Understanding tactical responses to social problems through the lens of regulatory scope
Understanding tactical responses to social problems through the lens of regulatory scope
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10.1038/s44159-023-00184-x
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2023-05
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Riana M. Brown;M. A. Craig
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作者：
Riana M. Brown;M. A. Craig
人们可以通过集体行动来解决社会问题，旨在改变基本的结构系统，或者通过亲社会行为来帮助受影响的人。在这一视角中，我们借鉴了整合水平理论和监管范围理论来理解人们如何选择减轻社会问题。具体来说，我们建议人们在关注较低层次或心理上更接近的特征时，寻求减轻受问题影响者痛苦的解决方案（关注后果的解决方案），而在关注较高层次或心理上更遥远的特征时，寻求解决问题根本原因的解决方案（关注原因的解决方案）。因此，人们对不同解决方案的偏好可以通过理解人们如何看待潜在问题来解释。该框架解释了人们寻求解决感知到的社会问题的不同方式，提供了人们何时以及为何将时间和精力投入到追求不同形式的社会行动的见解。
People may address societal problems either by engaging in collective action, aiming to change underlying structural systems, or by engaging in prosocial behaviours, aiming to help those affected. In this Perspective, we draw on construal level theory and regulatory scope theory to understand how people might choose to mitigate social problems. Specifically, we propose that people pursue solutions that alleviate the suffering of those affected by the problem (consequence-focused solutions) when they focus on lower-level or more psychologically proximal features and that they pursue solutions that address the underlying causes of the problem (cause-focused solutions) when they focus on higher-level or more psychologically distant features. Thus, people’s preferences for different solutions might be explained by understanding how people view the underlying problem. This framework explains the different ways people seek to address perceived social problems, providing insights into when and why people devote their time and energy to pursuing different forms of social action.