The Relationship between Belief in a Just World and Depression
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
According to Lerner’s (1965, 1980) just world theory, people are motivated to believe that the world is a just place where everyone gets what they deserve and deserves what they get. Believing in a just world leads people to perceive their physical and social environment as stable and orderly therefore this belief impacts mental health positively. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between depression and just world belief. The sample was consisted of 120 participants 60 of those diagnosed with depression and 60 of those did not diagnosed. Voluntary participants filled out the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Hopelessness Scale, Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale and Dalbert’s Global and Personal Belief in a Just World Scales. The results indicated that depressed participants had weaker personal just world belief than general just world belief whereas this difference was not significant in their nondepressed counterparts. These findings suggest that depression is associated with a gap between general and personal just world beliefs in favor of the general just world belief. It appears that depressive people have tended to perceive the world is more just generally than for them.
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Düzgün Uğur, Serap Akgün
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