Who would accept to bear some responsibility for an unfair pay? The moderating role of personal and general just-world beliefs

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serval:BIB_39790CC566E5
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Title
Who would accept to bear some responsibility for an unfair pay? The moderating role of personal and general just-world beliefs
Title of the conference
15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research, june 19-22, 2014, New-York City : [conference program]
Author(s)
Bollmann G.
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Published
Issued date
2014
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Oui
Language
english
Abstract
Previous justice research examined how and why people attribute responsibility of aversive outcomes to others. Yet, sometimes people accept their own share of responsibility for these outcomes, be it judicious or not. Extending recent research examining how justice affects the relation between outcomes and internal attributions of responsibility, I focus on distributive justice and the role of just‐world beliefs. In a first online experiment, participants (N = 108) were more likely to accept responsibility for an unfavorable pay when this latter was fairly rather than unfairly allocated. Moreover just‐world beliefs moderated this relation: it was stronger for those with a high rather than a low personal just‐world belief and weaker for those with a high rather than a low general just‐world belief. This remained the case after controlling for perceptions of the supervisor's responsibility. Distributive justice and outcome favorability were then manipulated in second online experiment (N = 156). Just‐world beliefs again moderated the relation between
distributive justice and participants' internal attributions. Moreover, both interactions remained significant after controlling for participants' perceived favorability of the decision, their perceptions of the supervisor's responsibility and their feeling of decision latitude over others. We discuss implications of our findings for organizational justice theories and elaborate on the many facets of responsibility feelings.
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