Naslov
Belief in a Just World and Responses to Injustice in Various Domains

Autori
Ćubela Adorić, Vera

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
7th Alps-Adria Conference in Psychology, Abstracts / Manenica, Ilija - Zadar : Odjel za psihologiju Sveučilišta u Zadru, 2005

Skup
7th Alps-Adria Conference in Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 02.06.2005. - 04.06.2005

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Belief in a Just World; Responses to Injustice

Sažetak
In a series of studies with Croatian students and adults, the relationships between various cognitive and emotional responses to self-reported and observed unfair outcomes were examined in different domains (vocational, academic, intimate relationships). The main aim was to assess the predictive contribution of the structural components of justice judgments (i.e. deservingness, personal causation, intention, lack of justification) in explaining the variance of the perceived unfairness and of the intensity of negative emotional response to the outcome in various settings. This paper will focus on the patterns of the results that are obtained for the participants with high and low scores on a Belief in a Just World scale. These groups were expected to show generally similar patterns of the correlations between these variables. They should differ, however, in the absolute level of perceived unfairness (including its constitutive components) and intensity of negative emotions. This expectation is based on the general assumption that the "strong" and "weak" believers in a just world differ in the strength of the justice motive, i.e. the tendency to maintain the illusion of a just world and, consequently, to use the strategies of cognitive restructuring that help to assimilate perceived injustice. One of these strategies is the attribution of the outcome to the "victim" of injustice. Thus, another implication of this basic assumption is that, unlike the "weak" believers in a just world, the "strong" believers will show the tendency to ascribe some responsibility to the "victim" , which should also contribute to the perception of unfairness and consequent emotional response. The results provided some support for these expectations, but also suggested the limitations for the hypothesised role of the "blaming the victim" in BJW's functioning in the assimilation of injustice.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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