General Belief in A Just World and Resilience: Evidence from A Collectivistic Culture

Wu, Michael; Yan, Xiaodan; Zhou, Chan; Chen, Yiwen; Li, Juan; Zhu, Zhuohong; Shen, Xiangqin; Han, Bo

doi:10.1002/per.807

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“…Nevertheless, we consider this study as an important step towards the reconceptualization of the functions of PBJW and GBJW, at least in Western societies (for a reconceptualization of BJW in China, see Wu et al, 2011, Wu et al, 2013. This study also highlights the importance of considering the victimization situations in the social context and the social groups in which they actually occur.…”

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The legitimation of wife abuse among women: The impact of belief in a just world and gender identification

Correia

Alves

Morais

et al. 2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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confidence: 89%

The legitimation of wife abuse among women: The impact of belief in a just world and gender identification

Correia

Alves

Morais

et al. 2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Consistent with that possibility, we found that acceptance of death prior to the loss was negatively associated with two symptoms at both 6 and 18 months post-loss: feeling disbelief or emotional numbness and a feeling that life is empty or meaningless. Similarly, beliefs in a just world, which may aid in the persistence of hope that the world retains meaning despite personal tragedies (Wu et al, 2011), were negatively associated with feelings that life is empty or meaningless at 6 months post-loss.…”

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confidence: 99%

Network analysis of persistent complex bereavement disorder in conjugally bereaved adults.

Robinaugh

LeBlanc

Vuletich

et al. 2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) is a bereavement-specific syndrome characterized by prolonged and impairing grief. Most research on this syndrome rests on the traditional latent variable model whereby symptoms reflect an underlying entity. The network (or causal system) approach offers an alternative framework for understanding PCBD that does not suffer from limitations inherent in the latent entity approach. The network approach to psychopathology conceptualizes the relation between symptoms and disorder as mereological, not reflective. That is, symptoms do not reflect an inferred, unobservable category or dimension, but rather are themselves constitutive of the disorder. Accordingly, we propose that PCBD constitutes a causal system of mutually reinforcing symptoms that arise following the death of a loved one and settle into a pathological equilibrium. In this study, we used data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) database to identify symptoms central to PCBD, distinguish the PCBD network from an overlapping but distinct network of depression symptoms, and examine how previously identified risk factors may contribute to the maintenance or development of PCBD. Together, these findings provide an important first step toward understanding the nature and etiology of the PCBD network.

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“…Future research will also be needed to consider the potential for additional nuance in linking justice to stress reactivity. For example, beliefs about justice for others might be associated with stress responses in other cultural contexts, or with cognitive and biological stress responses that were not presently considered (for related research, Wu et al, 2011). …”

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A preliminary experimental examination of worldview verification, perceived racism, and stress reactivity in African Americans.

Lucas¹,

Lumley²,

Flack³

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Health Psychology

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Objective According to worldview verification theory, inconsistencies between lived experiences and worldviews are psychologically threatening. These inconsistencies may be key determinants of stress processes that influence cardiovascular health disparities. This preliminary examination considers how experiencing injustice can affect perceived racism and biological stress reactivity among African Americans. Guided by worldview verification theory, it was hypothesized that responses to receiving an unfair outcome would be moderated by fairness of the accompanying decision process, and that this effect would further depend on the consistency of the decision process with preexisting justice beliefs. Method A sample of 118 healthy African American adults completed baseline measures of justice beliefs, followed by a laboratory-based social-evaluative stressor task. Two randomized fairness manipulations were implemented during the task: participants were given either high or low levels of distributive (outcome) and procedural (decision process) justice. Glucocorticoid (cortisol) and inflammatory (C-reactive protein) biological responses were measured in oral fluids, and attributions of racism were also measured. Results The hypothesized 3-way interaction was generally obtained. Among African Americans with a strong belief in justice, perceived racism, cortisol and C-reactive protein responses to low distributive justice were higher when procedural justice was low. Among African Americans with a weak belief in justice however, these responses were higher when a low level of distributive justice was coupled with high procedural justice. Conclusions Biological and psychological processes that contribute to cardiovascular health disparities are affected by consistency between individual-level and contextual justice factors.

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General Belief in A Just World and Resilience: Evidence from A Collectivistic Culture

Cited by 75 publications

References 88 publications

The legitimation of wife abuse among women: The impact of belief in a just world and gender identification

The legitimation of wife abuse among women: The impact of belief in a just world and gender identification

Network analysis of persistent complex bereavement disorder in conjugally bereaved adults.

A preliminary experimental examination of worldview verification, perceived racism, and stress reactivity in African Americans.

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