The world is more just for me than generally: About the personal belief in a just world scale's validity

Social Justice Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-98

  Dalbert, Claudia ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fairness; Just world belief; Self esteem; Self perception; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002342388     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022091609047     Document Type: Article

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