Citizens’ Communal Coping Strategies to Unfairness in Public Administration Domain: the Effects of Gender, Education and Trust in Government
Unfairness in public administration domain could be perceived as stressors. Coping with certain community events, should be considered as communal rather than individual behaviors. Former studies have shown demographic variables, such as gender, education, and trust may have influences on citizen抯 communal coping strategies. We focused on four typical coping strategies out of the dual axis model of coping theory, and examined three hypotheses using data from Social Attitudes Survey of UrbanRural Residents of China, 2010. The results obtained from Ttests and regressions found that: there was no difference in coping strategies between male and female; yet with higher level of education, citizens were much more likely to take prosocial actions (seeking social help and cautious action), whereas citizens with lower education were much more likely to turn into antisocial actions (avoidance and aggressive coping); regarding different coping strategies separately, trust in governments local vs. centralalso had different impact patterns.
Communal Coping Education Level Trustin Government Gender Collective Action
Lin Jingyu Zhou Jie Li Yongjuan
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesGraduate University of Chinese Academy of Scienc Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy Of Sciences Beijing, P.R. China Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy Of SciencesBeijing, P.R. China
国际会议
广州
英文
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2011-05-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）