Social Class and Social Pain: Target SES Biases Judgments of Pain and Support for White Target Individuals.

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-10 DOI:10.1177/01461672231156025
Brielle N Johnson, Erin Freiburger, Jason C Deska, Jonathan W Kunstman
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Abstract

Social pain, defined as distress caused by negative interpersonal experiences (e.g., ostracism, mistreatment), is detrimental to health. Yet, it is unclear how social class might shape judgments of the social pains of low-socioeconomic status (SES) and high-SES individuals. Five studies tested competing toughness and empathy predictions for SES's effect on social pain judgments. Consistent with an empathy account, in all studies (Ncumulative = 1,046), low-SES White targets were judged more sensitive to social pain than high-SES White targets. Further, empathy mediated these effects, such that participants felt greater empathy and expected more social pain for low-SES targets relative to high-SES targets. Social pain judgments also informed judgments of social support needs, as low-SES targets were presumed to need more coping resources to manage hurtful events than high-SES targets. The current findings provide initial evidence that empathic concern for low-SES White individuals sensitizes social pain judgments and increases expected support needs for lower class White individuals.

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社会阶层和社会痛苦:目标SES对白人目标个体的痛苦和支持的判断存在偏见。
社会痛苦,定义为负面人际经历(如排斥、虐待)引起的痛苦,对健康有害。然而,尚不清楚社会阶层如何影响对低社会经济地位(SES)和高社会经济地位个体的社会痛苦的判断。五项研究测试了社会经济地位对社会痛苦判断的影响的竞争韧性和同理心预测。与移情分析一致,在所有研究中(Ncumulative=1046),低SES白人目标被认为比高SES白人对象对社会疼痛更敏感。此外,同理心介导了这些影响,因此参与者对低社会经济地位目标的同理心更强,并期望相对于高社会经济地位的目标有更多的社会痛苦。社会痛苦判断也为社会支持需求的判断提供了依据,因为低社会经济地位目标被认为比高社会经济地位对象需要更多的应对资源来管理伤害事件。目前的研究结果提供了初步证据,表明对低社会经济地位白人个体的移情关注提高了社会痛苦判断的敏感性,并增加了对低阶层白人个体的预期支持需求。
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期刊介绍: The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is the official journal for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal is an international outlet for original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
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