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PRISONERS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF JUSTICE AND BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD

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Nesterova M., Ruza A.
Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
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2014
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issue 1
81-93
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Studies on justice phenomenon in social psychology have been conducted already more than 60 years and they have multidimensional nature. A great role plays the influence of justice on the formation and development of moral and legal cognition that largely determines individual’s behaviour in the society, its compliance to social norms adapted by the society. Statistical data give evidence about the change for the worse of the criminal situation, as a result of it, increases the number of prisoners. The aim of the present research is to analyze the prisoners’ (n=160, 2010) representations of justice and a just world on the basis of just world hypothesis, as well as to determine the relation between belief in a just world and the perception of court justice, prison justice and personal action justice. During the research several issues were examined: a) whether there is a relation between general and personal belief in a just world and the other parameters of justice; b) what is the level of prisoners’ belief in justice and a just world; c) what are the differences between prisoners’ representations of general and personal belief in a just world, as well as justice of court, prison and personal action. Prisoners’ level of education, criminal experience, subjective satisfaction with life and subjective assessment of belief in justice were analyzed as additional variables.
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ADAPTATION IN LATVIA OF SCALES OF PERSONAL AND GENERAL BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD

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Nesterova M., Ignatjeva S., Ruza A.
Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
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2015
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issue 1
76-86
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Adaptation of PBJW and GBJW scales in Latvia that is connected with linguistic and sociocultural features of their use is revealed in the present article. The analysis of questionnaire’s particular indicators and the structure of factors is made. The aim of the research was to analyze the validity, reliability and standardization facilities of BJW questionnaires. To study the belief in a just world (BJW) Dalbert’s questionnaire (1999) “Personal Belief in a Just World” (PBJW (a=0.72)), and Dalbert, Montada, Schmitt’s questionnaire (1987) “General Belief in a Just World” (GBJW (a=0.65)). For the adaptation procedure of GBJW and PBJW surveys questionnaires of 800 participants were selected from 5 various groups: female prisoners (n=166); male prisoners (n=201); males not put on trial (n=226); English philology students of Daugavpils University (n=98); random law-obedient male and female sample (n=103). Cranach’s Alpha criterion results range from 0.67 to 0.832 that indicates quite high consistence of separate questions of the questionnaire. Two-factor structure verifies the results of the previous researches and suggests that it is necessary to distinguish between general and personal belief in a just world for the researches on the just world. In addition, the results revealed that personal belief in a just world is assessed higher than general one. On the basis of the performed test the linguistically adapted version of the questionnaire can be recommended for usage within various social groups, including both law-obedient respondents, and imprisoned respondents.
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