Abstract

Privilege refers to a psychological feel right to preferential treatment, being exempt stable social responsibility and universal subjective belief or perception, in different areas can be expressed as a sense of academic privilege, the consumer a sense of privilege, the privilege workplace flu. Psychological privilege enables individuals to become narcissistic, induced interpersonal conflict, selfishness and aggression and so on. The main factors affecting the psychological privilege of individual factors contextual factors have life experience, rearing, attachment type, socioeconomic status, and other environmental organizations and self-compassion, subjective construct, egalitarian values, and so on. Future studies should further explore the psychological privileges concept and structure, expand its research methods, longitudinal studies and strengthen indigenous research and to further explore the psychological factors that may affect the privileges of the privileged and psychological ways to avoid negative consequences (or reduced). As an important element of people's social life, a psychological sense of privilege determines the individual's attitude and implementation efficiency towards social rules, corporate requirements, and work. As a result, people with high levels of psychological privilege are more resistant to being bound by rules and more difficult to manage. Individuals with low levels of psychological privilege are more likely to follow orders. At the same time, from the perspective of identity theory resources and self-regulation and another theoretical perspective of workplace, psychological privilege research is summarized and reviewed.

Highlights

  • In recent years, the concept of psychological privilege has been widely concerned by academic circles

  • Based on the review of psychological privilege literature at home and abroad, this paper summarizes the generation mechanism, action mechanism, and representative studies of psychological privilege in the workplace from diverse theoretical perspectives

  • Based on the above argumentation and narration, we propose the following hypotheses for the specific performance of psychological privilege: First of all, more selfish, often unreasonable, difficult to understand and accept the efforts of others, and even to others' help with hostility and slander

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Summary

Introduction

The concept of psychological privilege has been widely concerned by academic circles. College students and young employees compared to the previous psychological privilege level of contemporary college students and young employees significantly increased [1, 2] This means that contemporary adolescents are more likely to have some negative qualities, is more likely to make social adaptation of bad behavior. Some government officials feel that they deserve better in all aspects than the ordinary people of treatment [5] no additional contribution of some employees think they have a right to a bonus [6] This is based on their shared conviction that psychological privilege (psychological entitlement, PE). Psychological privilege will reduce the individual's sense of social responsibility [11], of the partner's loyalty and empathy [12], so that individuals are more likely to make selfish behavior and aggressive behavior [13], to make a selection competition in social dilemmas [14], are more likely to induce interpersonal conflict [15]

The Concept of Psychological Privilege
Psychological Privilege Discrimination
Psychological Privilege Is Under Theoretical Research
Organizational Fairness and Psychological Privilege
Equity Sensitivity Theory and Psychological Privilege
Psychological Privileges from the Perspective of Moral Licensing Theory
Psychological Privilege from the Perspective of Feedback Intervention Theory
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