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Distributive and procedural justice in seven nations.

E S Cohn1, S O White, J Sanders

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA.

Law and Human Behavior
|October 12, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Distributive justice, focusing on deservingness, significantly impacts fairness judgments across diverse cultures. Procedural justice elements like impartiality and voice also play roles, though their importance varies by context.

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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior

Background:

  • Distributive justice and procedural justice are key components of fairness perceptions.
  • Understanding these justice perceptions is crucial in legal and employment contexts.
  • Cross-cultural variations in justice perceptions remain an area of active research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of distributive justice (deservingness, need) and procedural justice (impartiality, voice) on judgments of fairness.
  • To test the differential importance of these justice factors across two distinct legal/employment scenarios.
  • To examine potential cultural differences in justice perceptions between Central/Eastern European and Western respondents.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental design using two vignettes: job appeal and employment agency.

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  • Manipulation of distributive justice factors (deservingness, need) and procedural justice factors (impartiality, voice).
  • Cross-cultural comparison of justice judgments in seven countries: Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Spain, and the United States.

    • Main Results:

    • Distributive justice, particularly deservingness, was consistently important across vignettes and cultures.
    • Procedural justice factors showed context-dependent importance: impartiality in job appeals, voice in employment agency seeking.
    • The cultural hypothesis regarding differences between Central/Eastern European and Western respondents was not supported.

    Conclusions:

    • Deservingness is a robust predictor of fairness judgments, supporting the distributive justice hypothesis.
    • Procedural justice elements are important, but their salience is contingent on the specific situational context.
    • Justice perceptions in these employment-related scenarios do not appear to be significantly shaped by recent socialist history or broad East-West cultural divides.