Mono-cultural studies have demonstrated that individual religiosity buffers the negative relationship between perceived injustice and personal well-being. However, it is unclear whether this relationship holds as strongly across societies with varying levels of cultural religiosity. We argue that higher levels of societal religiosity provide a cultural context that reduces pressure on its members to ameliorate societal injustice and consequently attenuates the link between injustice and an individual's satisfaction with life. To test this hypothesis, we assessed representative citizens from 136 societies with varying levels of religiosity, individual perceptions of societal injustice, and satisfaction with life. Using multi-level modeling on responses from 362,340 respondents, while controlling for societal wealth and societal freedom, we found that the relationship between injustice and life satisfaction was pan-societal but also that it was weaker at higher levels of societal religiosity. We explain this attenuation effect by arguing that sociocultural contexts higher in religiosity provide a worldview and set of value priorities that support their members to disengage from concerns about secular affairs and orient their concerns towards transcendent issues, deriving their satisfaction from less worldly pursuits.

单一文化研究表明，个人的宗教信仰可以缓冲人们所感知的不公正与个人福祉之间的负面关系。但是，尚不清楚这种关系在具有不同宗教信仰水平的社会中是否同样牢固。我们认为较高的社会宗教信仰提供了一种文化背景，可以减轻其成员减轻社会不公正的压力，从而削弱不公正与个人对生活的满意度之间的联系。为了检验这一假设，我们评估了来自136个社会的代表性公民，这些社会的宗教信仰水平不同，个人对社会不公正的看法以及对生活的满意度。在控制社会财富和社会自由的同时，对362,340位受访者的回答进行了多级建模，我们发现，不公正与生活满意度之间的关系是全社会的，但在较高的社会宗教信仰水平下，这种关系就较弱。我们通过认为宗教信仰较高的社会文化背景提供了一种世界观和一系列价值优先事项来解释这种衰减效应，这些价值观和价值观优先事项支持其成员摆脱对世俗事务的关注，并将其关注点转移到超越问题上，从而使他们的满足感来自于世俗的追求。