Just-world attribution: The stimulus-variable impact on college students' process of attribution and meaning making

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muthumbi wa Kimani ◽  
Terri Weaver
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Just World ◽  
Stimulus Variable ◽  
Variable Impact

REACTIONS TO VICTIMS OF CRIME: SYMPATHY, DEFENSIVE ATTRIBUTION, AND THE JUST WORLD

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Ross Gold ◽  
Pamela G. Landerman ◽  
Kathryn Wold Bullock
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Reaction Pattern ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Just World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Low Probability ◽  
Victims Of Crime

Two studies were conducted that explored observers' perceptions of the responsibility of a victim for her involvement in a premeditated crime. Male and female college students listened to tapes of a purported victim describing a crime (either a rape or a mugging). Severity of crime was manipulated by having some of the crimes described as unsuccessful attempts and others as successful ones. There was a general tendency toward what we have called a sympathetic reaction pattern, that is, for victims to be assigned less responsibility the more severe the crime. This effect was strongest among those individuals who believed they had a low probability of encountering a fate similar to that of the victim. Those individuals who believed they had a high probability of encountering a fate similar to the victim's tended to make defensive attributions.

Individual and Social Correlates of the Just World Belief: A Study of Taiwanese College Students

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Chen Ma ◽  
Kevin B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Scale Score ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Just World ◽  
Social Correlates ◽  
Just World Belief ◽  
Subjective Social Class

This paper reports the results of a study to identify empirically the nature and correlates of the Just World Belief among Taiwanese college students. Data were collected from over 1,000 students enrolled in two major Taiwanese universities. Similar to Western findings, the average Just World Scale score fell almost exactly at the midpoint of the acceptance-rejection attitudinal continuum. Also similar to Western findings were strong correlations between belief scores and scores on work ethic and alienation scales. In contrast to many Western studies, weak correlations were found for belief scores with authoritarianism, sex, religiosity, subjective social class location, and parents' education. Cross-cultural measurement problems and interpretations are also presented.

scholarly journals Belief in a Just World and Moral Personality as Mediating Roles Between Parenting Emotional Warmth and Internet Altruistic Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Yumeng Xia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Just World ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Moral Personality ◽  
Total Influence

This study explores the influence of parental emotional warmth (PEW) on college students’ Internet altruistic behavior (IAB), and the mediating roles of personal belief in a just world (PBJW) and positive moral personality traits (PMPT). A total of 893 college students were assessed using questionnaires. Results: (1) PEW, PBJW, PMPT, and IAB are positively correlated with each other; (2) PEW can directly predict the IAB of college students; and (3) PEW can indirectly predict IAB through the mediating effect of PMPT and PBJW-PMPT. PBJW and PMPT account for 22.79% of the total influence of PEW on IAB.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Anxiety on Mobile Phone Addiction: The Buff-er Effect of Belief in a Fair World

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuyang Lv
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Just World ◽  
Just World Belief ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Belief Scale ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Using the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale, Social Anxiety Scale and Justice World Belief Scale, this paper investigated 647 college students in a university in Hubei Province, and investigated the influence of social anxiety of college students on mobile phone addiction and the moderating effect of justice world belief in it. The results show that: (1) there is a significant positive correlation between social anxiety and cell phone addiction among college students; (2) just world belief plays a regulating role in the relationship between social anxiety and cell phone addiction. with the improvement of just world belief, the relationship between social anxiety and cell phone addiction gradually weakens and eventually disappears.</p>

Building a just world: the effects of service-learning on social justice beliefs of Chinese college students

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulan Li ◽  
Meilin Yao ◽  
Fengning Song ◽  
Jin Fu ◽  
Xiulin Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Just World ◽  
Chinese College Students

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REACTIONS TO FEMALE VICTIMS

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl E. Drout ◽  
Samuel L. Gaertner
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Just World ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Male College ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship of gender and level of belief in the just world to reactions to victims. Eighty-six female and sixty-five male college students were led to believe that their partner in a study of work groups was a victim of a sexual assault. A gender difference in the choice of specific justice-restoring strategies was observed. While high just-world males provided significantly more help to victims than controls and low just-world males did not differentiate, female subjects distanced themselves from victims by perceiving them to be less similar to themselves than controls. Findings are discussed in relation to evidence that attempts to restore justice may evoke a multitude of cognitive and behavioral responses.

General Belief in a Just World, Moral Disengagement, and Helping Propensity in Emergencies

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1923-1936
Author(s):  
Xia Li ◽  
Han Lu ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Panhua Zhu ◽  
Jianxin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Just World ◽  
Internal Attribution ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
External Attribution ◽  
Emergency Scenarios

We used the theory of belief in a just world (BJW) to systematically examine how general BJW influences decision making about helping in emergency situations involving different attributions. Participants were 740 college students who completed a survey measuring general BJW, moral disengagement, and propensity to help in emergency scenarios. Results showed that both general BJW and attribution scenario type influenced emergency helping. Furthermore, general BJW moderated the magnitude of the effect of victim attribution on helping, playing a stronger role in negatively predicting helping propensity in an obscure attribution scenario than in drunken (internal attribution) or accident (external attribution) scenarios. Moral disengagement mediated the effect of general BJW on helping only in the obscure attribution scenario. These findings provide further empirical evidence for BJW theory, accounting for some situations involving immoral decision making, as well as clarifying where and how general BJW influences the propensity to help.

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