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Voluntariness of Association as a Moderator of the Importance of Procedural and Distributive Justice
Author(s) -
Gordon Michael E.,
Fryxell Gerald E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1989.tb01234.x
Subject(s) - voluntariness , moderation , psychology , social psychology , association (psychology) , agency (philosophy) , procedural justice , voluntary association , economic justice , volition (linguistics) , sense of agency , law , epistemology , political science , psychotherapist , philosophy , neuroscience , perception , linguistics
Tyler (1986) proposed that procedural justice was a more important factor in the evaluation of institutions when an individual's association with same was forced or compelled than when the association was voluntary. Unfortunately, Tyler's induction of a moderator effect was based upon questionable interpretations of data, and no deductive attempt was made to explain the phenomenon in theoretical terms. The present study confirmed the moderator effect of voluntariness of association by examining the patterns of correlations between institutional evaluations and procedural justice under two conditions—for members and non‐members of open shop (voluntary association) and agency shop (compelled association) unions. The concept of personal control was used to account for the moderator