Drawing on justice motive theory (Lerner et al. in Berkowitz and Walster (eds) Advances in experimental social psychology. Academic Press, New York, 1976), in the present work we examine belief in a just world as an underlying (latent) factor, reflected in general and personal beliefs. We first conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 51 articles, 76 samples, 19 countries and 23,900 participants, which revealed a positive association between the two forms of belief in a just world across studies (meta-analytic r = .52 [95% CI = .48, .56], p < .001) and within each of the individual samples. These results suggest that general and personal belief in a just world could be treated as joint indicators of a latent belief in a just world factor. In a second study, an online sample of participants (n = 311 participants, 54% women, M_age = 37.78 years) completed measures of general and personal belief in a just world, which we treated as indicators of latent belief in a just world. Measures of subjective well-being and psychological well-being were treated as indicators of latent well-being. Indicators loaded strongly on their respective latent factors, and the latent factors were strongly positively correlated (r = .74, p < .001). These results suggest that the link between belief in a just world and well-being may be even more substantial than has been previously recognized. In accordance with the original conceptualization of belief in a just world in justice motive theory, our results suggest benefits to examining the shared and unique aspects of general and personal beliefs in a just world.

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正义世界中信仰的潜在因素方法及其与幸福感的关系

借鉴正义动机理论（Lerner等人，Berkowitz和Walster（eds）实验社会心理学的进展。纽约，学术出版社，1976年），在当前的工作中，我们考察了将正义世界作为潜在（潜在）因素的信念。 ，反映在一般和个人信念上。我们首先进行了一项荟萃分析，涵盖51篇文章，76个样本，19个国家和23900名参与者，这些研究揭示了公正的两种信念形式在研究中存在正相关（元分析r  = .52 [95％CI = .48，.56]，p <.001），并且在每个单独的样本内。这些结果表明，对正义世界的一般和个人信仰可以被视为对正义世界因素的潜在信仰的联合指标。在第二项研究中，在线参与者样本（n  = 311名参与者，54％的女性，M_年龄 = 37.78岁）完成了对公正世界的一般和个人信仰的衡量，我们将其视为对公正世界的潜在信仰的指标。主观幸福感和心理幸福感的量度被视为潜在幸福感的指标。指标在其各自的潜在因子上有很强的负载，并且潜在因子与正相关性 极强（r = .74，p <.001）。这些结果表明，对正义世界的信念与幸福之间的联系可能比以前认识到的更为重要。根据正义动机理论对正义世界的信念的原始概念化，我们的结果表明，检查正义世界中一般和个人信念的共同和独特方面会有所帮助。