Adolescents' cheating and delinquent behavior from a justice-psychological perspective: The role of teacher justice.

Autor/inn/en	Donat, Matthias; Dalbert, Claudia; Kamble, Shanmukh Vasant
Titel	Adolescents' cheating and delinquent behavior from a justice-psychological perspective: The role of teacher justice. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Mogeln und delinquentes Verhalten bei Jugendlichen aus einer gerechtigkeitspsychologischen Sicht: Die Rolle der Lehrergerechtigkeit.
Quelle	In: European journal of psychology of education, 29 (2014) 4, S. 635-651Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-2928; 1878-5174
DOI	10.1007/s10212-014-0218-5
Schlagwörter	Einstellung (Psychologie); Sekundarbereich; Lehrer; Schüler; Schülerin; Täuschung; Gerechtigkeit; Jugendkriminalität
Abstract	The more people believe in a just world (BJW) in which they get what they deserve, the more they are motivated to preserve a just world by ones' just behavior. Consequently, it was expected that school students with a strong BJW would show less deviant behavior as cheating or delinquency. The mediating role of teacher justice was also examined. Questionnaire data were obtained from a total of N = 382 German and Indian high school students. Regression analyses revealed that the stronger students' BJW was, the less cheating and delinquent behavior they reported. Moreover, the more the students believed in a just world, the more they evaluated their teachers' behavior toward them personally to be just, and the experience of teacher justice fully mediated the relation between BJW and cheating and delinquency, respectively. This pattern of results was in line with the hypotheses and consistent across different cultural contexts. It persisted when neuroticism and sex were controlled. The adaptive functions of BJW and implications for future school research are discussed. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2026/3