ARE WE LIVING IN A FAIR WORLD? COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CHANGES IN PERCEPTION OF BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AMONG STUDENTS
ARE WE LIVING IN A FAIR WORLD? COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CHANGES IN PERCEPTION OF BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AMONG STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the study was to ascertain the extent to which students' perceptions of the world in which they live and the manner in which resources are allocated evolve over the course of their three-year undergraduate program. To this end, belief in a just world and distributive justice were measured among a sample of 143 students from West University of Timisoara. The Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated that, although the two measures exhibited a positive correlation at the sample level, when each year of study was considered individually, there was no correlation between belief in a just world and distributive justice. The ANOVA analysis demonstrated that students' belief in a just world fluctuates as they progress through the academic years, whereas their perceptions of distributive justice remain relatively stable throughout the undergraduate program.

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