Family Socioeconomic Status and Profit-seeking Fraud: The Intermediary Role of Materialistic Values

Shengjie Tao; Yiwen Wang; Yan Zeng; Yan Zeng

doi:10.54691/6a29qy89

Authors

Shengjie Tao
Yiwen Wang
Yan Zeng
Yan Zeng

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/6a29qy89

Keywords:

Materialistic Values; Family Socioeconomic Status; Profit-seeking Fraud.

Abstract

To study the relationship between family socioeconomic status, materialistic values and college students being cheated. A large-scale fishing experiment in a university in southern Jiangsu to simulate the fraud situation, screening the cheated group (92) and the undeceived group (800). The Family socioeconomic Status Scale (SES) and materialistic Values Scale (MVS) were used. Results: Significant differences in the family SES and materialistic values between the cheated and undeceived groups, There was a significant positive correlation between family socioeconomic status and materialistic values (P=0.04 <0.05); There was a significant positive correlation between family SES and acquisition of property centered (P=0.001 <0.05); Materialistic values were significantly and positively associated with parents 'educational background and parents' occupation (P=0.023 <0.05, P=0.027 <0.05); There was a significant positive relationship between parental occupation and property acquisition (P=0.011 <0.05, P=0.000 <0.05); In the influence of family socioeconomic status on college students, Materialist values play an intermediary role. Conclusion: College students who pursue money and wealth and low family socioeconomic status are more likely to be cheated, and materialistic values play a bridge role between family socioeconomic status and whether they are cheated.

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