DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE:
PERSONALITY VARIABLES AND SITUATIONAL VARIABLES
Abstract
This research investigates the influence of personality variables
and situational variables on the social behavior of justice, specifically,
on the preference for certain norms of distributive justice in a situation
of reward allocation. The personality factors singled out for study are
rationality/emotionality, need for achievement and need for affiliation. On
the other hand, the situational variables refer to interpersonal relations associated
to the functioning of groups, such as suggested by Deutsch. The
results, obtained with 267 undergraduate students, give empirical support
to Deutsch's hypotheses, according to which the nature of social relations
and that of the main objectives that govern the group behaviour determine
the choice of the value base of justice which regulates the allocation of goods and social conditions among the members of the group. However,
only a few indications were found insofar as an eventual association between
certain personality variables and allocation behavior.
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