尽管研究通常表明,持有唯物主义信念会导致不良的发展结果,很少有研究将青少年犯罪作为结果衡量标准。此外,物质主义和青少年发展结果之间的干预过程尚不清楚。特别是,尚不清楚唯物主义信仰如何影响自我中心主义和青少年犯罪。方法上,现有的研究有几个弱点,包括小样本,横断面研究设计,仅限于生活在西方文化中的人。利用从四川收集的两波数据,中国(N=4981),我们研究了青少年物质主义对犯罪的预测作用以及自我中心主义的中介作用。两次相隔六个月,11岁及以上的学生回答了一份评估青少年物质主义的问卷,自我中心主义,和犯罪(平均第1波年龄=13.15,范围在11到20.38之间)。多元回归分析的结果表明,时间1的唯物主义积极预测了时间2的自我中心主义。此外,时间1唯物主义积极预测了时间2犯罪的水平和变化。最后,基于5000个带有性别的引导样本,年龄,民族,和时间1不良行为作为协变量,过程分析表明,自我中心主义部分介导了时间1唯物主义犯罪的影响及其在时间2的变化。这项研究表明,唯物主义信仰塑造了自我中心主义,这进一步加强了青少年的犯罪行为。这项研究也复制了先前报道的中国先驱研究的发现。
Although research generally showed that holding materialistic beliefs would lead to poor developmental outcomes, few studies have used adolescent delinquency as an outcome measure. In addition, the intervening processes between materialism and adolescent developmental outcomes are unclear. In particular, it is not clear how materialistic beliefs influence
egocentrism and adolescent delinquency. Methodologically, the existing studies have several weaknesses, including small samples, cross-sectional research designs, and being limited to people living in Western cultures. Using two waves of data collected from Sichuan, China (N = 4981), we studied the predictive effect of adolescent materialism on delinquency and the mediating role of
egocentrism. Over two occasions separated by six months, students aged 11 and above responded to a questionnaire evaluating adolescent materialism,
egocentrism, and delinquency (mean Wave 1 age = 13.15, range between 11 and 20.38). Results of multiple regression analyses suggested that materialism at Time 1 positively predicted Time 2 egocentrism. Additionally, Time 1 materialism positively predicted the level and change in Time 2 delinquency. Finally, based on 5000 bootstrap samples with gender, age, ethnic group, and Time 1 delinquent behavior as covariates, PROCESS analyses showed that
egocentrism partially mediated the influence of Time 1 materialism delinquency and its change at Time 2. This study suggests that materialistic beliefs shape
egocentrism, which further strengthens adolescent delinquent behavior. This study also replicates the findings of a pioneer study in China reported previously.