Correlates of Acceptance of Wealth Inequality: A Moderated Mediation Model

Frontiers in Psychology

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Grand H.-L. Cheng¹  Darius K.-S. Chan²  Dannii Y. Yeung³ 

[1] Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore;Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

关键词: wealth inequality;    income;    upward mobility;    future time perspective;    collective action;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00900

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Wealth inequality is a prevalent social issue. The present study focuses on acceptance of wealth inequality, and considers personal income, perceived upward mobility, and future time perspective as its antecedents, and collective action intention as its outcome. With reference to the social identity literature and socioemotional selectivity theory, we posit a conditional indirect effect of income on collective action intention through acceptance of wealth inequality: only when mobility and future time perspective are relatively high, higher income is associated with higher acceptance of wealth inequality and in turn, lower collective action intention. Moderated mediation findings, based on territory-wide phone survey data from 866 Hong Kong adults, supported this prediction. This work indicates the relevance of an individual-level instrumental perspective to the understanding of acceptance of wealth inequality as well as collective action intention.

【 授权许可】

CC BY