Study On Sense Of Fairness In Youths:Revising And Application Study Of Just World Scale

In modern day people pay more attention to fair distribution of social resources. The youths as the main force in sociology, social fairness, allocation of resources are quite important to them. According to the fact in youths about "the view of justice", combine with the prospective research orientation and related research at home and abroad, we made our research direction.We revising the scale "Just World Scale for College Students", which organization by Du Jianzheng in2007. We choose this scale because the good reliability and validity, also because the wide spread. At the same time, scale made in Chinese would not be translated wrong compare with an English-made-scale.Scale revised combined prediction and formal test. The number of effective questionnaire is436. By reliability analysis, project analysis, exploratory factor analysis, we remove invalid project and get finally scale. During formal test, people were told to fill Beck-Depression-Scale, so we can investigate the relationship between belief and depression. The formal test won a total of498valid questionnaires.This study reached the following conclusions:1. Just World Scale in youths contains five dimensions:ultimate justice, immanent justice, immanent injustice, transeunt justice, transeunt injustice, a total of21items.2. Scale has good reliability.3. Analysis of scale display that there’re different degrees in gender and education. More women have a higher score, more people with master than with bachelor have a higher score.4. Belief scores were negatively correlated with depression scores:believe the world is fair individual have lower depression level; Lower scores of individual are more likely to experience depression.