Perceived Injustice Experience And Sense Of Justice To The Level Of Risk Characteristics

Social justice has become a very prominent development issue in China at present, and it affects the construction of harmonious and just society. So it has very important practical significance to study justice. Based on the systematic account of the relevant theoretical and empirical research of justice, the paper pointed out that there were two uses of the concept of justice, namely state justice and trait justice. Through the theory analysis, this paper came to a conclusion that trait justice refers to individual’s stable psychological tendencies and behavioral characteristics which are on the strength of the concept of justice, and it lays particular emphasis on the tendencies of individual’s behavior when in response to injustice. This study further analyzed the structure of trait justice which including justice sensibility and justice sensitivity. According to role-involving, trait justice was classified into three types: victim sense of justice, observer sense of justice and perpetrator sense of justice. In terms of the two uses of the concept of justice and the meaning, structure and types of trait justice, this paper carried out three sections of empirical studies.The first part of empirical research concentrated on drawing up Trait Justice Questionnaire (TJQ) in a sample of Chinese college students. Based on collection and analysis of the relative literature, the researcher implemented an open-ended question, pre-test and formal test. The results showed that trait justice is a multi-dimensional trait, consisting of perpetrator just consciousness, victim just consciousness, observer just consciousness, behavior responses toward injustice, emotional attitude toward injustice and tendency to perform the just conduction. According to the structure model, we drew up a high reliability and validity scale of trait justice which fits for psychometric rules and can be used to measure individual’s trait justice.The second part of empirical research focused on the effect of experience of injustice and trait justice on risk level. The results showed that experience of injustice gives rise to risk level increasing significantly under the condition of probability of risk is certain or uncertain. The victim sense of justice has a significant effect on risk level under the condition of the experience of injustice.The target of the third part of empirical research was to investigate the effect of state anger and trait justice on risk level when the individual is in the state of anger. The results showed that anger gives rise to risk level increasing significantly and heavy heart gives rise to risk level decreasing significantly under the condition of probability of risk is certain or uncertain. Trait justice has no significant effect on risk level when the individual is in the state of anger.The conclusion of this study was that both experience of injustice and trait justice have significant effect on risk level. Therefore, it’s very necessary for individual whose trait justice is very high or very low to consult. The sixth part of this study discussed the counseling strategies and skills to regulate individual’s trait justice.