Matthias DonatMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | MLU · Institut für Pädagogik
Matthias Donat
PD Doctor of Psychology
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January 2012 - present
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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In a cross-sectional questionnaire study with N = 1045 German students between 13 and 18 years old (M = 14.1, SD = 0.6), we investigated the relation between students’ cyber-bullying perpetration and victimization and their personal belief in a just world (BJW). We considered students’ individual experience of teacher and classmate justice as possi...
The aim of this study was to investigate concurrent relations of belief in a just world (BJW), justice experiences, and empathy to cyber-bullying perpetration and victimization. Our theoretical framework contained a distinction between personal and general BJW and between affective and cognitive empathy. Due to theory and recent research, we expect...
Bullying is a serious problem around the world, especially among adolescents. Evidence exists that low levels of social perspective-taking as well as belief in a just world played an important role in bullying. Both dispositions function as psychological resources that may help students behave appropriately in social life. Previous research identif...
Belief in a just world (BJW) is theorised to be a universal personality disposition. In this study we contrast this notion with that of Justice Capital, which suggests that BJW varies based on the individual’s justice experience. We achieve this comparison via a psychometric analysis of the BJW scales across cultural and demographic groups. Invaria...
The purpose of this study was to understand the complex relationships between belief in a just world (BJW), perceived control, perceived risk to self and others, and hopelessness among a globally diverse sample during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The just-world hypothesis suggests that people need to believe in a just world in which t...
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g3kF_6CY1KffG
Climate change is a global problem which requires a global response. However, climate change denial in many countries inhibits the ability to respond effectively. This cross-cultural correlational study investigates some global, cultural, and personal predictors of climate change denial. The sample inc...
People possess a pre-conscious need to believe in the existence of justice in the world. This belief in a just world (BJW) is usually measured with self-report scales. Dalbert et al., Psychologische Beitrage, 29(4), 596–615 (1987) and Dalbert, Social Justice Research, 12(2), 79–98 (1999) have developed the general belief in a just world (GBJW) and...
Climate change denial (CCD) is a social attitude that expresses skepticism or unwarranted doubt about the scientific fact of climate change, including its consequences for people, society, nature as a whole and its individual species, as well as the possibility of adaptation to it through human efforts. Climate change is one of the global threats t...
Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert die Skalenanalysen des Projekts „Cyber-Bullying, Perspektivübernahme und Gerechte-Welt-Glaube (CyPeG)“, welches 2020 von der Abteilung für Pädagogische Psychologie an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Kooperation mit der Abteilung für Psychologie von der Fachhochschule des Mittelstands in Hannove...
People possess a pre-conscious need to believe in the existence of justice in the world. This belief in a just world (BJW) is usually measured with self-report scales. Dalbert et al. (1987) and Dalbert (1999) have developed the general belief in a just world (GBJW) and personal belief in a just world (PBJW) scales as psychometrically robust measure...
Research over the past decade has begun to map the various psychological benefits associated with the personal belief in a just world (PBJW). This symposium will consist of four papers covering recent research on a number of these benefits. The papers fall into two broad categories. First, the association between PBJW and wellbeing, and how a sense...
Aus früheren Studien ist bekannt, dass Jugendliche mit Erfahrung in Bullying-Prozessen deut-lich mehr Risikoverhalten, Internalisierungsprobleme und weniger wahrgenommene soziale Unterstützung berichten als Jugendliche ohne diese Erfahrung. Basierend auf einem Diathese-Stress-Modell bezüglich Bullying-Erfahrung erwarteten wir, dass das Geschlecht d...
A cross-national study with university students from Germany (n=1135) and Tur- key (n=634) tested whether personal belief in a just world (PBJW) predicts stu- dents’ life satisfaction and academic cheating. Based on the just-world theory and empirical findings in the school context, we expected university students with a stronger personal BJW to be...
Knapp ein Drittel der Heranwachsenden weltweit scheint von
Bullying betroffen zu sein. Dabei gibt es deutliche regionale
Unterschiede. Verschiedene Bullying-Erfahrungen können auch
mit Variationen in der von Heranwachsenden subjektiv erlebten
Gerechtigkeit einhergehen.
(Praxis Schulpsychologie, Ausgabe 24, S. 4-6)
https://www.praxis-schulpsycho...
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Wolgast, A. & Donat, M. (im Druck). Psychische Gesundheit bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Folgen von Bullying - ein internationaler Überblick. In, V. Scherenberg & J. Pundt, Themenband: Psychische Gesundheit wirksam stärken – aber wie? Bremen: APOLLON University Press.
In a cross-sectional study with N = 627 individuals (Mage = 22.8, SDage = 7.3, 147 males, 480 females, 106 non-religious, 456 religious), we investigated personal belief in a just world (BJW) as a resource for undergraduates’ subjective well-being and expected a positive relation between both constructs due to recent studies. We not only aimed at r...
Previous studies suggested adolescents' bullying experiences to be related to risk behaviors, internalizing problems and less perceived social support. Swearer and Hymel (2015) proposed a diathesis-stress model regarding bullying experiences. We expected the diathesis variable adolescent's sex, and the stressors bullying perpetrator or victimizatio...
In a cross-sectional questionnaire study with N = 2593 German students, aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.1, SD = 0.5), we investigated the relation between students’ personal belief in a just world (BJW) and their victimization in bullying situations. According to the just-world theory and research, we expected that the more strongly the studen...
In a cross-sectional questionnaire study with N = 1658 German students, aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.1, SD = 0.5), we investigated the relation of students’ personal belief in a just world (BJW) to their school absenteeism and functions of school refusal behavior. In accordance with recent studies which identified negative relations between...
