ABSTRACT

Right-wing people usually justify the system more than left-wing people. The social identity approach suggests that system justification may be an ingroup bias at overarching national levels and that differences between leftists and rightists could be linked to differences in party norms in promoting national identification. A cross-sectional design was used in which 192 adults (64.6% men, mean age of 35.61 years) were enrolled. Political orientation, national identification and general and economic system justification were collected. Results from structural equation modelling indicated that rightists, as compared with leftists, were higher in national identification and both general and economic system justification. National identification mostly mediated the relationship between political orientation and general system justification, while mediation on the relationship between political orientation and economic system justification was less marked. The social identity approach expectation that differences in system justification could be linked to the extent to which people identify with their overarching social category appears to be supported.

摘要

右翼人士通常比左翼人士更能为系统辩护。社会认同方法表明，制度合理性可能是总体国家层面的群体偏见，左派和右派之间的差异可能与促进民族认同的政党规范上的差异有关。使用了一项横断面设计，其中招募了192名成人（男性为64.6％，平均年龄为35.61岁）。收集了政治取向，国家认同以及一般和经济制度的理由。结构方程模型的结果表明，与左翼分子相比，右翼分子在国家认同以及一般和经济体系合理性方面均更高。国家认同主要介导政治取向与一般制度辩护之间的关系，政治调解与经济制度合理性之间关系的调解较少。社会认同方法期望将系统合理性的差异与人们对其总体社会类别的认同程度联系起来似乎受到支持。