“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader,Psychological Science

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“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader
Psychological Science ( IF 4.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-09-30 , DOI: 10.1177/0956797619875472
Stefanie Sprong ₁ , Jolanda Jetten ₂ , Zhechen Wang _{2,

3} , Kim Peters ₄ , Frank Mols ₅ , Maykel Verkuyten ₆ , Brock Bastian ₇ , Amarina Ariyanto ₈ , Frédérique Autin ₉ , Nadia Ayub ₁₀ , Constantina Badea ₁₁ , Tomasz Besta ₁₂ , Fabrizio Butera ₁₃ , Rui Costa-Lopes ₁₄ , Lijuan Cui ₁₅ , Carole Fantini ₁₆ , Gillian Finchilescu ₁₇ , Lowell Gaertner ₁₈ , Mario Gollwitzer ₁₉ , Ángel Gómez ₂₀ , Roberto González ₂₁ , Ying-Yi Hong ₂₂ , Dorthe Høj Jensen ₂₃ , Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ₂₄ , Minoru Karasawa ₂₅ , Thomas Kessler ₂₆ , Olivier Klein ₂₇ , Marcus Lima ₂₈ , Laura Mégevand ₂₉ , Thomas Morton ₃₀ , Paola Paladino ₃₁ , Tibor Polya ₃₂ , Tuuli Anna Renvik _{33,

34} , Aleksejs Ruza ₃₅ , Wan Shahrazad ₃₆ , Sushama Shama ₃₇ , Heather J Smith ₃₈ , Ana Raquel Torres ₃₉ , Anne Marthe van der Bles ₄₀ , Michael J A Wohl ₄₁

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin.
School of Psychology, University of Queensland.
School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Hangzhou Medical College.
Department of Psychology, University of Exeter.
School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.
Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University.
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia.
Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Business Psychology Department, Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan.
Psychology Department, Université Paris Nanterre.
Institute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk.
Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne.
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University.
Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Psychology Department, University of the Witwatersrand.
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Department of Marketing, Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University.
Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki.
Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences, Nagoya University.
Department of Psychology, University of Jena.
Faculty of Psychological Sciences and Education, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Psychology Department, Federal University of Sergipe.
School of Social Sciences, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon.
Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento.
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki.
Open University, University of Helsinki.
Social Psychology Department, Daugavpils University.
School of Psychology and Human Development, National University of Malaysia.
Department of Education, Kurukshetra University.
Department of Psychology, Sonoma State University.
Department of Psychology, Federal University of Paraíba.
Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen.
Department of Psychology, Carleton University.

Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6,112), a study involving an Australian community sample (Study 2, N = 515), and two experiments (Study 3a, N = 96; Study 3b, N = 296). We found correlational (Studies 1 and 2) and experimental (Studies 3a and 3b) evidence for our prediction that higher inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader. We also found that this relationship is mediated by perceptions of anomie, except in the case of objective inequality in Study 1. This suggests that societal inequality enhances the perception that society is breaking down (anomie) and that a strong leader is needed to restore order (even when that leader is willing to challenge democratic values).

中文翻译：

“我们的国家现在需要一个强大的领导者”：经济不平等增强了对强大领导者的渴望

已经发现社会不平等会损害其成员的身心健康并破坏整体社会凝聚力。在这里，我们在一项涉及五大洲 28 个国家的研究（研究 1，N = 6,112）中检验了经济不平等与希望成为强有力的领导者相关的假设，该研究涉及澳大利亚社区样本（研究 2，N = 515 ）和两个实验（研究 3a，N = 96；研究 3b，N = 296）。我们发现相关（研究 1 和 2）和实验（研究 3a 和 3b）证据支持我们的预测，即更高的不平等会增强对强大领导者的希望。我们还发现，除了研究 1 中客观不平等的情况外，这种关系是由对失范的感知调节的。

更新日期：2019-09-30

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