In two cross-sectional questionnaire studies with N = 2,931 German students, aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.1, SD = 0.5), we investigated the relation between students’ bullying behavior and their personal belief in a just world (BJW). We considered students’ personal experience of teacher justice as a possible mediator in this relation and i...
In a questionnaire study, Russian versions of the General and Personal belief in a just world (BJW) Scales were validated. Results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Personal BJW Scale could be empirically differentiated from the General BJW Scale; however, both scales correlated positively. Good internal consistencie...
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In two experiments we investigated the relation between implicit justice motive and quality of decisions in complex justice-specific situations. According to Unconscious-Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006), people make better complex decisions when thinking unconsciously than when thinking consciously...
Objective: In order to verify the methodological quality of two versions of a tool for measuring attitudes towards interprofessional learning, we adapted – in terms of translation and scale form – the Heidelberg Version [1] of Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale - RIPLS [2], a methodologically controversial tool that had been translated...
Die Persönlichkeit eines Menschen wird durch individuelle Muster von mehr oder minder stabilen und unterschiedlich globalen Eigenschaften beschrieben. Mit dem Terminus Schülerpersönlichkeit wird das Wechselspiel zwischen Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und Schulfaktoren angesprochen (Pekrun, 1983). Diesen schulbezogenen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen wollen w...
In two cross-sectional questionnaire studies with N = 1792 German and Indian students, aged between 12 and 17 years, we investigated the relation between personal belief in a just world (BJW) and positive as well as negative dimensions of school-specific well-being. Furthermore, we considered students’ personal experience of teacher justice as poss...
According to just world research, people need to believe that they live in a world in which everyone gets what they deserve and deserves what they get. This belief in a just world is conceptualized as an interindividually varying disposition and has important adaptive functions. The stronger this belief is, the more people trust in justice and the...
http://www.erzwiss.uni-halle.de/gliederung/paed/ppsych/bericht12.pdf
The more people believe in a just world (BJW) in which they get what they deserve, the more they are motivated to preserve a just world by ones’ just behavior. Consequently, we expected school students with a strong BJW to show less deviant behavior as cheating or delinquency. The mediating role of teacher justice was also examined. Questionnaire d...
Im vorliegenden Kapitel stellen wir die beiden wesentlichen Grundlagen dieses Buches vor, den inhaltsorientieren Ansatz der Gerechtigkeitspsychologie, der nach dem ,Was' der Gerechtigkeit fragt, sowie den motivationalen Ansatz, der das menschliche Streben nach Gerechtigkeit in den Mittelpunkt stellt.
In the chapter on hand, we introduce the two es...
Dieses Kapitel thematisiert das Sozialverhalten von Schülerinnen insbesondere in Form von Bullying-Verhalten und verdeutlicht, dass neben dem Glauben an eine für sie persönlich gerechte Welt vor allem die durch die Schülerinnen subjektiv erlebte Gerechtigkeit des LehrerInnenverhaltens zur Erklärung des Bullying-Verhaltens der Schülerinnen beitragen...
Gerechtigkeit ist ein Begriff, der wie kein zweiter zur Charakterisierung von Interaktionsprozessen und Ergebnissen zwischenmenschlicher Interaktionen verwendet wird. Sie gilt als leitendes Prinzip menschlichen Zusammenlebens (Schwan, 2008) und kann als eine Art Bindemittel verstanden werden, das maßgeblich zur Funktionsfähigkeit von Organisationen...
Unter schulischem Sozialverhalten wird alles Verhalten im Umgang von SchülerInnen miteinander, aber auch das Verhalten von SchülerInnen gegenüber ihren LehrerInnen verstanden. In der Sozialpsychologie findet sich eine Trennung von pro- und antisozialem Verhalten, wobei prosoziales Verhalten das Ziel hat, einem anderen Menschen etwas Gutes zu tun. A...
The relation between school students' belief in a just world (BJW) and their bullying behavior was investigated in a questionnaire study. The mediating role of teacher justice was also examined. Data were obtained from a total of N = 458 German and Indian high school students. Regression analyses revealed that the more strongly students believed in...
Menschen besitzen Melvin J. Lerner zufolge das Bedürfnis, an eine gerechte Welt zu glauben, einen Ort also, an dem jeder bekommt, was er verdient, und jedem auch zusteht, was er erhält. Das menschliche Streben nach Gerechtigkeit, so Claudia Dalbert, kann auf einer intuitiven und einer kontrollierten Ebene operieren. Um diese Dissoziation zu belegen...
http://www.erzwiss.uni-halle.de/gliederung/paed/ppsych/bericht11.pdf
http://www.erzwiss.uni-halle.de/gliederung/paed/ppsych/bericht10.pdf
Zur Messung des Copings der Bullies wurden 12 Items vorgelegt, die Bagatellisierung, Beschuldigung des Opfers, Vermeidung von Rumination, Vertrauen in Gerechtigkeit und Motivation, gerecht zu handeln, als Copingdimensionen beschrieben. Das Messinstrument erfasst, wie Täter selbst mit ihrem schikanierenden Verhalten umgehen.
Zur Messung des Copings der Opfer wurden 12 Items vorgelegt, die Bagatellisierung, Selbstbeschuldigung, Vermeidung von Rumination, Vertrauen in Gerechtigkeit und Vergebung als Copingdimensionen beschrieben. Das Messinstrument erfasst, wie Opfer mit ihren Viktimisierungserfahrungen umgehen.
Die Coping-Skala für Bystander besteht aus 12 Items und enthält die Subskalen Bagatellisierung, Beschuldigung des Opfers, Vermeidung von Rumination, Vertrauen in Gerechtigkeit und Motivation, gerecht zu handeln. Das Messinstrument erfasst, wie Bystander mit ihren Beobachtungen von Bullying umgehen.
