参照对象信息对分配公平感的影响:攀比效应与虚荣效应

How to Make Justice Judgment of Multiple Referents:Bandwagon Effect and Snob Effect

基于社会比较理论,将影响分配公平感的参照对象信息分为三类:参照对象平均水平信息,与特定参照对象相比的不利信息、有利信息。采用4×2×2模拟情境实验分析了三类参照对象信息对分配公平感的影响,结果发现:参照对象平均水平信息对分配公平感影响力最大;分配公平判断中存在攀比效应,当与特定参照对象相比的不利信息呈现时,分配公平感显著降低;分配公平判断中存在虚荣效应,且在参照对象平均水平信息缺失时效应最强。

Based on social comparison theory,the information of referents can be divided into three categories:information of average(IA);information of better paid referent(IB);information of worse paid referent(IW).In this study,three hundred and twenty eight college students participated in the scenario experiment,and a 4×2×2randomized design was adopted.The results indicated that:(a)the main effect of IA was significant:the perception of distributive justice was lowest when participants were informed that they were paid less than average,and the perception of distributive justice was highest when participants knew that they got more than average;(b)the bandwagon effect was significant in all conditions of IA:when participants got IB,their perception of distributive justice decreased sharply;(c)the strongest snob effect appeared when IA was absent:when participants got IW,their perception of distributive justice increased dramatically.Finally,the theoretical and empirical implications of this study are discussed.