Adolescents' Cheating and Delinquent Behavior from a Justice-Psychological Perspective: The Role of Teacher Justice

Autor/inn/en	Donat, Matthias; Dalbert, Claudia; Kamble, Shanmukh Vasant
Titel	Adolescents' Cheating and Delinquent Behavior from a Justice-Psychological Perspective: The Role of Teacher Justice
Quelle	In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 29 (2014) 4, S.635-651 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-2928
DOI	10.1007/s10212-014-0218-5
Schlagwörter	Cheating; Delinquency; Questionnaires; Indians; Foreign Countries; High School Students; Cultural Context; Cross Cultural Studies; Neurosis; Gender Differences; Regression (Statistics); Justice; Student Attitudes; Antisocial Behavior; Role; Teacher Behavior; Teacher Student Relationship; Correlation; Student Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prellen; Kriminalität; Fragebogen; Inder; Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Neurose; Geschlechterkonflikt; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Gerechtigkeit; Schülerverhalten; Rollen; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Korrelation; Student behaviour; Deutschland
Abstract	The more people believe in a just world (BJW) in which they get what they deserve, the more they are motivated to preserve a just world by ones' just behavior. Consequently, we expected school students with a strong BJW to show less deviant behavior as cheating or delinquency. The mediating role of teacher justice was also examined. Questionnaire data were obtained from a total of N?=?382 German and Indian high school students. Regression analyses revealed that the stronger students' BJW was, the less cheating and delinquent behavior they reported. Moreover, the more the students believed in a just world, the more they evaluated their teachers' behavior toward them personally to be just, and the experience of teacher justice fully mediated the relation between BJW and cheating and delinquency, respectively. This pattern of results was in line with our hypotheses and consistent across different cultural contexts. It persisted when neuroticism and sex were controlled. The adaptive functions of BJW and implications for future school research are discussed. (As Provided).
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