Belief in a just world and its functions for young prisoners

Kathleen Otto; Claudia Dalbert

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.01.004

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Belief in a just world and its functions for young prisoners

Kathleen Otto & Claudia Dalbert (2005)

Published: Dec 1, 2005
Journal: Journal of Research in Personality · Vol. 39 · No. 6
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.01.004

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Examines how belief in a just world serves psychological functions for young prisoners.

SummaryAI

This paper focuses on the psychological construct of belief in a just world in the context of young prisoners. It analyzes what functions this belief may serve for incarcerated youth, highlighting how a justice-related worldview can operate even in highly adverse, unfair environments. The work is useful for understanding coping and meaning-making in correctional settings and for informing interventions that consider inmates’ justice beliefs.

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Empirical study assessing young prisoners’ belief in a just world and relating it to its proposed psychological functions.

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Basic knowledge of personality and social psychology, especially the belief in a just world construct and coping/adaptation concepts.

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The Belief in a Just World

In this collection I gather (mostly) psychological studies devoted to people’s fundamental belief that the world is just. This construct, it seems to me, quite strongly affects our perception of the world and, importantly, our reaction to ongoing events — especially when we start blaming others, guided implicitly by precisely this motive. The collection includes both curated works, which at some point I read carefully and can say something sensible about, and new works being published on the topic.

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