Students' Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

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dc.authoridMunscher, Susan/0000-0003-0049-8630
dc.contributor.authorMuenscher, Susan
dc.contributor.authorDonat, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorKiral Ucar, Gozde
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:57:45Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:57:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractA cross-national study with university students from Germany (n = 1135) and Turkey (n = 634) tested whether personal belief in a just world (PBJW) predicts students' life satisfaction and academic cheating. Based on the just-world theory and empirical findings in the school context, we expected university students with a stronger personal BJW to be more satisfied with their lives and cheat less than those with a weaker BJW. Further, we investigated the mediating role of justice experiences with lecturers and fellow students in these relations. Differences in PBJW directly and indirectly predicted undergraduates' life satisfaction. Students' justice experiences with peers mediated the relationship between PBJW and life satisfaction. Differences in PBJW indirectly predicted undergraduates' academic cheating. Students' justice experiences with lecturers mediated the relationship between PBJW and academic cheating. The results did not differ between German and Turkish students and persisted when we controlled for gender, start of studies, socially desirable responding, general BJW, and self-efficacy. We discussed the importance of personal BJW's adaptive functions and their relevance for international university research and practice.
dc.description.sponsorshipProjekt DEAL
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11211-020-00356-7
dc.identifier.endpage453
dc.identifier.issn0885-7466
dc.identifier.issn1573-6725
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85090197552
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage428
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-020-00356-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/26476
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000565457500001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Justice Research
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectAcademic cheating
dc.subjectLife satisfaction
dc.subjectBelief in a just world
dc.subjectLecturer justice
dc.subjectFellow student justice
dc.titleStudents' Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study
dc.typeArticle

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