Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world.
BACKGROUND: The human ability to envision the future, that is, to take a future perspective (FP), plays a key role in the justice motive and its function in transcending disadvantages and misfortunes. The present research investigated whether individual (Study 1) and situational (Study 2) difference...
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| author | Michael Shengtao Wu Robbie M Sutton Xiaodan Yan Chan Zhou Yiwen Chen Zhuohong Zhu Buxin Han |
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| description | BACKGROUND: The human ability to envision the future, that is, to take a future perspective (FP), plays a key role in the justice motive and its function in transcending disadvantages and misfortunes. The present research investigated whether individual (Study 1) and situational (Study 2) differences in FP moderated the association of general belief in a just world (GBJW) with psychological resilience. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We investigated FP, GBJW, and resilience in sample of adolescents (n = 223) and disaster survivors (n = 218) in China. In Study 1, adolescents revealed stronger GBJW than PBJW, and GBJW uniquely predicted resilience in the daily lives of those with high FP (but not those with low FP). In Study 2, natural priming of FP (vs. no FP) facilitated the association of GBJW with resilience after disaster. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Supporting predictions, participants endorsed GBJW more strongly than PBJW. Further, GBJW interacted with FP in both studies, such that there was an association between GBJW and resilience at high but not low levels of FP. The results corroborate recent findings suggesting that GBJW may be more psychologically adaptive than PBJW among some populations. They also confirm that focusing on the future is an important aspect of the adaptive function of just-world beliefs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d0c5e9ef537146ceb8fb6b70a0db72612022-12-21T21:43:32ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-01811e8066810.1371/journal.pone.0080668Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world.Michael Shengtao WuRobbie M SuttonXiaodan YanChan ZhouYiwen ChenZhuohong ZhuBuxin HanBACKGROUND: The human ability to envision the future, that is, to take a future perspective (FP), plays a key role in the justice motive and its function in transcending disadvantages and misfortunes. The present research investigated whether individual (Study 1) and situational (Study 2) differences in FP moderated the association of general belief in a just world (GBJW) with psychological resilience. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We investigated FP, GBJW, and resilience in sample of adolescents (n = 223) and disaster survivors (n = 218) in China. In Study 1, adolescents revealed stronger GBJW than PBJW, and GBJW uniquely predicted resilience in the daily lives of those with high FP (but not those with low FP). In Study 2, natural priming of FP (vs. no FP) facilitated the association of GBJW with resilience after disaster. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Supporting predictions, participants endorsed GBJW more strongly than PBJW. Further, GBJW interacted with FP in both studies, such that there was an association between GBJW and resilience at high but not low levels of FP. The results corroborate recent findings suggesting that GBJW may be more psychologically adaptive than PBJW among some populations. They also confirm that focusing on the future is an important aspect of the adaptive function of just-world beliefs.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3842919?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Michael Shengtao Wu Robbie M Sutton Xiaodan Yan Chan Zhou Yiwen Chen Zhuohong Zhu Buxin Han Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. PLoS ONE |
| title | Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. |
| title_full | Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. |
| title_fullStr | Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. |
| title_short | Time frame and justice motive: future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world. |
| title_sort | time frame and justice motive future perspective moderates the adaptive function of general belief in a just world |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3842919?pdf=render |
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