TY - JOUR
T1 - Sense of justice in school and civic attitudes
AU - Resh, Nura
AU - Sabbagh, Clara
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Contending that justice experiences in school serve as a hidden curriculum that conveys messages about the wider society and impact student attitudes and behavior, we investigate the effects of students' sense of distributive and (school) procedural justice on democratic-related attitudes: liberal democratic orientation (civil rights), social trust and institutional trust. The study was carried out among about 5,000 8th- and 9th-grade students in a national sample of 48 junior high schools in Israel in the 2010-2011 school year. The two-level data-individual and school-were analyzed by the hierarchical linear model (HLM7) program. Findings basically support our hypotheses: sense of distributive instrumental and, especially, of relational justice at school have a positive effect on liberal democratic orientation and on trust in people and in formal institutions. Furthermore, school (aggregate) sense of procedural justice adds to these positive effects and, in the case of democratic orientation, also interacts with instrumental justice and intensifies its effect on this outcome. However, these attitudes are also dependent on sectorial affiliation (Jewish secular, Jewish religious, Israeli-Arab), which explains a considerable portion of between-school variation in student attitudes.
AB - Contending that justice experiences in school serve as a hidden curriculum that conveys messages about the wider society and impact student attitudes and behavior, we investigate the effects of students' sense of distributive and (school) procedural justice on democratic-related attitudes: liberal democratic orientation (civil rights), social trust and institutional trust. The study was carried out among about 5,000 8th- and 9th-grade students in a national sample of 48 junior high schools in Israel in the 2010-2011 school year. The two-level data-individual and school-were analyzed by the hierarchical linear model (HLM7) program. Findings basically support our hypotheses: sense of distributive instrumental and, especially, of relational justice at school have a positive effect on liberal democratic orientation and on trust in people and in formal institutions. Furthermore, school (aggregate) sense of procedural justice adds to these positive effects and, in the case of democratic orientation, also interacts with instrumental justice and intensifies its effect on this outcome. However, these attitudes are also dependent on sectorial affiliation (Jewish secular, Jewish religious, Israeli-Arab), which explains a considerable portion of between-school variation in student attitudes.
KW - Civil rights orientation
KW - Institutional trust
KW - Israel
KW - School
KW - Sense of distributive justice
KW - Sense of procedural justice
KW - Social trust
KW - Students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84896399070&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11218-013-9240-8
DO - 10.1007/s11218-013-9240-8
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AN - SCOPUS:84896399070
SN - 1381-2890
VL - 17
SP - 51
EP - 72
JO - Social Psychology of Education
JF - Social Psychology of Education
IS - 1
ER -