Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology
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Vol.38 No.2
Abstract
Seeking status is a fundamental human motive. Therefore, individuals with higher socioeconomic status (SES) generally report greater life satisfaction. A key factor contributing to this phenomenon includes increased accessibility to resources such as education, healthcare, and financial assets. Given that status serves as a means to expand opportunities and influence over essential resources for individual functioning and prosperity, it is presumed that this becomes particularly evident in environments with intense competition for resources. This study posited that the correlation between SES and life satisfaction would be more pronounced in individuals experiencing a heightened competitive environment, where the benefits of a higher status are accentuated. Two separate studies were conducted, confirming this hypothesis. Individuals perceiving their environment as more competitive evaluated their lives more positively when possessing higher SES. This phenomenon was consistent among participants in both South Korea (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2). By demonstrating that the psychological benefits of SES hinge on the perceived competitiveness of one’s environment, this study lends support to prior research on the functions of status.
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People who tend to be preoccupied with their work, or have high work centrality, are more likely to experience burnout and mental health problems. The present study investigated whether maintaining habitual routines could alleviate these adverse effects. Using a sample of workers (N = 254), we found that participants with elevated work centrality experienced increased burnout and diminished subjective well-being. However, those who maintained a high level of routines revealed these negative outcomes less, even with pronounced work centrality. Further mediated moderation analysis confirmed that routines neutralized the rise in burnout associated with work centrality, subsequently prevented the decrease of subjective well-being. Our findings have practical implications, suggesting behavioral approaches to preserve mental well-being for those with marked work centrality.
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The present study examined a moderated mediation model that stipulates an interaction of the two subcomponents of social identity uncertainty (identity-uncertainty and membership-uncertainty) and individuals’ self-construal in predicting ingroup identification (i.e., national identification), which in turn predicts intention to leave the ingroup (i.e., South Korea). We surveyed a total of 121 South Korean undergraduates and found that identity-uncertainty predicts the exit intention via ingroup identification only among individuals with an independent self-construal. By contrast, no significant relationships were found when the model included membership-uncertainty as a predictor. Implications of these findings and directions for future research on social identity uncertainty are discussed.