Sensitivity to befallen injustice and reactions to a real life disadvantage
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Schmitt, Manfred
Mohiyeddini, Changiz
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Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral" der Universität Trier, FB I - Psychologie
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Examined the construct validity of a self-report questionnaire for dispositional sensitivity to befallen injustice (SBI). The four subscales of the SBI instrument (frequency, anger, intrusiveness, and punitivity) are described as they relate to an example situation. Internal consistency coefficients, as well as analyses of convergent and discriminant validity, show that SBI is sufficiently different, yet meaningfully related to other important psychological constructs. 57 college students were assessed regarding SBI, attitudes toward principles of distributive justice, belief in a just world (BJW), anger proneness and expression (AX), and self-assertiveness. Later, subjects participated in a lottery to determine teaching resources, and reported their retrospective feelings regarding the procedure. SBI correlated highly with perceived fairness of the lottery procedure, and intrusiveness of thoughts correlated with experienced demotivation. Significant interaction effects between BJW and objective disadvantage on retrospective anger were also observed. Overall, the results support the notion that SBI plays an important role in how persons react to social inequality.
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Date of first publication
1995
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Berichte aus der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral"; 090
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Schmitt, Manfred
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Mohiyeddini, Changiz
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Other kind(s) of contributorArbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral" der Universität Trier, FB I - Psychologiede
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Date of first publication1995
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Abstract / DescriptionExamined the construct validity of a self-report questionnaire for dispositional sensitivity to befallen injustice (SBI). The four subscales of the SBI instrument (frequency, anger, intrusiveness, and punitivity) are described as they relate to an example situation. Internal consistency coefficients, as well as analyses of convergent and discriminant validity, show that SBI is sufficiently different, yet meaningfully related to other important psychological constructs. 57 college students were assessed regarding SBI, attitudes toward principles of distributive justice, belief in a just world (BJW), anger proneness and expression (AX), and self-assertiveness. Later, subjects participated in a lottery to determine teaching resources, and reported their retrospective feelings regarding the procedure. SBI correlated highly with perceived fairness of the lottery procedure, and intrusiveness of thoughts correlated with experienced demotivation. Significant interaction effects between BJW and objective disadvantage on retrospective anger were also observed. Overall, the results support the notion that SBI plays an important role in how persons react to social inequality.en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-1821
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/130
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8765
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Language of contenteng
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Is part ofBerichte aus der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral", Nr. 090, ISSN 1430-1148, http://www.gerechtigkeitsforschung.de/berichte/beri090.pdf
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Is part of seriesBerichte aus der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral"; 090
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Keyword(s)Psychologiede
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TitleSensitivity to befallen injustice and reactions to a real life disadvantageen
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