收入如何影响社会信心?——社会公平感的中介作用

How Does Income Affect Social Confidence?——Base on the Indirect Role of the Sense of Social Equity

利用武汉大学社会调查中心的综合调查数据,借助结构方程模型考察了社会公平感(权利公平感和分配公平感)在个人收入对社会信心影响中的中介效应。结果发现,个人收入对社会信心的直接影响消失;个人收入对权利公平感具有显著的负向影响,反过来,权利公平感对社会信心产生显著正向影响;个人收入不能通过分配公平感对社会信心产生间接显著影响。因此,当前中国民众,特别是高收入群体社会信心的提升,不仅需要物质财富分配公平,更需要政治权利公平。

Based on the general social data surveyed by Center for the Social Survey Research of Wuhan university, this study employed the structural equation model （SEM） to evaluate the mediating effect of the sense of social equity（ sense of fight equity and sense of distributive equity） on the relationship that personal income affects social confidence. The results revealed that the direct effect of personal income on social confidence became vanished; personal income had a significant negative effect on sense of fight equity and in turn, sense of rights equity can significantly predict positive so- cial confidence ; while personal income could not affect social confidence via the mediating effect of the sense of distribu- tive equity. Thus the boost of the social confidence in contemporary China, especially for the high income group, does not only depend on the equitable distribution of material wealth, but also on the rights equity.