Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 330-337.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.03.09

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The Impact of Belief in a Just World on College Students' Academic Achievement: The Explanation of Time Management

ZHANG Mei1, HUANG Silin2, SUN ling1, DOU Donghui1   

  1. 1. School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2018-05-15 Published:2018-05-15

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Abstract: In order to investigate the impacts of belief in a just world (BJW) on college students' learning engagement and described the mechanism of the time management factors to the relationship of the two, two studies have been designed. The first study explored the mechanism of how the college students' time management disposition affects the relationship between belief in a just world and academic achievement. A total of 205 college students from different majors were tested by questionnaires. The results indicated that time management disposition partially mediated the relationship between the belief in a just world and college students' academic achievement. In the second study, 120 college students were randomly chosen from different majors to explore the relationship between the belief in a just world and time management using priming paradigm. The results indicated that students who exposure to injustice information distributed less time to study while more time to recreation than those exposure to justice information. In a word, college students' belief in a just world, especially the sense of injustice indeed influences the academic time management and further influences their actual record.

Key words: belief in a just world, academic achievement, time management, time management disposition, college student

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