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And justice for all: Revisiting the Global Belief in a Just World Scale

Brandon Reich & Xin Wang (2015)

Published
May 1, 2015
Journal
Personality and Individual Differences · Vol. 78
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.031
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At a GlanceAI

Revisits and evaluates the Global Belief in a Just World Scale as a measure of people’s belief that the world is fair.

SummaryAI

This article revisits the Global Belief in a Just World (BJW) Scale, a widely used tool for assessing how strongly people think the world is generally fair. By re-examining the scale’s measurement properties, it aims to clarify how well the instrument captures global just-world beliefs and how it should be interpreted in research. The work is useful for researchers who rely on BJW scores to predict attitudes and behavior, because conclusions about “justice beliefs” depend on having a sound and well-understood measure.

Method SnapshotAI

Psychometric re-analysis of an existing self-report scale using survey data.

BackgroundAI

Basic knowledge of belief in a just world theory and introductory psychometrics (reliability/validity and factor structure).

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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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