Economic insecurity refers to a state of uncertainty about one's financial situation. It could exert negative influence on one's psychological well-being, such as threatening self-esteem. Previous studies have documented that people are likely to protect themselves from psychological threat by evaluating themselves in flattering ways, such as manifesting the self-serving bias. That is, people tend to endorse positive and isolate negative interpersonal events from themselves in attribution. In the present research, two studies were conducted to explore the difference of the self-serving bias between people with high and low economic insecurity. In study 1, economic insecurity was operationalized indirectly by the number of job offer that college senior students have got in the graduate season. In study 2, one's sense of economic insecurity was measured directly through using the self-report scale. Results showed that participants with high economic insecurity manifested greater self-serving bias than that of participants with low economic insecurity (study 1 and 2). It suggests that the self-serving bias might be a self-protection strategy to cope with the psychological threats associated with economic insecurity.

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经济不安全感较高的人表现出更大的自私偏见

经济不安全是指一个人的财务状况不确定的状态。它可能对一个人的心理健康产生负面影响，例如威胁自尊。先前的研究表明，人们可能会通过以讨人喜欢的方式评估自己来保护自己免受心理威胁，例如表现出自私的偏见。也就是说，人们倾向于认可积极的人际交往事件，并在归因中将消极的人际事件与自己隔离开来。在本研究中，进行了两项研究来探讨经济不安全感高和低的人之间的自我服务偏见的差异。在研究 1 中，经济不安全感被大学高年级学生在毕业季获得的工作机会的数量间接操作化了。在研究 2 中，一个' 经济不安全感是通过使用自我报告量表直接测量的。结果表明，与经济不安全程度低的参与者相比，经济不安全程度高的参与者表现出更大的自私偏见（研究 1 和 2）。它表明，自利偏见可能是一种自我保护策略，以应对与经济不安全相关的心理威胁。