Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors

Caballero , Amparo, Itziar, Fernández Sedano, Aguilar, Pilar, Muñoz, Dolores y Carrera, Pilar . (2021) Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. Current Psychology


Título Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors
Autor(es) Caballero , Amparo
Itziar, Fernández Sedano
Aguilar, Pilar
Muñoz, Dolores
Carrera, Pilar
Materia(s) Psicología
Abstract We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 and 2, and participants reported their real income and completed the BIF scale to measure their construal level in Study 3. Studies 1–3 supported the link between perceived economic scarcity and the concrete construal level. Study 4 demonstrated the mediating role played by the concrete construal level in the influence of economic scarcity on risk behaviors using two opposite priming procedures (scarcity plus abstraction). Study 5, in a real context of economic vulnerability, supported the link between concrete mindset and risk behavioral intentions, while abstraction was associated with fewer risk intentions. Concrete thinking implies focusing on the immediate situation, which might facilitate adaptation to the demanding conditions that characterize scarcity contexts but leaves people without a broad perspective of the future to make safe decisions in situations that involve self-control, such as health-risk behaviors. Because an abstract construal level can be induced, these findings open up challenging ways to improve the conditions in which people in scarcity contexts make some behavioral decisions while we continue working to reduce situations of economic scarcity.
Palabras clave Economic scarcity
Construal level
Concrete mindset
Risk behaviors
Editor(es) Springer
Fecha 2021-10-15
Identificador bibliuned:DptoPSyO-FPSI-Articulos-Ifernandez-0004
http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/view/bibliuned:DptoPSyO-FPSI-Articulos-Ifernandez-0004
DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02382-3
ISSN - identifier 1046-1310; eISSN 1936-4733
Nombre de la revista Current Psychology
Número de Volumen 42
Página inicial 8402–8413
Página final 8402–8413
Publicado en la Revista Current Psychology
Idioma eng
Versión de la publicación publishedVersion
Tipo de recurso Article
Derechos de acceso y licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Tipo de acceso Acceso abierto
Notas adicionales La versión publicada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Current Psychology (2021) 42, p 8402–8413, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02382-3
Notas adicionales The published version of this article, first published in Current Psychology (2021) 42, p 8402–8413, is available online at the publisher's website: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02382-3

 
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