Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: Measurement and Location in the Temperamental and Social Skills Space

Strauß, Sophie; Bondü, Rebecca; Roth, Felix

doi:10.1080/00223891.2020.1753754

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“…When using self-reports, mean values were highest for victim and lowest for perpetrator JS (Schmitt et al, 2010;Bondü and Elsner, 2015;Strauß et al, 2020). The first study that used parent reports found the opposite pattern, pointing to influences of social desirability on self-ratings or to particularities of the previous sample (Strauß et al, 2020). Hence, this finding requires replication.…”

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“…The primary affective response is determined by the perspective from which individuals are sensitive to injustice: victim-justice-sensitive individuals tend to feel unjustly treated, respond by anger, and retaliate (Schmitt et al, 2005). Victim JS reflects an egoistic interest in justice and was consistently related to more aggressive and uncooperative and less pro social behavior (Fetchenhauer and Huang, 2004;Gollwitzer et al, 2005;Strauß et al, 2020). Observer-justice-sensitive individuals tend to perceive injustice inflicted onto others, respond by indignation, and wish for victim compensation or perpetrator punishment.…”

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“…Stability rates ranged between 0.5 and 0.6 for all perspectives (Schmitt et al, 2010;. Out of two studies in middle childhood, only one could replicate this factor structure (Ehrhardt-Madapathi et al, 2018;Strauß et al, 2020). Furthermore, retest reliabilities were not yet examined in children.…”

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“…Research established strong measurement invariance (MI) for JS between points of measurement, self-and parent reports, and boys and girls (Schmitt et al, 2010;. Given the differences in mean-level values, the findings of strict MI between self-and parent ratings in middle childhood were surprising, especially because their correlations were small (Strauß et al, 2020). This finding may be due to z-standardization of self-and parent ratings to make them comparable, resulting in the leveling of mean-level differences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research showed that differences in the tendency to perceive and adversely respond to injustice -justice sensitivity (JS) -can be measured from middle childhood onward (Strauß et al, 2020). Some of these findings, however, contrasted findings in older age groups or theoretical assumptions underlying JS and require replication.…”

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Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: A Replication and Extension of Findings

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Kleinfeldt

2021

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Previous research showed justice sensitivity (JS) – the tendency to perceive and negatively respond to injustice as a victim, observer, or perpetrator – to be reliably and validly measurable in middle childhood, but unexpected findings concerning mean values and measurement invariance (MI) require replication, and retest reliabilities, longitudinal relations with prosocial and aggressive behavior, and relations with teacher ratings are currently unknown. This study, therefore, examined mean values, factor structure, retest reliabilities, and MI of self- and parent-rated JS as well as their relations with parent- and teacher-rated prosocial and aggressive behavior and a range of social skills in a sample of 1,329 children between 5 and 12 years of age (first measurement: M = 8.05, SD = 1.02, 51.1% girls). Using self- and parent ratings, we could replicate the intended factor structure of three related yet distinct JS subscales (victim, observer, and perpetrator). We found strong MI between those ratings. Retest reliabilities of parent ratings were similar to older age groups, but lower for self-ratings. All JS perspectives were positively related with theory of mind and empathy, indicating a good understanding of others’ internal states. Victim JS was negatively related to affective and behavioral self-regulation, whereas observer and perpetrator JS showed positive relations. Victim JS negatively and observer and perpetrator JS positively predicted prosocial behavior. The opposite pattern was found regarding aggressive behavior. This study provides additional support that JS can be measured via self- and other reports in childhood and that it may influence behavior early on. It adds to explaining the relations with prosocial and aggressive behavior.

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Section: Justice Sensitivitymentioning

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Section: Justice Sensitivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Justice Sensitivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: A Replication and Extension of Findings

Bondü

Kleinfeldt

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Fair sharing is just caring: Links between justice sensitivity and distributive behavior in middle childhood

Strauß

Bondü²

2023

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Who May Punish How?

Strauß

Bondü

2022

Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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Abstract. According to the intuitive retributivism hypothesis, individuals favor retributivist (getting even) over consequentialist (prevention of norm transgressions) motives when asked to rate the appropriateness of punishment responses representing these motives. This hypothesis has rarely been tested in children; restorative motives (norm clarification, settlement) and potentially influencing variables have rarely been considered. We had 170 elementary school children ( M = 9.26, SD = 1.01) rate the appropriateness of six punishment responses by themselves and teachers for two types of norm transgression as well as their justice sensitivity. Children rated punishment responses thought to represent restorative motives as most appropriate, followed by special preventive and other retributive motives, revenge, general preventive motives, and doing nothing for both themselves and their teachers. Transgression type did not influence appropriateness ratings. Justice sensitivity was related to a stronger tendency to punish. Findings favor intuitive pacifism over intuitive retributivism, indicate children’s preference for target-specific, communicative punishment, and show only small influences by other variables.

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Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: Measurement and Location in the Temperamental and Social Skills Space

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Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: A Replication and Extension of Findings

Justice Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: A Replication and Extension of Findings

Fair sharing is just caring: Links between justice sensitivity and distributive behavior in middle childhood

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