Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology
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Vol.33 No.2
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether uncertain identity increases materialism, which in turn decreases psychological well-being. Two studies were conducted to test this idea. In Study 1, participants completed self-report measures of identity commitment, psychological well-being, and materialism. It was found that identity certainty as assessed by identity commitment was negatively related to materialism and positively related to psychological well-being, and that materialism mediated the link between identity certainty and psychological well-being. Study 2 was conducted to examine whether uncertain identity causes materialism using an experiment. Identity (un)certainty was manipulated by asking participants to write a story in which they experienced a strong sense of who they were (certainty condition) or a story in which they experienced the lack of identity (uncertainty condition). Right after the writing task, participants competed a measure of state materialism. Participants in the certainty condition showed a lower level of state materialism relative to those in the uncertainty condition, indicating the causal role of identity in materialism. Given the negative relation between materialism and mental health, notoriously high materialism in Korea is a big social problem. The present study’s contribution is to identify identity uncertainty as one of the antecedents of materialism.
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The current study is designed to investigate the importance of factors influence voting decisions and candidate preferences. Previous research suggests that people can infer internal attributes from the candidate's face, and that the inferred attributes can also affect preferences for candidates. The current study attempts to investigate internal attributes affecting candidate preferences, when including evaluator factors such as right-wing authoritarianism. With this aim, 242 participants were asked to infer self-confidence, competence, and trustworthy by looking at the faces of candidates from the local election in 2018. The results showed that the self-confidence, competence, and trustworthiness inferred from the candidate’s face significantly explained the preference for voting. In addition, the right-wing authoritarianism of the participants appeared to make the differences in inference of self-confidence across candidates, which in turn resulted in differences in the voting preference for each candidate. However, the high preference for candidates reported in this study did not predict actual election results. The findings of this study provide basic information about impression evaluation among Koreans and voting behavior in case of lacking information.