Social Mobility Beliefs, Sense of Gain, and Charitable Willingness: A Differential Analysis Based on Individual versus Social Mobility Beliefs

Study 1 manipulated social mobility beliefs and preliminarily verified the causal relationship between social mobility beliefs and charitable willingness. Study 2 introduced the concept of sense of gain and clarified its mediating role between social mobility beliefs and charitable willingness. Study 3a and 3b split mobility beliefs into social mobility beliefs based on the social environment and individual mobility beliefs based on one's own situation, and tested through questionnaire measurement and experimental manipulation whether social mobility beliefs can have a greater impact on charitable willingness by enhancing sense of gain compared to individual mobility beliefs.