出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The belief in a just world is an essential construct for justice from a psychosocial perspective.However, only a few researchers in Brazilian psychology have being interested on this theme. In orderto contribute to this subject, this study aimed at knowing the validity and reliability of the GlobalBelief in a Just World Scale (GJWS), and to verify the importance of gender, age, course, grade level,religiosity degree, marital status and income to account for its scores. This measure presentedoriginally good psychometric properties, besides being of simple and rapid administration.Participants were 254 undergraduate students of a private university from Aracaju (Sergipe), withmean age of 21.8 years (sd = 6.34), most of them female, single, middle-class, attending the courses ofLaw and Psychology. They filled the GJWS – a unifactor brief measure, composed by seven itemsthat assess the beliefs in a just world, rated on a 6-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 = Stronglydisagree to 6 = Strongly agree. The main results showed that the GJWS is a valid and reliableinstrument, and can be used in studies on this theme. The demographic variables didn’t show theexpected importance though. Finally, the limitations of the current research and directions for futurestudies are discussed.
