title: Altruistic behavior and the bidimensional just world belief.
abstract: Thirty participants were sampled after donating charity to a street beggar and were compared by means of 2 short scales of belief in ajust world for self (BJWS) and belief in a just world for others (BJWO) with 30 randomly selected people who passed the beggar by without donating charity. We assumed that BJWO would be negatively related to altruistic behavior, whereas BJWS would be positively linked with it. A logistic regression analysis introducing BJWS, BJWO, and participants' age and gender as predictors showed that BJWO was negatively related to altruistic behavior, whereas the BJWS tended to be positively associated to it. No effects were observed for age or gender.
authors.affiliation: University of Grenoble. laurent.begue@upmf-grenoble.fr
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bègue
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Charmoillaux
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cochet
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cury
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Suremain
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000533:Altruism; D002608:Charities; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D011336:Probability; D012737:Sex Factors; D012935:Social Justice; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires