People often perceive social systems as fair and legitimate in order to satisfy existential, epistemic, and relational needs. Although much work has examined the existential and epistemic roots to system justification, the relational motives underlying the tendency to justify the system have received comparatively less attention. We addressed this oversight by examining the associations approach and avoidance relational goals have with system justification in a national probability sample (N = 21,938). Consistent with the thesis that the need to belong motivates system justification, avoidance goals (i.e., the desire to avoid social conflict) correlated positively with system justification (approach goals also unexpectedly correlated positively with system justification). Also as hypothesized, system justification mediated the relationship between avoidance goals and belongingness. Moreover, system justification mediated the relationship between avoidance goals and belongingness. Finally, sequential mediation analyses revealed that avoidance goals predicted higher well-being via system justification and belongingness. This study is the first to demonstrate that system justification confers palliative benefits by satisfying two different relational goals.

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检查系统辩护信念的关系基础和后果：解释系统辩护的姑息效应

为了满足存在的、认知的和关系的需要，人们常常认为社会制度是公平和合法的。尽管许多工作已经研究了系统证成的存在主义和认知根源，但为系统辩护的趋势背后的关系动机却相对较少受到关注。我们通过检查关联方法和避免关系目标在国家概率样本（N = 21,938）。与归属需要激发系统正当性的论点一致，回避目标（即避免社会冲突的愿望）与系统正当性正相关（方法目标也出乎意料地与系统正当性正相关）。同样作为假设，系统正当性调节了回避目标和归属感之间的关系。此外，系统正当性调节了回避目标和归属感之间的关系。最后，顺序中介分析表明，回避目标通过系统论证和归属感预测更高的幸福感。本研究首次证明系统论证通过满足两个不同的关系目标来赋予姑息性益处。