公正世界信念与大学生社会责任感的关系:人际信任的解释作用及其性别差异

Relationship between Belief in a Just World and Social Responsibility among Undergraduate Students: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust and the Gender Difference

社会责任感是大学生学业成就和幸福生活等积极心理与行为的有效预测指标,考察社会责任感的影响因素及其作用机制有助于大学生社会责任感的培养与提升。为此,本研究以6所高校852名大学生为被试,考察了公正世界信念与大学生社会责任感之间的关系,以及人际信任对二者关系的中介作用及其性别差异。结果发现:(1)公正世界信念可以显著正向预测大学生的社会责任感;(2)人际信任在公正世界信念与大学生社会责任感之间发挥着部分中介作用,但是主要表现在男大学生群体中,而女大学生中未发现该效应。这说明,公正世界信念可以显著预测大学生社会责任感,并且在男大学生中人际信任是二者关系的中介桥梁。

Social responsibility is a relatively stable quality referring to assuming social responsibility or helping others.For undergraduate students,social responsibility was considered to be the effective indicator of a series of positive psychology and behaviors.In this study,852 college students from 6 universities in China were investigated to examine the mediating effect of interpersonal trust and the moderating role of gender between belief in a just world and social responsibility.The results showed:(1)The belief in a just world was significantly positively related to the sense of social responsibility;(2)The relationship between belief in a just world and social responsibility was mediated by interpersonal trust.However,the mediating effect of interpersonal trust is mainly found among male undergraduate students,but not among female undergraduate students.This meant that the belief in a just world belief could predict male undergraduate students’sense of social responsibility,and interpersonal trust was the intermediary bridge between the relationship.