Measurement of Two-dimension Justice Belief: Retribution and Balance

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.567How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Justice belief; retribution justice belief; system balance justice belief; justice perception

Abstract

Living in an unpredictable and uncontrollable unjust world would be unbearably threatening, so people prefer to believe that the social system is fair, legitimate, and justifiable. To explore the connotation of justice belief, several methods are used. First, 30 participants from various vocations are interviewed to clarify the concept. Second, the scale of justice belief is developed; exploratory factor analysis is conducted with 300 participants. Third, to evaluate the reliability and validity, retest, confirmatory factor analysis and scale of justice perception are conduct with 150 participants. Results show that, justice belief is composed by two dimensions, which are retribution justice belief (RJB) and balance justice belief (BJB). RJB means believing that the outcomes are fair and just. BJB means believing that the whole social system is balance. The scale presents good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, convergent validity and discriminant validity.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - S. Tao
AU  - C.C. Yuan
AU  - Y. Xu
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Measurement of Two-dimension Justice Belief: Retribution and Balance
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2231
EP  - 2234
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.567
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