Open AccessNeki tipovi valjanosti i pouzdanosti dviju skala vjerovanja u pravedan svijet
Author(s) -
Vera Ćubela,
Ana Proroković,
Ljiljana Gregov
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
radovi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2806-8432
pISSN - 0352-6798
DOI - 10.15291/radovifpsp.2511
Subject(s) - psychology , religiosity , just world hypothesis , life satisfaction , neuroticism , locus of control , social psychology , scale (ratio) , authoritarianism , personality , geography , political science , cartography , politics , law , democracy
Almost three decades of research on individual differences in the Belief in a Just World (BJW) provided strong evidence of their relationship with measurements of a number of other constructs such as authoritarianism, religiosity, locus of control, attitudes toward (under)privileged, neuroticism, life satisfaction and other indicators of well-being. This paper presents some psychometric characteristics of the General BJW scale (Dalbert et al., 1987) and the Personal BJW scale (Dalbert, 1993) that were established in their first administration to a group of 206 students at the Faculty of Science and Arts in Zadar. Both scales were found to be reliable, one-factor measures of two relatively separated aspects of the BJW. Consistently with findings at previous studies, the level of endorsement of BJW statements in our study was significantly higher for the Personal than the General BJW scale. The analysis of BJW scales correlations with the ratings of different aspects of life satisfaction, as measured by the Quality of Life scale (Krizmanić and Kolesarić, 1992), supported lite assumption that the BJW (especially in the personal domain) is a significant contributor in explaining the variance of life satisfaction ratings.