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Demographic correlates of just world and unjust beliefs in an Austrian sample
Adrian Furnham1, Viren Swami, Martin Voracek
1Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, United Kingdom. a.furnham@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
320 Viennese adult participants (47.5% female) in a population sample completed two questionnaires measuring just world beliefs that were scored separately for just and unjust world beliefs. The study aimed to investigate the role of sex and age, as well as religious and political beliefs on just and unjust world beliefs. Older males who identified with a more left-wing political orientation tended to have lower scores on just world beliefs on Rubin and Peplau's scale, while better educated people tended to score lower on the unjust world subscale on both scales, although both predictors explained less than 6% of the variance in scores.
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