Lay people expect social modernization will bring more societal well-being: the relation between expected societal development, communion, agency and subjective well-being.

Autor: Olechowski M; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. molechowski@psych.pan.pl., Krys K; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC psychology [BMC Psychol] 2024 Dec 05; Vol. 12 (1), pp. 729. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 05.
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-024-02142-5
Abstrakt: Background: Previous studies showed that lay people see modernization as a threat to social fabric because it will make people less warm and moral. The purpose of this paper is to describe lay people's understanding of the effects of different types of modernization. Specifically, we checked how social, economic, technological and conventional development are expected to influence communion, agency and well-being in the future society.
Methods: We conducted three cross-sectional studies using online surveys. Prolific participant pool users over 18 years of age that held Canadian citizenship and resided in Canada were eligible to take part in the study in exchange for financial compensation. T-tests and linear regression analyses were conducted using SPSS statistical package.
Results: Participants expected that people in future society will have lower well-being than today. Technological modernization was expected to decrease communion and well-being but increase agency in the future, while social modernization was expected to strengthen societal communion, agency and well-being.
Conclusion: Lay people believe that different types of modernization will have different effects on society. Whereas technological progress is viewed ambivalently, social development is seen as uniformly positive for well-being of society. In order to counter pessimism about the future, policy makers should focus on social development while striving to mitigate negative social aspects of technological advancements.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Research for this publication has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and have been approved by the ethics committee of Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Research for this publication involved adult human participants and their informed consent to participate has been obtained before the study. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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