caa a22 4500 606241671 CHVBK 20210128101314.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11211-015-0252-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11211-015-0252-8 Tipping the Scales of Justice: The Influence of Victimization on Belief in a Just World [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Corey, Jordan Troisi, Sarah Nicksa] Previous research has suggested that people have a need to believe in a just world in order to function adaptively, even when negative events occur. However, existing work has not examined how different types of negative events may differentially influence the degree to which people believe the world is just. Drawing data from two waves of a large-scale, nationally representative longitudinal study (Americans' Changing Lives), we propose that two primary types of injustices—major injustices and threshold injustices—should affect belief in a just world (BJW) differently. Major injustices include traumatic events that are overwhelmingly intense and severe (i.e., experiencing the death of a child); threshold injustices are traumatic events that, while difficult and impactful, are less severe (i.e., being attacked, robbed, or burglarized). We expected that major injustices would be associated with higher BJW, whereas threshold injustices would be associated with lower BJW. Results largely confirmed our hypothesized effects both within the waves of data as well as across waves. Implications for BJW theory and the experience of different types of victimization are discussed. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Belief in a just world nationallicence Victimization nationallicence Life events nationallicence Threshold injustice nationallicence Major injustice nationallicence Severity nationallicence Health nationallicence Coping nationallicence Corey Michael Widener University, Chester, PA, USA aut Troisi Jordan Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA aut Nicksa Sarah Widener University, Chester, PA, USA aut Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-12-01), 509-525 0885-7466 28:4<509 2015 28 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0252-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0252-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Corey Michael Widener University, Chester, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Troisi Jordan Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nicksa Sarah Widener University, Chester, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-12-01), 509-525 0885-7466 28:4<509 2015 28 11211