The Justice Motive as a Personal Resource: Dealing with Challenges and Critical Life Events

By C. Dalbert. 2001

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1. C. Dalbert
2. K. Otto
3. Joachim Stoeber
4. J. Džuka
5. Laurent Bègue
6. C. Hafer
7. M. Wu
8. Ethan A. McMahan

Citations in the corpus

• Belief in a just world and its functions for young prisoners (2005, methodology): “Because BJW serves important adaptive purposes, individuals are motivated to defend this belief in the face of threat (e.g. Lerner & Miller, 1978; Dalbert, 2001).”
• The personal belief in a just world and domain-specific beliefs about justice at school and in the family: A longitudinal study with adolescents (2006, unknown): “Additionally, it was the personal BJW and not the general BJW that correlated with school grades (Dalbert, 2001).”
• Victim Blaming Others (2013, background): “Having a high JWB-self allows victims to engage in more adaptive causal attributions, as opposed to engaging in personal blame (Dalbert, 2001).”
• Posttraumatic symptoms, depression, and anxiety of flood victims: The impact of the belief in a just world (2006, background): “Overall, just world research has identified three functions of the BJW (Dalbert, 2001): (a) It is indicative of a personal contract and the obligation to behave fairly; (b) it endows individuals with the confidence that they will be treated fairly by others and will not fall victim to an unforeseeab”
• General Belief in A Just World and Resilience: Evidence from A Collectivistic Culture (2011, background): “However, recent studies reveal that BJW, as a double-edged sword, is the personal resource when dealing with challenges (Dalbert, 2001).”
• Bad apples in bad barrels revisited: Cognitive moral development, just world beliefs, rewards, and ethical decision-making (2006, unknown): “Lerner (1980, 1981) and, more recently, Dalbert (2001) argue that BJW is rooted in social learning processes that occur over a long period of time where justice is seen to play a central role in culture and in the lives of individuals.”
• Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “For example, well-being has been found to be associated with religious beliefs (e.g., Myers and Diener 1995; Pargament 1997), beliefs about justice (e.g., Dalbert 2001; Furnham 2003), and world benevolence beliefs (Poulin and Silver 2008).”
• Belief in a Just World (2015, background): “correlation between the personal just world belief and school achievement (Dalbert, 2001; Dalbert & Stoeber, 2005, 2006), and self-rated performance at work (Otto & Schmidt, 2007).”
• Belief in a just world, justice concerns, and well-being at Portuguese schools (2007, unknown): “After more than 40 years of just world research, three functions of the belief in a just world (BJW) can be identified (Dalbert, 2001).”
• Fictional Narratives Cultivate Just‐World Beliefs (2008, background): “It is positively related to life satisfaction for both people with and without recent experiences of victimization (Dalbert, 2001).”