Self-esteem and outcome fairness: Differential importance of procedural and outcome considerations.
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Applied Psychology
- Vol. 86 (4) , 621-628
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.86.4.621
Abstract
Results of a survey of 222 detainees in Dutch jails and police stations showed that outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with high self-esteem were more strongly related to outcome considerations than to procedural considerations, whereas outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with low self-esteem were more strongly related to procedural considerations than to outcome considerations. It was proposed that these differences were due to the fact that (a) procedures more strongly express a social evaluation than outcomes and (b) individuals with low self-esteem are more concerned with social evaluations than individuals with high self-esteem. The implications of the results for other individual-differences factors and other populations than detainees are discussed.Keywords
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