Abstract The research focuses on the frame effect and confirms the influence of anti-graft on happiness and its internal mechanism through two experiments. Our research confirms that, compared with anti-corruption framework, the influence of integrity framework on happiness is more positive, and this conclusion is highly stable when we use different experimental manipulation methods (such as field experiment and platform questionnaire), different situational materials (college or workplace), and different subjects (college students or social men). This reminds us that in the process of increasing our efforts to fight corruption, we should not be limited to focusing on the anti-corruption warning records such as hunting, loyalty and betrayal, but also to deploy the standard Party Central Committee to advocate integrity, extend the scope of the construction of a clean culture, and do a good job of advocating integrity. The psychological mechanism behind this influence is that the frame effect helps the trustor who receives the anti-graft information to verify the trustee’s perception of interest representation. In addition, we found that after receiving the anti-graft message, individuals verified the role of symbolic representation through other channels (such as power distance), and their experience of happiness changed. This conclusion reaffirms the critical mediating role of symbolic representation. Meanwhile, the indirect effect of anti-graft on happiness through symbolic representation is moderated by power distance orientation. The role of symbolic representatives mediates the relationships between anti-graft and happiness when the power distance orientation of individuals is much higher.
Compared with existing researches, we put forward several innovative arguments. Firstly, starting from the frame effect, we try to expand the application field of characteristic framework and explore the relationship between policy framework and happiness. Most of the previous researches on framing effect focused on psychology. This paper tries to expand the research field of framing effect and discusses the influence of positive and negative attribute information titers on happiness. Taking the policy framework as the main line and introducing the two-dimensional structure of anti-corruption and advocating integrity, this paper puts forward a new research perspective to explain the heterogeneity of policy preferences under the condition of individual psychological perception. At the same time, in order to adhere to the broad and subtle, the construction of a better chain of happiness causal relationship awakens the concept of interdisciplinary research. Secondly, happiness is the subjective psychological experience that people pursue forever. Literature search shows that happiness research has a long history. However, we are the first to demonstrate the influence of anti-corruption and integrity on happiness and its internal mechanism by means of experimental research from the perspective of subjective psychological experience. Thirdly, this paper innovatively introduces symbolic representation, which is regarded as an internal factor from the perspective of social psychology of policy, and holds that symbolic representation eliminates the doubts of individuals on the representation of interests of bureaucrats and causes positive effects of policy framework. Most of the previous studies focused on the gender and race of symbolic representation, but this paper tries to expand and deepen the research in this field. Finally, in the process of examining the relationship between power distance orientation and symbolic representation, this paper finds that individual power distance orientation and the degree of matching of representative interests of bureaucrats are important reasons that affect the level of individual psychological well-being. This conclusion provides a new explanatory perspective for interpreting the influence mechanism of individual happiness in the context of policy framework.
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Published: 21 March 2024
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