Relative Deprivation Leads to the Endorsement of “Anti-Chicken Soup” in China

Xiaomeng Zhang, Tianxin Wang, Zhenzhen Liu, Xiaomin Sun () and Shuting Yang
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Xiaomeng Zhang: Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Tianxin Wang: School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK
Zhenzhen Liu: Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Xiaomin Sun: Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Shuting Yang: Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-11

Abstract: “Anti-chicken soup” (ACS) persuades people to yield to reality and give up rather than encouraging people to work hard as “chicken soup” does. The current study explored whether people with a higher level of relative deprivation (RD) would be more likely to endorse ACS. We found that people with high-measured (Study 1) and manipulated (Study 2) RD were more likely to endorse ACS. Study 2 also suggested that the effect was mediated by self-handicapping. It seems that relatively deprived individuals may adopt the strategy of self-handicapping so that they could attribute their failure to external causes, which in turn leads to lower motivation to try their best and ultimately the endorsement of ACS.

Keywords: endorsement of anti-chicken soup; relative deprivation; income inequality; self-handicapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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