In Armut aufgewachsene Kinder glauben weniger an eine gerechte Welt. Der Glaube an eine gerechte Welt bezieht sich auf die psychologische Tendenz zu glauben, dass Menschen im Allgemeinen das bekommen, was sie verdienen, und verdienen, was sie bekommen.
Children raised in poverty are less likely to believe in a just world
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.13028
From the linked article:
**Children raised in poverty are less likely to believe in a just world**
A longitudinal study involving high school students in China found that children raised in poverty tended to hold weaker beliefs in a just world. In contrast, childhood unpredictability was not consistently linked to such beliefs. The paper was published in the Journal of Personality.
**Belief in a just world refers to the psychological tendency to think that people generally get what they deserve and deserve what they get**. This belief can provide a sense of order and predictability in life, helping individuals cope with uncertainty. People with stronger beliefs in a just world often interpret success as the result of hard work and failure as the consequence of personal shortcomings.
If you are a child raised in poverty the children not raised in poverty will tell you that you’re wrong. Wrong about what? Literally anything. You’re wrong about the world. You’re wrong about your own experiences.
People not raised in poverty can’t handle having their concept of what the world is shaken. They fervently need to believe in that fairness.
And it doesn’t stop when they become adults.
This leads to the people with easier lives treating people with difficult lives poorly which is a bit sick.
So they learned the truth about the world early
Children born in an unjust world more likely to experience poverty
they needed to do research on this to figure this out? we are literally seeing a genocide happening where children are the target but they are still taking risks trying to get food for them and their families cause its the only way to survive even though they are constantly being shot at by people who were spoiled as children and are living a much more privileged life than them..its not just a genocide thats happening, but also an elitist, class warfare…..I stopped believing in Karma when i was a kid
It’s much more tragic when people think they deserve their misfortune
Ya know. Prosperity Gospel horseshit
Ive had a pretty good life in many ways. I still don’t believe the world is just. I believe we can and should try to make it more just. But it’s not even close yet.
Another psychology low quality science article. This one is from the Journal of Personality. n = 515. Southeast Chinese High School students.
The only people who believe in a just world are irrational people.
The world is profoundly unjust, and believing it’s just leads you to idolize the wealthy and look down on the poor, the disabled, and the disadvantaged.
In short, it makes you a Republican.
The world is not just, so children raised in poverty see the world as it is?
In other words, “My comparative wealth makes me morally and ethically superior to the less fortunate.”
„I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ‚wouldn’t it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?‘ So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.“ Marcus Cole
So children raised in poverty are less likely to have false beliefs?
I’ve seen similar research before. The richer you are (especially if born that way), the more likely you are to believe that people get what they deserve. Thus you’re more likely to look down on poor people as less deserving of kindness— bad things are happening to them so they must be bad people. This leads to support for what, in America, are conservative policies like no free meals for kids at schools and cutting access to healthcare for the poor. It functions as an excuse to not have empathy for people who are suffering.
the just world is an absolute fairytale
Essentially, children who grow up in poverty are raised to believe that everything is out to get them rather than to understand most of what happens to you is deserved. That makes absolute sense. Their parents likely blame everyone else for all of their own failures and it passes on to the kids who then blame everyone but are never accountable for themselves not realizing they are the reason they are a failure.
As a former child raised in poverty, only clawing my way out after school and subsequent loans were forgiven, I don’t see this as a bad thing. I see it as a head start. Looking back at my more affluent friends and colleagues, they had some hard lessons to learn (and still do) about how the world actually works. Let’s call it what it is… your rose colored glasses come off that much earlier. Fail to see this as an entirely bad thing.
There are people who believe the world is just?
I think there are a lot of ‘scientists’ wasting their time not actually doing scientific work