Naslov
Belief in a just world, life satisfaction and depression in adults

Autori
Jurkin, Marina ; Ćubela Adorić, Vera

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

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts / 4th European Conference of Positive Psychology / Brdar, Ingrid - Rijeka : Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, 2008, 289-289

ISBN
978-953-6104-66-6

Skup
4th European Conference on Positive Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 01.07.2008. - 04.07.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
belief in a just world; life satisfaction; depression; adults

Sažetak
Belief in a just world (BJW) reflects a schema of an ordered and meaningful world, which should contribute to the individual’ s sense of security, control, and invulnerability and, thus, allow effective daily functioning. This basic assumption is supported by several sets of empirical findings, including positive relationships between belief in the justness of the world and various dimensions of well-being and adjustment, such as optimism, trust in people, and sense of coherence. This study aimed at providing further empirical evidence of the adaptive functioning of this belief by exploring its relationship with life satisfaction and depression. The study was conducted in an age heterogeneous group of Croatian adults who completed measures of the beliefs in a personal and general just world as well as of the life satisfaction and depression. As predicted, both just-world beliefs were found to correlate positively with the life satisfaction and negatively with depression. However, the relationships were more pronounced for the personal than the general BJW. Moreover, the personal BJW was found to explain the general BJW’ s relationships with life satisfaction and depression. The overall pattern provides further support for the notion that the belief in a personal just world is particularly important for subjective well-being and mental health.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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