System Justification Scale (General + Economic).
SJS
The tendency to defend, bolster, and rationalise the existing social, economic, and political order as fair, legitimate, and desirable (general system justification; economic system justification; gender-specific system justification)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- General SJ = 8 items; Economic SJ = 17 items (Jost & Thompson); brief 8-item general form most used. agreement Likert (e.g. 1-7 / 1-9) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated and used cross-nationally (e.g. ES, DE, HU, ZH, and others) in political and social psychology
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Kay, A. C., & Jost, J. T. (2003). Complementary justice: Effects of poor but happy and poor but honest stereotype exemplars on system justification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(5), 823-837.
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