状态无聊对物质主义的影响:意义寻求的中介作用

The Influence of State Boredom on Materialism:The Mediating Role of Search for Meaning

当今社会“物质主义”之风渐盛,作为一种强调拥有物质财富重要性的个体偏好或价值观,对其产生的影响因素和背后机制的探索已成为社会心理学领域关注的重要话题。本研究从状态无聊这一普遍的情绪体验入手,通过三个实验,探究其对物质主义的影响及心理机制。结果发现状态无聊增加物质主义(实验1和实验2),意义寻求起中介作用(实验3)。研究结果为丰富状态无聊研究视角和创新状态无聊操纵范式、以动态视角探讨物质主义成因、重塑对物质主义的认知等提供了实证证据,同时为解释社会现象、提升商品销量、干预极端物质主义提供了思路。

In today’s society,the trend of“materialism”is growing.As individual preferences or values that emphasize the importance of owning material wealth,the exploration of its influencing factors and the underlying mechanism has become an important topic of concern in the field of social psychology.Starting from state boredom a general emotional experience of,this research has examined its influences on materialism and the psychological mechanism through three experiments.The results show that state boredom increases materialism(Experiment 1 and 2),and search for meaning plays a mediating role(Experiment 3).The research results provide empirical evidence for enriching the research perspectives and the manipulation paradigms of state boredom,exploring the causes of materialism from a dynamic perspective,reshaping the understanding of materialism.And at the same time,this research provide,ideas for explaining social phenomena,increasing commodity sales,and intervening in extreme material pursuits.