One of the pillars of legal socialization theory is how non-legal contexts shape the legitimacy of and compliance with laws. Yet there is little longitudinal evidence establishing the interface mechanism between these spheres. The purpose of this research was to demonstrate how youths’ beliefs in a just world (BJW) can help explain the transmission between the justice of non-legal authorities (parents and schools) and law legitimacy and rule violating behavior (RVB). We utilized two waves of longitudinal data from adolescents at ages 13 and 14 (N = 680) in the São Paulo Legal Socialization Study. Structural equation modeling revealed a good fit to the tested model that parental procedural justice and school justice predict both personal and general BJW, and these predict law legitimacy evaluations 1 year later. General and personal BJW also had an indirect effect on RVB over the following year via law legitimacy. The results suggest that non-legal authorities may influence law legitimacy not through a direct projection (which was not significant), but through an indirect process of worldview construction. Legal socialization and just world belief research can converge to help explain the interface between non-legal and legal spheres of authority.

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正义社会化：正义世界信仰与法律社会化的界面

法律社会化理论的支柱之一是非法律背景如何塑造法律的合法性和遵守法律。然而，几乎没有纵向证据可以建立这些球体之间的界面机制。本研究的目的是展示青少年对公正世界 (BJW) 的信念如何有助于解释非法律当局（父母和学校）的正义与法律合法性和违反规则行为 (RVB) 之间的传递。我们利用了来自 13 岁和 14 岁青少年的两波纵向数据（N= 680) 在圣保罗法律社会化研究中。结构方程模型显示出与测试模型的良好拟合，即父母程序正义和学校正义可预测个人和一般 BJW，并且这些预测 1 年后的法律合法性评估。在接下来的一年里，一般和个人 BJW 也通过法律合法性对 RVB 产生了间接影响。结果表明，非法律权威可能不是通过直接预测（这并不重要），而是通过世界观构建的间接过程来影响法律合法性。法律社会化和公正世界信仰研究可以汇合​​，以帮助解释非法律和法律权威领域之间的界面。