should be positive among high-status groups and negative among low-status groups-mainly as a function of the existence of a unique motivation to justify the status quo. Given contradictory evidence in previous studies, we conducted a meta-analysis to test these ideas. Across 1,627 studies and 1,856,940 participants, we observed a meta-analytic association between endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo and well-being of r = .07, p < .001. Nonetheless, we did not find evidence supportive of the moderator role of social status. These results provide partial evidence supporting the main tenets of system justification theory, and they are inconsistent with the idea of the existence of a unique motivation to justify the status quo. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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支持现状与主观幸福感关系不大:使用元分析方法比较不同社会地位群体意识形态的缓和功能。
研究表明,支持现状的意识形态会导致更高的主观心理幸福感--这一观点在系统合理性理论中被称为意识形态的缓和功能。此外,这种方法还认为,这种关联应受到社会地位的调节。具体来说,支持现状的意识形态与幸福感之间的关联在地位高的群体中应该是正向的,而在地位低的群体中应该是负向的--这主要是由于存在一种为现状辩护的独特动机。鉴于以往研究中存在相互矛盾的证据,我们进行了一项荟萃分析来验证这些观点。在 1,627 项研究和 1,856,940 名参与者中,我们观察到支持现状的意识形态与幸福感之间的元分析关联为 r = .07,p < .001。尽管如此,我们并没有发现支持社会地位调节作用的证据。这些结果提供了部分证据,支持系统合理化理论的主要原则,但它们与存在为现状辩护的独特动机的观点不一致。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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期刊介绍: Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses of research in scientific psychology. Research syntheses seek to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate investigations that address related or identical hypotheses. A research synthesis typically presents the authors' assessments: -of the state of knowledge concerning the relations of interest; -of critical assessments of the strengths and weaknesses in past research; -of important issues that research has left unresolved, thereby directing future research so it can yield a maximum amount of new information.
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