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The Justice Motive in
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Contents

List of figures x
List of tables xi
Notes on contributors xiv

1 Introduction 1
HEDVIG SALLAY AND CLAUDIA DALBERT

PART 1
The development of the belief in a just world 9

2 Parenting and young adolescents’ belief in a just

world 11
CLAUDIA DALBERT AND MATTHIAS RADANT

3 The development of the belief in a just world:

the impact of being raised in a one-parent or an
intact family 26
HEDVIG SALLAY AND CLAUDIA DALBERT

4 Transmission of the belief in a just world in the

family 43
UTE SCHÖNPFLUG AND LUDWIG BILZ

5 Transformation of the justice motive? Belief in a

just world and its correlates in different age groups 64
JÜRGEN MAES AND MANFRED SCHMITT
viii Contents
PART 2
The belief in a just world as a resource for mental health
and coping in adolescence 83

6 Belief in a just world, subjective well-being and trust

of young adults 85
ISABEL CORREIA AND JORGE VALA

7 Belief in a just world, personality and well-being of

adolescents 101
CLAUDIA DALBERT AND JOZEF DZUKA

8 The implications and functions of just and unjust

experiences in school 117
CLAUDIA DALBERT

9 Two facets of the belief in a just world and

achievement behaviour at school 135
JÜRGEN MAES AND ELISABETH KALS

10 Belief in a just world as a resource for different

types of young prisoners 153
KATHLEEN OTTO AND CLAUDIA DALBERT

PART 3
Belief in a just world and career development 173

11 Belief in a just world as a resource for unemployed

young adults 175
CLAUDIA DALBERT

12 Belief in a just world and young adults’ ways of

coping with unemployment and the job search 189
VERA CUBELA ADORIC

13 Entering the job market: belief in a just world,

fairness and well-being of graduating students 215
HEDVIG SALLAY
 Contents ix
14 Belief in a just world and adolescents’ vocational and
social goals 231
DOROTHEA DETTE, JOACHIM STÖBER AND
CLAUDIA DALBERT

15 Developmental trajectories and developmental

functions of the belief in a just world: some
concluding remarks 248
CLAUDIA DALBERT AND HEDVIG SALLAY

Index 263
Figures

2.1 Latent path model for parenting, beliefs in a just world,

and just family climate as perceived retrospectively by
young adults 16
2.2 Latent path model for personal belief in a just world
and just family climate as perceived by young adolescents
and parenting as perceived by their mothers and
fathers 21
4.1 Female and male students’ own and their parents’ belief
in a just world 52
4.2 Belief in a just world of father, mother and child as
dependent on child’s age 53
5.1 Justice beliefs in four different age groups 68
10.1 Change in the perceived justice of the trial as a function
of personal belief in a just world and detention 161
10.2 Change in moral justification as a function of personal
belief in a just world and time in prison 162
10.3 Change in feelings of guilt as a function of personal
belief in a just world and age at first conviction 163
10.4 Change in anger-control as a function of personal belief
in a just world and the number of offences in the criminal
career 165
10.5 Change in anger-out as a function of personal belief in a
just world and violent crimes 166
10.6 Change in prospects of success in personal goals as a
function of personal belief in a just world and the number
of offences in the criminal career 167
12.1 General and personal BJW in unemployed individuals
with differing numbers of unsuccessful job applications 200
12.2 Relationship between general and personal BJW and the
self-reported frequency of unfair treatment at the
workplace and in the job search 202
14.1 The prediction of the probability of success in
adolescents’ vocational and social goals 242
Tables

2.1 Personal belief in a just world (BJW) and just family

climate (JFC) of children and their parents 19
3.1 Second-order factor analysis of maternal parenting in
one-parent families 32
3.2 Second-order factor analysis of parenting in intact
families 33
3.3 Regression of general and personal BJW and just family
climate on maternal parenting and family situation 35
3.4 Regression of general and personal BJW and just family
climate on parenting in intact families 37
4.1 Child’s belief in a just world as dependent on parental
concordance of their belief in a just world 54
4.2 Multiple regressions of the child’s belief in a just world
(BJW) on father’s and mother’s belief in a just world 57
5.1 Correlations of justice beliefs with indicators of subjective
well-being and mental health 70
5.2 Correlations of justice beliefs with indicators of an
idealistic world-view 72
5.3 Correlations of justice beliefs with indicators of
socio-political orientation 73
6.1 Correlations between BJW and internal locus of control
in different studies 90
6.2 Study 1: Correlations between belief in a just world,
internal locus of control, optimism, satisfaction with life
and self-esteem 93
6.3 Study 1: Regression from satisfaction with life and
self-esteem on optimism, locus of control and belief in a
just world 93
6.4 Study 2: Correlations between belief in a just world,
optimism, satisfaction with life and self-esteem 94
6.5 Study 2: Multiple regression analysis with optimism and
belief in a just world as predictors and satisfaction with
life and self-esteem as criteria 95
xii Tables
6.6 Study 3: Correlations between belief in a just world,
happiness, interpersonal trust, institutional trust
and perceptions of social justice 96
7.1 Correlations in Study 1 106
7.2 Well-being on gender, extraversion, neuroticism, general
and personal BJW and the interactions of both BJWs with
both personality dimensions in Study 1 108
7.3 Correlations in Study 2 110
7.4 Well-being on gender, extraversion, neuroticism, general
and personal BJW and the interactions of both BJWs with
both personality dimensions in Study 2 110
9.1 Partial correlational analysis: two BJW facets with pupil’s
aims in learning and aspiration levels 143
9.2 Partial correlational analysis: two BJW facets with
achievement-oriented emotions 144
9.3 Partial correlational analysis: two BJW facets with
self-ascribed capacities and learning styles 145
9.4 Partial correlational analysis: two BJW facets with
attributions for success and failure 147
9.5 Partial correlational analysis: two BJW facets with life
satisfaction 148
10.1 Total effects of personal and familial background,
criminal career and personal belief in a just world on
justice judgements and outcome variables 158
10.2 Regression models for justice of trial, moral justification,
feelings of guilt, anger-control, anger-out and prospects
of success in personal goals 160
12.1 Factor structure of the General Belief in a Just World
Scale in employed and unemployed participants 199
12.2 Correlations of the BJW with reactions towards unfair
treatment in the job search (unemployed) and at the
workplace (employed) 203
12.3 Correlations between reactions towards unfair treatment
in the job search, separately for participants low and high
in general and personal BJW 204
12.4 Correlations between reactions towards unfair treatment
at the workplace, separately for participants low and high
in general and personal BJW 205
12.5 Beta weights of perceived unfairness and self-blame in
explaining discontent with unfair treatment in the job
search (unemployed) and at the workplace (employed)
in the groups of participants high and low in personal
BJW 207
 Tables xiii
13.1 Means (M), standard deviations (SD) and bivariate
correlations for BJW and SWB 224
13.2 Regression of SWB on BJW, anticipated fairness at the
workplace, time point, gender and job situation and
their interactions 225
14.1 Means, standard deviations and bivariate correlations 240
Contributors

