A Latent Factor Approach to Belief in a Just World and its Association with Well-Being

A Latent Factor Approach to Belief in a Just World and its Association with Well-Being

Drawing on justice motive theory (Lerner et al. in Berkowitz and Walster (eds) Advances in experimental social psychology. Academic Press, New York, 1976 ), in the present work we examine belief in a just world as an underlying (latent) factor, reflected in general and personal beliefs. We first con...

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Veröffentlicht in:Social justice research 2020-03, Vol.33 (1), p.1-17
Hauptverfasser: Hafer, Carolyn L., Busseri, Michael A., Rubel, Alicia N., Drolet, Caroline E., Cherrington, Jennifer N.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Anthropology
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Concept formation
Experimental psychology
Internet
Just world beliefs
Justice
Meta-analysis
Personality and Social Psychology
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychological well being
Psychology
Social justice
Social Policy
Social psychology
Sociology
Systematic review
Well being
Women
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on justice motive theory (Lerner et al. in Berkowitz and Walster (eds) Advances in experimental social psychology. Academic Press, New York, 1976 ), in the present work we examine belief in a just world as an underlying (latent) factor, reflected in general and personal beliefs. We first conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 51 articles, 76 samples, 19 countries and 23,900 participants, which revealed a positive association between the two forms of belief in a just world across studies (meta-analytic r  = .52 [95% CI = .48, .56], p  
ISSN:0885-7466
1573-6725
DOI:10.1007/s11211-019-00342-8