Sense Of Power Can Relieve Pain:the Mediation Effect Of Sense Of Control

Power has always been a hot spot in the field of management psychology.In recent years,scholars have more and more focus on research of sense of power,testing the effect of power on individual.Sense of power is asymmetry resource-oriented subjective relative capacity perceived through social relation in the social exchange process.The relative ability has a positive effect for many individuals.The sense of power is indispensable in people’s daily life experience and have huge impact on individual’s physical and mental health.In this paper,based on the different individual sense of power,we explored the relationship between the sense of power and pain and its mechanism.In study 1(N=259),based on the data collected from college students by a method of questionnaire,investigates the relationship between power and pain?The result indicated the sense of power was negatively related to pain.In study 2(N=103),based on the data collected from college students by a method of pen and paper experimental,testing for a causal link from sense of power to pain.Participates first recall some station about they experience power,After completing the recall task,they need to finish the manipulation check and evaluate their present pain.The result verified our hypothesis again: power was negatively related pain even after controlled the general self-efficacy and trait power.In Study 3,we recruited 102 students in the experiment.First,we primed their sense of power through Lexical search task,After that,they need to complete pain sensitivity task,testing physical pain of participates.The result indicated the negative relationship between sense of power and physical pain,people who primed low power feel more physical pain even in low pain condition.Verified our result again.In study 4(N=58),we change the thinking.First,we test the trait power of participates,according to their score divided tow groups.People with high trait power will enter into low power prime condition,let them feel losing power.After that,testing present pain of participates.The result indicated the negative relationship between sense of losing power and pain,from the negative side confirmed the feel of losing power is more pain.In study 5,we recruited 61 students in the experiment.First,we primed their sense of power through the same method of study 2,After that,they need to evaluate their sense of control and present pain in this scenario.The result verified our hypothesis again: power was negatively related to pain and sense of control mediated the relationship even after controlled the general self-efficacy and trait power.Finally,in study 6(N=63),participates first recall some station about they experience sense of control,After completing the recall task,they need to finish the manipulation check and evaluate their present pain.The result verified a causal link from sense of control to pain.The study results show that the sense of power can reduce the pain,this is because of the increased sense of power can make people feel more sense of control,reduce the anxiety and stress,so as to reduce the pain.At the same time,the study found that participants who feel lose power will feel more pain,which means that the power has a very large impact on the individual,loss of power will cause serious influence on individual.