Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 282-287.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.03.04

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Relationship between Belief in a Just World and Social Responsibility among Undergraduate Students: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust and the Gender Difference

YI Mei1, TIAN Yuan1, MING Hua1, HUANG Silin1, XIN Ziqiang2   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081
  • Published:2019-06-19

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Abstract: Social responsibility is a relatively stable quality referring to assuming social responsibility or helping others. For undergraduate students, social responsibility was considered to be the effective indicator of a series of positive psychology and behaviors. In this study, 852 college students from 6 universities in China were investigated to examine the mediating effect of interpersonal trust and the moderating role of gender between belief in a just world and social responsibility. The results showed:(1) The belief in a just world was significantly positively related to the sense of social responsibility; (2) The relationship between belief in a just world and social responsibility was mediated by interpersonal trust. However, the mediating effect of interpersonal trust is mainly found among male undergraduate students, but not among female undergraduate students. This meant that the belief in a just world belief could predict male undergraduate students' sense of social responsibility, and interpersonal trust was the intermediary bridge between the relationship.

Key words: belief in a just world, interpersonal trust, social responsibility, gender difference, undergraduate student

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