Belief in a Just World Scale: Adaptation and validation in Argentina using CFA

BARREIRO, ALICIA VIVIANA

Estambul

Congreso; 12th European Congress of Psychology; 2011

European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations

The Just World Belief (JWB), referred to people get what deserve, has been studied during several decades from a descriptive psychometric approach (Lerner, 2003). Among the different techniques that had been designed to evaluate the JWB the mostly used was the Biel in a Just World (Ruby & Pepalu, 1975). However, different authors have questioned its validity (Furnham, 2003). This study presents a first approach to the validation of the BJWS (Rubin & Peplau, 1975) in Argentinean context using SEM. The sample was incidental, stratified, with proportional allocation and composed of 20-35 years-old students (n=205).The utilized techniques were descriptive, correlations, SEM, among others. The result is a 8 item scale with adequate psychometric properties supporting the underlying construct (CFA: all index between.969–.991; SRMR=.026; CRONBACH'S ALPHA=.703). Future research should increase sample sizes and scope in terms of representativeness.