Vera Cubela Adoric is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Univer-

sity of Zadar, Croatia. Her research focuses on the role of perceived
responsibility and of self- and world-views in reactions to traumatised
and underprivileged people and in coping with negative interpersonal
and life events.
Ludwig Bilz received his diploma in psychology from the Martin Luther
University, Halle-Wittenberg in 2002. He is research assistant at the
Department of Educational Science at the Technical University of
Dresden, Germany. His research interest lies in socialisation and value
transmission. Currently his research is concerned primarily with health
and health behaviours of adolescents.
Isabel Correia is Assistant Professor working at the ISCTE, Lisbon, Portu-
gal. Her research has been concerned primarily with threat to belief in
a just world and secondary victimisation of innocent victims by
observers. Her other interest lies in discrimination and social influence.
Claudia Dalbert is Professor of Psychology at the Martin Luther University,
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research focuses on justice motive
theory. Currently she is investigating the differentiation between an
implicit and a self-attributed justice motive and how the justice motive
develops. Her other interest is concerned with the tolerance of uncer-
tainty.
Dorothea E. Dette is a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology at
the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Her current research
interest concerns the influence of work and family variables on well-
being and life satisfaction in early adulthood, as well as the pursuit of
personal goals and the role of the belief in a just world.
Jozef Dzuka is Assistant Professor of Psychology working at the University
of Presov, Slovakia. His research has been concerned primarily with
motivation. Currently his research is focused on theoretical modelling
and empirical testing of subjective well-being.
 Contributors xv
Elisabeth Kals is Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University of
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. Her main research interests cover social
and educational psychology with a focus on communication, medi-
ation, environmental and health issues.
Jürgen Maes teaches educational, social, tourism and media psychology at
the Department of Educational and Applied Psychology at the Univer-
sity of Trier, Germany. His research aims at understanding the process
of adjustment to societal change, the role of individual justice concep-
tions in social conflicts, and the connection between justice and mental
health.
Kathleen Otto is a PhD student at the Department of Educational Psychol-
ogy at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (dis-
sertation scholarship, state of Saxony-Anhalt). Besides justice beliefs she
is interested in individual and vocational predictors supporting geo-
graphic and job mobility of employed and unemployed people.
Matthias Radant is a psychology student at the Martin Luther University,
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has been collaborating on projects
researching the just world belief and uncertainty tolerance in the
Department of Educational Psychology.
Hedvig Sallay is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of
Debrecen, Hungary. Her research has been concerned primarily with
parenting and its consequences in adolescence. Currently she is exam-
ining different correlates of the just world belief. Her other interest lies
in self- and identity development in adolescence.
Manfred Schmitt is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany. His research interests include social justice,
emotion, empathy, prejudice, helping, depression, moderators of the
consistency among trait indicators, and structural equation models for
multitrait–mulitstate–multimethod data. His current research is
devoted to long-term effects of relative deprivation, justice sensitivity
and the cognitive mechanisms shaping individual differences in justice
behaviour.
Ute Schönpflug is currently adjunct member of the Institute of Cognitive
Science in Boulder, Colorado, USA and book review editor of the
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Her research interests are in cultural
transmission and developmental aspects of text processing.
Joachim Stöber is Scientific Assistant at the Department of Educational
Psychology of the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg,
Germany. His current research is examining personal goals in high
school students and the effects of parental and teacher support on
motivation, prosocial behaviour and well-being.
xvi Contributors
Jorge Vala is Professor of Psychology at ISCTE (Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa), Lisbon, Portugal. His current
research projects analyse the association between perceptions of social
justice and racial discrimination and the social validation of everyday
knowledge.