Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fetchenhauer, Detlef
• Jacobs, Gabriele
• Belschak, Frank

Titel

Belief in a Just World, Causal Attributions, and Adjustment to Sexual Violence

Ist Teil von

• Social justice research, 2005-03, Vol.18 (1), p.25-42

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer Nature B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What influence do the personal belief in a just world (i.e., the perception that one usually gets what one deserves) and different kinds of causal attributions have on adjustment to sexual violence? Using a sample of N = 62 victims of sexual aggression (mean age = 21.7) it was shown that respondents were better able to adjust to their experience of sexual violence the higher their personal belief in a just world. Moreover, the more respondents attributed their victimization to situational circumstances (external attributions) and the less they attributed their victimization to their character and personality (characterological self-attributions), the less they felt distressed by past victimization. The degree to which participants attributed their victimization to their own concrete behavior (behavioral self-attribution) was not related to their adjustment. Further analyses showed that the influence of the personal belief in a just world was mediated by the three attribution styles. Additionally, the adaptiveness of external attributions was moderated by participants' just world belief.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]