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Just World Beliefs in Twelve Societies
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Nearly 1,700 psychology students from 12 countries completed the Rubin and Peplau (1973) Just World Beliefs Scale, which measures the extent to which people believe the world is just or unjust. There were large and predicted differences for both the just and unjust world components of the scale, which were analyzed separately. However, there were few sex differences within each society. Rank-ordered just world and unjust world scores correlated significantly with two of the cultural dimensions (power-distance and individualism) that were found by Hofstede (1984).
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“This pattern of just-world motivation has been primarily documented in Western cultures, with some cross-cultural samples (e.g.Chobthamkit et al., 2022;Furnham, 1993;Grimes et al., 2015;Kaplan, 2012), as part of general motivational systems in secular participants.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Furnham, A.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Furnham, Adrian
- ORCID
- Furnham, Adrian
- Venue
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1993-06
- Volume
- 133
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 317-329
- ISSN
- 0022-4545 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-1183
- OpenAlex
- W2017349258
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 11.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- belief in a just world, cross-cultural comparison, cultural dimensions, power distance, individualism, Hofstede, sex differences
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