The Effect of Materialism and Future Orientation on the Relationship Between Social Exclusion and Prosocial Behavior

  • CHANG Baorui ,
  • LIN Peitian ,
  • HUANG Jiangxi ,
  • FANG Jiandong
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  • 1. Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004;
    2. Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Applied Psychology, Guilin 541004;
    3. Guangxi Ethnic Education Development Research Center, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Guangxi Universities, Guilin 541004

Received date: 2022-02-28

  Online published: 2022-07-20

Abstract

In this research, two studies were conducted to explore the mechanism and boundary conditions of the effect of social exclusion on prosocial behavior. In study 1, social exclusion was manipulated by using the cyberball paradigm to examine its impact on materialism and pro-social behavior. In study 2, social exclusion was manipulated by using the recall paradigm to examine how future orientation moderates its impact on prosocial behavior. The results of the two studies showed that social exclusion negatively predicted prosocial behavior, materialism played a partial mediating role between social exclusion and prosocial behavior, and future orientation moderated the effect of social exclusion on prosocial behavior. These results revealed that social exclusion increases the level of materialism and thus decreases prosocial behavior, whereas future orientation reduces the negative effects of social exclusion on prosocial behavior.

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CHANG Baorui , LIN Peitian , HUANG Jiangxi , FANG Jiandong . The Effect of Materialism and Future Orientation on the Relationship Between Social Exclusion and Prosocial Behavior[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(4) : 556 -562 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.04.018

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